Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Open Source Databases

Advertised Category: 
Infrastructure & DevOps & Cloud
Category Description: 
Information Technology\Infrastructure & DevOps & Cloud
Level: 
Permanent
Country: 
Slovakia
City: 
Bratislava
Keywords: 
PostgreSQL, AWS, GCP, SRE
Salary: 
2700-4500 EUR/m (upon seniority)

About the Client

Our client is a provider of IT solutions, systems, hardware and software services in banking sector. It operates data centres, bank systems, POS terminals and HW (servers and PC) and is responsible for development, implementation, support and servicing of banking software and its operations in Central and Eastern Europe.

About the Role

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with PostgreSQL and cloud database experience to support reliable, secure, and scalable database services. In this role, you will work across database administration, cloud operations, and reliability engineering to help maintain PostgreSQL services in AWS and Google Cloud environments. You will contribute to automation, monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement while working with database, platform, and application teams.

Responsibilities

Administer PostgreSQL databases across development, testing, and production environments.
Perform database configuration, patching, upgrades, backups, and recovery activities.
Monitor database health, availability, performance, capacity, and resource utilization.
Troubleshoot database issues and support incident resolution, root cause analysis, and problem management.
Support database security, access management, auditing, and compliance-related tasks.
Support high availability and disaster recovery solutions for PostgreSQL platforms.
Create and maintain scripts, automation, and Infrastructure as Code practices to reduce manual work.
Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability across AWS and Google Cloud environments.

Requirements

Active experience in recent 2-4 years of administering PostgreSQL databases, cloud database services, or infrastructure platforms in production environments.
Knowledge of PostgreSQL administration, backup and recovery, performance tuning, and database operations.
Experience writing and troubleshooting SQL queries.
Experience with managed database services in AWS and/or Google Cloud.
Understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking, storage, security, high availability, and disaster recovery concepts.
Experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Python, or similar, plus basic Linux/Unix administration knowledge.
Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, automation tools, DevOps practices, and CI/CD concepts.

Nice to Have Skills

Preferred: experience with AWS RDS for PostgreSQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or cloud migration initiatives.

How to apply
In case of your interest to apply for this position, please, send us your curriculum vitae in English language on ladislav.zakalicky@sourcefirstinternational.com .
Mission statement

Our mission is to offer variety of matching jobs to qualified candidates and fulfil our client recruitment and project needs. We have decided to operate and source in Eastern European countries.

Contact us

Klariská 14, 811 03 Bratislava, Slovakia
Lidická 700/19, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

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