About the role
We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with Oracle Database platform experience to support reliable, secure, and scalable database services. In this role, you will work across database administration, platform operations, and reliability engineering. You will help improve automation, monitoring, incident response, and operational practices for mission-critical Oracle database environments.
What to do
•Administer Oracle databases across development, testing, and production environments.
•Support database configuration, patching, upgrades, backup, recovery, security, access management, and compliance-related activities.
•Monitor database health, availability, performance, capacity, and resource utilization.
•Troubleshoot database-related issues and participate in incident resolution, root cause analysis, and problem management.
•Support high availability and disaster recovery solutions using Oracle RAC and Data Guard.
•Create and maintain scripts and automation for operational and administration tasks.
•Contribute to monitoring, logging, alerting, observability, and operational visibility for Oracle database platforms.
•Collaborate with database, platform, and application teams to improve reliability, resilience, and operational efficiency.
You check these boxes
•Active experience in recent 2-4 years of administering Oracle databases or supporting enterprise database platforms in production environments.
•Knowledge of Oracle database administration, backup and recovery, performance tuning, and database operations.
•Experience writing and troubleshooting SQL and PL/SQL.
•Experience with Oracle technologies such as RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, and Oracle Enterprise Manager.
•Understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, database resilience, database security, access controls, and auditing.
•Experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Python, or similar.
•Basic Linux or Unix administration knowledge and familiarity with infrastructure, storage, and networking fundamentals.
•Preferred: experience with Oracle Exadata, Oracle Multitenant, OCI, AWS, GCP, Terraform, Ansible, or database migration and modernization initiatives.
Professional Skills
•Builds reliable systems and thinks ahead about what can go wrong, making sure things keep working and improve over time.
•Takes ownership of work from start to finish and works closely with others to get the right outcome for the user.
•Keeps things simple, focuses on what matters, and removes unnecessary steps or complexity.
•Acts quickly on the most important work, adapts when needed, and learns from feedback.
•Supports others, leads by example, and helps create an environment where people can do their best work.
•Learns fast, adjusts easily to change, and keeps improving in a fast-moving environment.
•Delivers strong results and helps raise the level of the whole team.
•Contributes to a positive team culture by being open, respectful, and constructive, and by not tolerating toxic behavior.
Why you will like us
•Possibility to benefit and learn from our international, talented and passionate community at Erste.
•Interest groups and clubs: take part in discussions and get involved in projects. Numerous interest groups invite you to engage with a topic.
•Health Care – we contribute to your above standard medical examination and provide a helpline in case of hard lifetime situations. You also receive a salary compensation during sick leave.
•Work-Life-Balance – Sabbatical, paternity leave, contribution to marriage & childbirth, 4 days of extra holiday per year, contribution to the 3rd pillar and MultiSport card.
•Employee Referral Program – become a talent scout for career opportunities in IT; every successful referral for Erste Digital is rewarded.
•A competitive and performance-related salary dependent on your professional and personal qualifications is granted. We are obliged by law to quote the minimum wage of EUR 2.700,- gross per month for this full time position, but we are happy to discuss your actual expectations.
