Context
For a European financial group active in private banking, asset management and investment banking, we are looking for a Database Reliability Engineer / DBA DevOps & IaC.
As part of the infrastructure's transformation towards a DevOps model, the DBA team is strengthening its skills to build an automated platform covering the entire database lifecycle: deployment, provisioning, monitoring, resilience, maintenance and operations.
The assignment combines a strong contribution to the industrialization of infrastructure services with level 2 and 3 operations and support responsibilities on production environments.
The main database management systems involved are:
•Microsoft SQL Server: approximately 70%
•Oracle: approximately 25%
•PostgreSQL: approximately 5%
Main responsibilities
The Database Reliability Engineer will notably work on the following activities:
•Automate database deployment, updates, patching and maintenance using CI/CD pipelines
•Design and implement standardized provisioning mechanisms for SQL Server, Oracle and PostgreSQL
•Develop and maintain internal pipelines and automation tools
•Contribute to implementing an Everything as Code approach, based on GitOps, Infrastructure as Code and DevOps practices
•Define and promote best practices regarding reliability, availability, performance and security of database environments
•Participate in designing high availability, backup, restoration and disaster recovery strategies
•Strengthen database observability through log management, metrics, dashboards and alerts
•Act as N2/N3 expert on critical production incidents
•Perform tuning, auditing, diagnostics and migration operations
•Document operating procedures, resolution methods and technical standards
•Monitor technological developments and propose continuous improvement areas
•Support IT teams in adopting database services through an automated platform
Technical environment
Databases
•Microsoft SQL Server
•Oracle
•PostgreSQL
•High availability, replication, backup and restoration
•Performance optimization and analysis
•Containerized databases and Kubernetes operators
DevOps and automation
•GitOps
•CI/CD
•GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD or equivalent tools
•Terraform
•Ansible
•Helm
•Python
•Bash
•PowerShell
•Declarative approaches and Infrastructure as Code
Observability and operations
•Prometheus
•Grafana
•ELK or equivalent solution
•Monitoring, alerting and log management
•SRE practices and service reliability
Assignment terms
•Type of assignment: Run activity and infrastructure transformation
•Estimated duration: 12 months
•Desired start date: November 2026
•Location: La Défense
•Remote work: 2 days per week
•On-site presence: 3 days per week
•International travel: approximately 3 days per quarter with the DBA team based in Tunis
Profile sought
Higher education in computer science, software engineering, information systems or an equivalent field, with at least 8 years of experience in database administration, notably on Microsoft SQL Server.
You may come from one of the following backgrounds:
•Experienced production DBA who has moved towards automation, DevOps and Infrastructure as Code
•Database Reliability Engineer or SRE specialized in database environments
•SQL Server and Oracle DBA who has participated in large-scale industrialization projects
Significant experience in large, heterogeneous and highly industrialized database environments is expected. Experience in N2/N3 production support is essential.
Expected skills
You master at least two of the following three technologies, in order of priority:
•Microsoft SQL Server
•Oracle
•PostgreSQL
You also have solid skills in the following areas:
•Design and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines
•Automation of DBA operations
•Terraform, Ansible or equivalent tools
•Scripting in Python, Bash or PowerShell
•High availability, replication, performance and resilience
•Monitoring and observability
•Containerization and Kubernetes
•Production incident management
•Technical documentation and procedure formalization
Personal qualities
•Very good written and oral communication skills in French and English
•Autonomy in managing technical topics and small projects
•Ability to work with DBA, DevOps, Cloud, Security and Production teams
•Team spirit and interpersonal ease
•Diplomacy and persuasive ability
•Intellectual curiosity
•Pragmatism and continuous improvement orientation
•Ability to support teams in adopting new practices and tools
Contract details
•Contract type: Freelance / Contract
•Daily rate: 650
•This offer has 0% commission
•Location: Paris, France
•Work mode: Hybrid
