DevOps Engineer (DataBase)

Sopra Steria is one of the largest tech industry players in Europe, specializing in consulting, digital services, and software development. The Polish branch operates as a Global Delivery Center in Katowice since 2007 with around 1,000 specialists. The Digital Platform Services department focuses on cloud, operating systems, virtualization, databases, backup, storage, networking, and security. The Application Services department handles software development, data engineering, testing, CRM, ITSM, ERP integrations, and application management for customers in Scandinavia, Benelux, France, Germany, Switzerland, and the UK.

• Strong proficiency in Python and experience with Bash scripting.
• Hands-on experience in Database Operations, especially with Oracle and PostgreSQL.
• Extensive experience with AWS core services: RDS, EC2, VPC, IAM, ALB/NLB, S3, EKS/ECS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail.
• Practical experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Knowledge of configuration management tools like Ansible.
• Experience in CI/CD processes using GitLab or Jenkins.
• Familiarity with on-premise virtualization technologies such as VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Nutanix.
• EU citizenship.
• Fluent English (B2/C1).
• Openness to occasional business trips abroad and visits to the office in Katowice.

Nice to have:

• Clearance.

• Collaborate with team members to write efficient, reusable, and maintainable code.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of existing services by identifying optimization opportunities.
• Write unit and integration tests to increase confidence during development and deployment.
• Build, maintain, and optimize pipelines for database service automation code in GitLab.
• Develop and manage Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (XRDs) and use crossplane to deploy databases across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and scripting to automate environment provisioning, configuration, patching, backups, disaster recovery testing, and routine operational tasks.
• Suggest and implement automation of deployment and configuration tasks, including automated deployment strategies (blue/green, canary).
• Document infrastructure, code, scripts, and configurations for maintainability and knowledge transfer.
• Administer and automate Oracle and PostgreSQL operational tasks including migrations, backups/restores, replication, upgrades, and performance tuning in cloud and on-prem setups.

Only candidates located in Poland with EU citizenship are eligible for cooperation.