Senior DevOps Engineer – Oracle Platform

About the role

Erste Digital, part of Erste Group, is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with strong Oracle expertise to improve the reliability, automation and evolution of its enterprise database platform and infrastructure ecosystem. The role combines DevOps, platform engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and works closely with infrastructure, application, cloud, security and database teams.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain automation for Oracle platform and infrastructure operations using Terraform, Ansible, Python and Bash.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation and self-service operational tooling.
• Drive platform engineering and DevOps practices, with reusable automation and standardized processes.
• Improve reliability, availability, scalability and operational efficiency of Oracle platform services.
• Lead incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions, and improve runbooks and operational standards.
• Support highly available Oracle environments (Oracle RAC, Data Guard, RMAN), including performance troubleshooting, patching, upgrades, migrations, backup and recovery.
• Strengthen resiliency through disaster recovery validation, resiliency testing, capacity planning and SLA/SLO improvements.
• Improve observability, monitoring, dashboards, alerting, metrics and logs using Grafana and Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM).
• Guide engineers, contribute to technical roadmaps and support knowledge sharing and adoption of DevOps and SRE practices.

Required profile

• Recent active experience in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE or infrastructure engineering in business-critical environments.
• Good practical understanding of Oracle database operations, including RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, patching and upgrades; no need to be a traditional Oracle DBA.
• Fluent English.

Required skills

• Terraform and Ansible, with CI/CD pipeline and deployment automation experience.
• Solid understanding of observability (metrics, logs, dashboards, alerting); Grafana and OEM are advantageous.
• Advantageous: Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP, enterprise storage/backup, open-source infrastructure or hybrid cloud.

What we offer

• Legal minimum wage of EUR 3,000 gross per month for this full-time position, with a performance-related salary.
• Medical examination, helpline and salary compensation during sick leave.
• Sabbatical, paternity leave, extra holiday, 3rd pillar contribution and MultiSport card.
• Interest groups, clubs and an employee referral program.