Senior DevOps Engineer – Oracle Platform (all humans)

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We are part of Erste Group – the largest banking group in Central and Eastern Europe with more than 2,500 branches and over 45,000 employees. Our more than 2,000 IT experts and enthusiasts are the bank's Digital Muscle.

Tribe SRE is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with strong Oracle expertise to improve the reliability, automation, and evolution of our enterprise database platform and infrastructure ecosystem.

The role combines DevOps, platform engineering, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), with Oracle as a key part of the broader infrastructure landscape. You will work on automation, observability, CI/CD enablement, platform resiliency, and operational excellence across mission-critical production environments.

Working closely with infrastructure, application, cloud, security, and database engineering teams, you will help modernize Oracle platform operations through scalable automation and engineering practices.

What to do:

• Design, implement, and maintain automation for Oracle platform and infrastructure operations using Terraform, Ansible, Python, and Bash, with a strong focus on eliminating manual operational activities and improving efficiency.

• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and self-service operational tooling, enabling teams to provision, configure, deploy, and operate platform services independently.

• Drive platform engineering and DevOps practices, establishing reusable automation, standardized processes, and scalable solutions across enterprise environments.

• Improve the reliability, availability, scalability, and operational efficiency of Oracle platform services through automation, engineering practices, and continuous improvement.

• Lead incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis (RCA), and corrective and preventive actions, while improving automation, runbooks, and operational standards.

• Support the operation of highly available Oracle environments using Oracle RAC, Data Guard, and RMAN, including understanding of performance troubleshooting, patching, upgrades, migrations, backup, and recovery.

• Strengthen platform resiliency through disaster recovery validation, resiliency testing, capacity planning, operational readiness, and SLA/SLO-focused improvements.

• Improve observability, monitoring, dashboards, alerting, metrics, logs, and incident trend analysis using platforms such as Grafana and Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), with a focus on proactive detection and automated response.

• Provide technical guidance to engineers and contribute to technical roadmaps, platform modernization, knowledge sharing, and adoption of DevOps and SRE practices, with a strong focus on automation, self-service, observability, and reliability.

You check these boxes:

• Strong recent active professional experience in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, including business-critical enterprise environments.

• Strong hands-on experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform and Ansible.

• Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and self-service platforms/tools.

• Solid understanding of observability, including metrics, logs, dashboards, alerting, monitoring, and incident trend analysis. Experience with Grafana and Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) is advantageous.

• Good practical understanding of Oracle database operations and administration, including Oracle RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, performance troubleshooting, patching, and upgrades. You do not need to be a traditional Oracle DBA, but you should understand the fundamentals of how Oracle databases are operated and troubleshot.

• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP, enterprise storage/backup, open-source infrastructure, or hybrid cloud environments are advantageous.

• Fluent English.

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 automates repetitive work wherever possible, removing 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 – Taking care of your health is important. That’s why 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. This is how we promote a balance between work, leisure, and family

• Employee Referral Program – Become a talent scout for career opportunities in IT. We are rewarding every successful referral for Erste Digital

• 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 2.900,- gross per month for this full time position. But this is just a formality, we are more than happy to discuss your actual expectations.

The way we are:

Erste Group considers the diversity of its employees as key to innovation and success. As employer we are proud to offer everyone equal chances, irrespective of age, skin colour, religious belief, gender, sexual orientation or origin.