Senior DevOps Engineer

Client: Top 10 Multinational Bank in Romania

Office Location: Bucharest

Contract Duration: At least 12 months

Project No.: 011403

General

We are looking for Senior DevOps Engineers to operate and improve mission-critical Data Lake and Data Warehouse platforms for our banking client.

Responsibilities/Activities

• Operate and continuously improve Data Lake and Data Warehouse platforms across production and non-production environments, with focus on stability, availability and performance
• Investigate incidents, support major-incident recovery, perform root-cause analysis and implement permanent fixes for recurring issues
• Manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments, including provisioning, patching, lifecycle tasks, capacity management, certificates, connectivity, firewall-related activities and vulnerability remediation
• Perform operational Oracle administration on Exadata: monitor database health, investigate alerts and performance degradation, manage tablespaces, users and schemas, validate backup and recovery readiness, analyse SQL and run Data Pump schema refreshes
• Work closely with senior DBAs on RMAN, AWR interpretation, complex performance tuning, deployments and other advanced database operations
• Administer and support IBM DataStage, troubleshoot ETL jobs and platform components, support deployments and releases, and contribute to upgrades and maintenance activities
• Build operational automation with Shell and, where useful, Python; reduce repetitive work and improve secure CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps
• Improve monitoring, alerting and observability, and contribute to infrastructure upgrades plus GCP/MDPL modernization and cloud-readiness initiatives
• Create and implement ServiceNow changes, support Incident, Major Incident, Problem and Change Management, maintain runbooks and support audit, risk, compliance and security activities

Requirements

Technical

• At least 5 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, platform operations, infrastructure engineering or production support in mission-critical environments
• Strong Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration skills and practical experience supporting production systems
• Hands-on IBM DataStage administration and troubleshooting experience
• Strong Shell scripting skills for operational support and automation
• Experience administering Oracle Database environments on Exadata (Oracle 19c, 21c or 23c), including operational DBA activities and SQL investigations
• Good understanding of database health monitoring, tablespace management, user/schema administration, backup and recovery readiness, and Data Pump schema refreshes
• Experience designing, maintaining and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps
• Monitoring and observability experience (preferably with Grafana), plus strong incident troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills
• Experience with ServiceNow or a comparable IT service-management platform and working knowledge of Incident, Problem and Change Management
• Strong understanding of reliability engineering, standardization and engineering best practices, with focus on availability, resilience, security and continuous improvement

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Others

• Good oral and written communication skills (English and Romanian)
• Available for business-hours support, with occasional participation in major incidents and emergency overtime when needed
• Strong troubleshooting and ownership mindset, with a practical approach to operational excellence and disciplined execution
• Proactive in identifying risks and improvements, and effective under pressure during critical incidents and shifting priorities

Nice to have requirements

• Experience operating large-scale Data Lake or Data Warehouse platforms
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP), MDPL or broader cloud migration experience
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience
• Python for operational automation
• Hands-on vulnerability remediation experience
• Exposure to AI-assisted engineering tools
• Experience working in Agile/DevOps delivery models