Cloud Database Operations Engineer

Salary range: B2B - up to 34 EUR/h + VAT 💰

Ciklum is looking for a Cloud Database Operations Engineer to join our team full-time in Poland.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As a Cloud Database Operations Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow. 

Responsibilities: 

• Monitor database health and promptly identify and resolve issues

• Proficient in using Terraform or Ansible for database provisioning and infrastructure management

• Familiarity with services such as Redshift, RDS, Python, Databricks, Apache Airflow

• Develop and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, including:

  • Standard operating procedures for database maintenance, backups, and incident response

  • Detailed documentation for cost tracking, usage analysis, and budget forecasting

  • Runbooks and automation playbooks for common operational tasks

  • Query optimization techniques, performance tuning logs, and RCA (Root Cause Analysis) reports

Requirements:

• Strong expertise in cloud database services (Redshift, AWS Aurora, RDS/PG)

• Experience in building and maintaining scalable real-time database systems managing performance and user-experience

• Strong expertise in analyzing complex SQL queries, optimization and database monitoring/alerting automation

• Experience utilizing various design and coding techniques to improve queryperformance

• Experience in owning the cost management for the cloud database services such as Redshift, RDS, etc

• Provide valuable insights and contribute to the design, development, and architecture of data solutions

• Working knowledge of relational database internals (locking, consistency, serialization, recovery paths)

• Awareness of customer workloads and use cases, including performance, availability, and scalability

What`s in it for you?

• Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment

• Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise

• Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications

• Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies

• Flexibility: Enjoy flexibility – full remote working possibilities

• Care: We’ve got you covered with company-paid medical insurance

About us:

At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress.
With delivery centers in Wrocław and Gdańsk, our 300+ professionals in Poland drive forward-thinking solutions for global clients. Join a community where collaboration sparks innovation—and your impact reaches millions.

Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!

Interested already? We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. We can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.