Database reliability engineer (m/w)

Job summary

This role supports the reliability, security, and lifecycle management of database platforms across heterogeneous production environments. Responsibilities include database observability and troubleshooting, security hardening and data protection, and lifecycle work such as patching, upgrades, backup and restore validation, and capacity planning. The technology scope includes SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MariaDB/MySQL, MongoDB, CouchDB, Redis, Kafka, and deployments on virtual machines or container platforms.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of experience in a lead position.
• At least 1 year of infrastructure automation experience.
• At least 2 years running PostgreSQL, MariaDB, or SQL Server, preferably in a large production environment.
• At least 1 year using an object-oriented programming language in a software engineering role.
• Hands-on experience as a database administrator, database engineer, platform engineer, or database reliability engineer.
• Experience with at least two listed database or data infrastructure technologies.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools.
• Strong SQL knowledge.
• Strong written and spoken English; French is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Improve database observability with monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and troubleshooting tools.
• Support security hardening, vulnerability remediation, access reviews, auditability, and compliance-related database activities.
• Support database-level data protection, including encryption, data minimization, pseudonymization, anonymization, retention, and controlled deletion.
• Support database lifecycle activities, including configuration reviews, patching, upgrades, backup and restore validation, capacity planning, and decommissioning.

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