Database System Engineer (f/m/d)

Area of work:

Deutsche Börse Group is a financial services provider covering the full value chain of trading, clearing, settlement and market data for stocks and derivatives. Our global success is based on our highly integrated and automated IT solutions that form the core of Deutsche Börse and allow companies and investors accessing global capital markets. More than a thousand of employees implement IT strategies through technological applications grouped in several key Sections, thereby ensuring the competitiveness of the entire Group.

For our Section "Energy IT”, we are looking for a dedicated Database System Engineer with DevOps experience to contribute to the development and operations of critical infrastructure for 24/7 services in agile working environment.

Your responsibilities:

• Creating, tuning, and managing databases running on a variety of engines (MySQL, MariaDB, PSSQL,Oracle)
• Working within the Engineering team to create and improve automation processes with Ansible for database administration
• Ensuring secure, performant, and resilient database systems for 24/7 productive ecosystems
• Designing migration strategies for databases for critical tech migration and datacenter migration projects (LogShipping, Replication, Failover, Clustering, Active/Active etc.)
• Daily operation of mission critical database infrastructure
• Implementing security baselines and proactively looking to strengthen security posture on database systems
• Proposing new methods for operations whilst demonstrating new technological advancements and their benefits
• Collaborating with technical teams on delivery chain
• Automating infrastructure delivery using industry standard tools
• Creation of procedural documentation (Operational handbook)
• Active participation in agile team ceremonies
• Participation in On-Call rotation

Your profile:

• 5+ years of experience in designing and administering MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and Oracle database engines for mission critical environments including HA and DR aspects and troubleshooting
• 3+ years of experience in Linux system administration including LVM, IAM, RBAC
• A history of success collaborating with operations teams, network engineers, and developers
• 5+ years of experience with automating DBA tasks (preferably via Ansible)
• Experience with agile/lean working frameworks
• Cohesive and clear active communication skills

Nice to have:

• History of success in datacenter or technology migration projects
• Substantial experience with Everything as Code approach
• Profound architectural understanding on database design in mission critical and regulated environments
• Familiarity with virtual and bare metal, self-hosted Linux ecosystems
• Familiarity with the containerization concept (K8S is a plus)
• Hands-on experience with monitoring/logging/alerting for databases
• Familiarity with SAN/NAS/DAS/S3 storage systems