Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia is hiring a Postgres DB Senior Engineer to serve as a technical expert for building, monitoring, optimizing, and maintaining our Postgres database environments. In this role, you will analyze datasets, identify optimization opportunities, and validate technical approaches using data-driven methods.
What You'll Do
- Administer, operate, and maintain Postgres environments.
- Design, implement, and optimize database architectures.
- Plan and execute installations, upgrades, migrations, and patching of Postgres DB.
- Monitor performance and tune Postgres databases.
- Implement backup & recovery strategies.
- Troubleshoot database issues, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions.
- Ensure availability, reliability, and high performance of database systems.
- Support high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) configurations.
- Create and maintain system and process documentation.
- Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and operations teams.
- Ensure adherence to security policies, compliance requirements, and audit standards.
- Contribute to automation initiatives and continuous service improvement.
What We're Looking For
- Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience with Postgres administration.
- Strong understanding of Postgres architecture, components, and internal processes.
- Practical experience with installation, configuration, maintenance, performance tuning, backup & recovery, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Solid knowledge of Postgres and ability to analyze and optimize complex queries.
- Experience with Linux Server environment (administration basics required).
- Analytical, systematic, and structured working style.
- Strong teamwork, communication skills, and customer-oriented approach.
- Ability and willingness to perform on-call duties.
- English: Upper Intermediate (B2).
Nice to Have
- Experience with Oracle or MariaDB.
- Knowledge of High Availability solutions (AlwaysOn, Failover Clustering, Log Shipping, Mirroring).
- Command-line / shell scripting skills.
- Experience with support tools (e.g., PuTTY, monitoring dashboards, automation tools).
- German language skills.
Technical Stack
- Postgres
- Linux
- Oracle
- MariaDB
Team & Environment
You will join a team at operational services GmbH within Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia.
Benefits & Compensation
- Financial benefits.
- Benefits with focus on learning and development.
- Benefits with focus on health and sport.
- Benefits with focus on family and work-life balance.
- Other benefits.
- Final salary is negotiable. Base salary will not be lower than 1850€ /brutto.
Work Mode
This is a local-country position in Slovakia.
Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia proactively finds new ways to improve and continuously transform into the type of company providing innovative information and communication technology services.
