Position: Junior Database Engineer (Postgres)
Company: Raiffeisen Bank
Experience required: 1y

About project:

You will be a part of Platform team. Platform is an umbrella for units like:
— Network reliability engineering: How to cook networking in DC? How to meet SLA 99.0 for all network services? Build hybrid links? Establish VPN with EU region? — just a routine questions for guys
— Data center reliability engineering: Hardware, SAN, Hypervisors, Backups, Hybrid Clouds, PaaS are all about these guys
— Data base reliability engineering: Here we’re talking about Oracle, Postgres and a bit of Sybase. Perform second day operations like: backups, monitoring, upgrades, etc. To meet highest SLA ever for our databases guys jumps “behind the scenes” of development kitchen and helps with performance bottlenecks and application issues
— Platform operations: Here we’re cooking IaC, Configuration management on top of *nix systems (We have more than 2k VMs BTW). Gitlab, Sonarqube, tomcats, ansible, monitoring are just 10% of tech words from this area.
— Project “Codename”: This is unit is about cutting-edge technologies (we’re fans of cloud-native landscape), rapid SDLC, engineering culture, and microservices which are replacing “legacy” systems

The team committed to delivering reliable platform services for customers who are: developers, devops, QA. We’re tech heart of Raiffeisen Ukraine and everybody expects that heat is operating normally :)

The DBRE team is responsible for the provision, maintenance, troubleshooting and support of all databases across platform used twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

What to do:
- Involved in new and existing service design discussions and recommend reliable, secure, performance optimized database offerings based on business requirements.
- Ensure all databases in the AWS and On-prem are configured for performance, scale and high availability.
- Optimize query performance and communicate with developers regarding service optimization.
- Ensure all key databases have deep insight monitoring.
- Perform regular database maintenance and ensure databases are backed up according to agreed RTO / RPO information.
- Perform: Provisioning, deployment, configuration, and monitoring using automation tools like Ansible, Terraform.
- Ability to provide technical system solutions, determine overall design direction and provide hardware recommendations for complex technical issues.
- Maintenance work to be planned meticulously to minimize/eradicate self-inflicted P1 outages.
- Provide support for the operation teams 24/7 — on-call in off-work hours only for critical issues.
- Ensure security considerations are at the forefront when designing and managing database solutions.
- Maintain documentation regarding DB services.

What we need:
- Good level in OS and service troubleshooting.
- Good level SQL, PL/pgSQL, including stored procedures, functions, triggers, and views.
- Base level in knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery and streaming replication solutions.
- Base knowledge of monitoring systems like: Zabbix, Nagios, Prometheus.

Nice to know:
- Base knowledge of IaC and Config Management tools like: Ansible and terraform.
- Basic understanding of containers and Kubernetes.

What we offer:
- You will work in a large international company that provides possibilities for professional and personal growth
- Involvement into challenging, large-scale and diverse projects which have impact for our customers
- Become a part of a highly professional and successful team with an international company culture
- Knowledge sharing with colleagues from abroad strong IT community including 14 Raiffeisen Group Banks
- Flexible working hours, 28 days of paid vacation, official employment, distant work possible
- Attractive social package and well-being health insurance, gym
- Corporate English courses, soft skills trainings at our corporate L&D academy
- Team building activities and involvement into social projects