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Senior Database Administrator for Cloud (Kosice/ Bratislava)

Zurich Insurance Company Ltd, organizačná zložka

Place of work
Remote work
Contract type
full-time
Wage (gross)
3 800 EUR/monthMinimal guaranteed bottom limit. Final salary offer depends on your experience and requirements.

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties


The role of the Senior Database Administrator is to provide expert knowledge and guidance to the database administration team within Cloud Operations. In this role, you join a team of highly skilled database and Automation Engineers responsible for the end-to-end ownership and automated delivery of public cloud services.

 The senior Database Engineer will be responsible for enabling and maximizing our ability to exploit cloud databases for business benefits through Infrastructure as Code, while ensuring customer satisfaction and cost-effectiveness, operational integrity, and adherence to relevant industry best practices. You will be provided with guidance and training to facilitate your development within this role.
 
This role requires occasional travel (within Europe typically). 

Candidates from Ukraine are encouraged to apply.

As Senior Database Administrator, your main responsibilities will involve: 
  • Provide guidance to the Cloud Operations team and customers on best practice database Operations in public cloud
  • Focus on the delivery of cloud-related database services and products to internal customers
  • Provide end-to-end database support for cloud services through monitoring, incident response, and incident resolution for the Public and Private Cloud Platform environments
  • Monitor the databases to ensure availability, reliability, security, and performance, responding to incidents and escalating them to the appropriate teams
  • Participate in a root cause analysis on incidents, continually seek to improve the stability of the environment for all customers. 
  • Seek to use automation to remove repetitive tasks, developing Runbooks and Playbooks for use across the organization. 
  • Act as an expert in database operations in cloud environments, using that expertise to support development teams in taking on more database operations responsibilities and driving DevOps practices to enable the company to efficiently scale cloud database workloads.

Employee perks, benefits


Possibility to work REMOTE/ ON-SITE (Kosice/Bratislava) 

Working time benefits
Personal days off, Concentrated work week, Additional vacation, Home office, Extra days off at occasion of childbirth, Sabbatical leave

Monetary benefits
Life insurance from Zurich Austria, Compensation for salary loss during sick leave, 3rd pension pillar contribution, Risk Life Insurance, Meal contribution on top of the legally required minimum, Years of service bonus, Wedding bonus, Baby bonus

Other benefits
Edenred electronic cafeteria, Public Transport contribution, Maternity leave benefits, Company and team events

Learning/Development
Professional Certifications, Online Education Portals, Extensive Onboarding program, Strengths based culture (GALLUP)

Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

University education (Master's degree)

Language skills

English - Upper intermediate (B2)

Number of years of experience

5

Personality requirements and skills


As Senior Database Administrator, your skills and experience will ideally include: 

Basic qualification:
  • 5-8 years’ experience as a database administrator
  • Experience with one or more database engines such as MS SQL, Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL, and Aurora.
  • Experience in managing public cloud databases in a large-scale enterprise environment.
  • Experience of working with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform.
  • Relevant degree or diploma program of study.
  • Experience of working to DevOps principles and in an Agile environment.
  • Troubleshooting experience in virtual/ cloud databases.
  • Proven experience of working within supplier-led service delivery models
  • Proven ability to succeed in collaborative work environments using Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Preferred qualification:
  • Industry Certification in one or more database engines such as MS SQL, Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL, and Aurora.
  • Knowledge of AWS RDS with associated certifications.
  • Proficient in the automation of repeatable tasks using appropriate scripting.
  • Experience in automated testing supporting operational readiness checks.
  • Experience of running production relational database services in public Cloud

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Brief description of the company

Zurich Insurance Company Ltd is a leading multi-line insurer that serves its customers in global and local markets. With about 55,000 employees, it provides a wide range of property and casualty, and life insurance products and services in more than 215 countries and territories. Zurich’s customers include individuals, small businesses, and mid-sized and large companies, as well as multinational corporations. Zurich Bratislava is a Slovakia-based Competence Center for highly specialized services in the areas of Life and non-life actuarial, risk management, business intelligence, IT application development and service management as well as insurance network. An international workforce of close to 300 colleagues is supporting Zurich’s Corporate Center and Business Units around the globe.

Number of employees

250-499 employees
ID: 4395734  Dátum zverejnenia: 4.8.2022  Pracovná ponuka je prevzatá z inej stránky alebo zdroja. Základná zložka mzdy (brutto): 3 800 EUR/month