Senior DevOps Engineer - PostgreSQL Platform

About the role

Erste Digital, part of Erste Group, the largest banking group in Central and Eastern Europe, is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with strong PostgreSQL experience. The role improves the reliability, automation and evolution of the database platform and infrastructure ecosystem, combining DevOps, platform engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) across mission-critical production environments.

Key responsibilities

• 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.
• Standardise and automate platform operations across environments, focusing 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 optimise PostgreSQL environments, including high availability, replication, backup, recovery and disaster recovery.
• Improve observability, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, logging and metrics using tools such as Grafana.
• Contribute to technical roadmaps, documentation, knowledge sharing and mentoring, and adopt DevOps, SRE and platform engineering practices.

Required profile

• At least 7 years of recent experience in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE or infrastructure engineering roles.
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience operating production-critical environments.
• Strong Linux/Unix administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Fluent English; German, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, GitOps, Grafana, Zabbix, Patroni, open-source infrastructure, hybrid cloud or large enterprise environments are preferred.

Required skills

• Infrastructure automation and infrastructure as code with Terraform and Ansible.
• Scripting with Python and Bash.
• Active PostgreSQL administration and production operations, including high availability, replication, backup and recovery, and performance tuning.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, incident management, SLAs/SLOs and reliability engineering.

What we offer

• A competitive, performance-related salary, with the legal minimum of EUR 3,000 gross per month quoted for this full-time position.
• International community, interest groups and clubs.
• Medical examination, helpline and salary compensation during sick leave.
• Sabbatical, paternity leave, extra holiday, contributions to the third pillar and a MultiSport card.
• Employee referral program.