Senior Operations Engineer Data & Database Focus

• Level: Senior
• Type: B2B
• English Level: Upper-Intermediate
• Location: Poland, Romania, Portugal
• Skills: AWS CI/CD Docker Kubernetes SQL

Responsibilities

Service Reliability & Architecture

• Lead the design and implementation of reliable, scalable service architectures
• Ensure high availability, performance, and durability of production environments
• Drive reliability standards, patterns, and best practices across teams
• Lead major incident response efforts and guide long-term remediation

Database & Data Platform Engineering

• Architect, maintain, and optimize database systems (SQL)
• Design and implement replication, backup, failover, and disaster recovery strategies
• Improve data pipelines, storage systems, and high-availability configurations
• Conduct deep performance analyses and resolve complex database issues

Automation & Tooling Leadership

• Build and improve internal tools for deployment, orchestration, observability, and maintenance
• Automate operational workflows to eliminate manual processes and reduce error rates
• Mentor engineers on automation strategies and reliability engineering techniques

DevOps & Infrastructure

• Enhance CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation across services
• Define and enforce infrastructure-as-code standards
• Collaborate with engineering teams to design systems for operability and maintainability
• Drive improvements in monitoring, logging, metrics, and alerting systems

Operational Excellence

• Participate in and help lead the on-call rotation
• Develop runbooks, guides, and processes for consistent operational practices
• Conduct and lead post-incident reviews and reliability-focused retrospectives
• Identify systemic issues and deliver strategic, long-term solutions

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Expertise

• Strong proficiency with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB)
• Extensive experience with database administration, replication, query optimization, and performance tuning
• Advanced knowledge of Linux systems, networking, and distributed system fundamentals
• Hands-on experience with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong scripting or programming experience (Python, Java, Bash, Ansible)
• Experience designing and maintaining observability systems (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)

DevOps & Reliability Skills

• Expertise in CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and deployment automation
• Strong understanding of infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi)
• Ability to design highly available, fault-tolerant architectures
• Experience guiding teams through incident response and improving on-call processes

Leadership & Collaboration

• Ability to mentor and support engineers across teams
• Strong communication skills, especially during incidents and cross-team discussions
• Track record of leading reliability projects from concept through execution
• Demonstrated ability to influence engineering roadmap decisions based on operational needs

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with distributed data systems or event-driven architectures
• Familiarity with SRE frameworks such as SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
• Experience designing or managing multi-region cloud deployments
• Prior experience in a Senior, Staff, or Lead SRE role