Database Engineer

VIER is a fast-growing company in the IT sector. We are always looking for motivated and creative minds who like to make a difference. At VIER, ‘teamwork’ and ‘co-design’ are not just empty words. For us, people take centre stage. If you are prepared to work proactively and are not afraid of change, we look forward to taking you on a journey with us. Our actions are guided by our Guiding Principles, which emphasise openness and transparency. We also have a unique participative application process in which your future team decides whether you come on board.

VIER rethinks customer dialogue and communication. With our solutions, we make contact-based business processes more efficient. We improve the customer experience and the user experience. We combine artificial intelligence with human intelligence, expertise with intuition, years of experience with innovation and research.

This is what you can expect as a Database Engineer with us: 

- New and further development and operation of our databases in our private cloud/development platform.

- You are responsible for the technical development and implementation of cloud-native specific concepts and database solutions.

- Consistent automation will help you to administer and provision our complex database landscape.

- You support our internal customers (development teams) by providing technical advice on database technology.

- You keep your finger on the pulse and constantly deepen your knowledge in the database environment and implement it.

- You actively shape the DevOps culture in the team and in the organization.

This is what you bring to the table:

- For this position we are looking for someone with several years of relevant professional experience (at least 7 years) as a Database Engineer/DBA.

- You have expertise with relational databases, especially MySQL, CockroachDB, Galera Cluster.

- Time series databases and distributed databases are no foreign words for you.

- Automation is part of your DNA. You should have extensive experience in Ansible.

- You have experience with modern monitoring (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, PMM).

- You are curious and enjoy acquiring knowledge and are interested in current database technologies in the cloud-native environment.

- You are an absolute team player.

- You are fluent in English.

- Willingness to work at night if necessary.

- You have sound knowledge in the administration of Linux server systems.