Senior DevOps Engineer - PostgreSQL Platform (Open Source) (all humans)

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We are part of Erste Group – the largest banking group in Central and Eastern Europe with more than 2,500 branches and over 45,000 employees. Our more than 2,000 IT experts and enthusiasts are the bank's Digital Muscle.

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with strong PostgreSQL experience to improve the reliability, automation, and evolution of our database platform and infrastructure ecosystem.

This role focuses on DevOps, platform engineering, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), with PostgreSQL expertise as an important part of the broader platform landscape. You will support automation, infrastructure reliability, observability, CI/CD enablement, and operational excellence across mission-critical production environments.

You will work closely with infrastructure, application, cloud, and database engineering teams to design scalable operational solutions, improve platform resilience, and modernize operations through automation and engineering best practices.

What to do

• Design, implement, and maintain automation for infrastructure and PostgreSQL platform operations using Terraform, Ansible, Python, and Bash.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and operational tooling.
• Standardize and automate platform operations across environments, with a focus on scalability, resilience, and self-service.
• Own the reliability, availability, and operational stability of production platform services.
• Lead incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and long-term corrective actions.
• Operate and optimize PostgreSQL environments, including high-availability, replication, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery setups.
• Improve observability, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, logging, metrics, and operational analytics using tools such as Grafana.
• Contribute to technical roadmaps, documentation, knowledge sharing, mentoring, and adoption of DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering practices.