CLOUD DATABASE DEVOPS - STACKIT (m/f/d)

Make an amazing climb in your career in an international team of experts. Our company provides technological services for the whole Schwarz group of more than 30 countries in Europe and the US. Our vision is to be the leading ecosystem for a better life. We built the European sovereign cloud STACKIT. With XM Cyber we set new standards in differing cyber crimes. We run AI better than anyone. With us you will find a variety of opportunities to grow and do your best at your calling – IT. We exist to improve life with our products and services - for today's generation and future generations. We act future proof! The impact you will create: Own the end-to-end design, deployment, and management of PostgreSQL and MariaDB in production Kubernetes environments.Ensure databases are highly available, secure, and resilient, with robust monitoring and alerting.Continuously tune and optimize queries, schemas, and configurations to support growth at massive scale.Automate operational tasks and database lifecycle management using Kubernetes operators, Helm, and scripting.Contribute upstream when needed, submitting patches or fixes for PostgreSQL, MariaDB, or related tooling.Conduct in-depth troubleshooting and root cause analysis, implementing durable solutions.Collaborate with developers and platform engineers to integrate databases seamlessly into applications. Experience and skills you will need: Experienced database engineer with deep expertise in PostgreSQL and/or MariaDB in production environments.Skilled in query optimization, indexing strategies, replication, and high availability database architectures.Proficiency in deploying and managing databases with Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm charts.Prior experience contributing to open-source projects or upstream communities (databases, Kubernetes operators, etc.) is a plus.Effective communicator, with the ability to clearly express complex ideas in both written and verbal formats.Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, proactively taking ownership of challenges.Team player with a strong sense of responsibility for the availability and health of our production systems.