Our client partners with one of Switzerland’s most innovative and sustainable tech companies - a market leader in telecommunications and digital solutions. Working closely with teams in Switzerland, they deliver high-impact IT services that truly make a difference. Their culture is fast-paced, collaborative, and focused on growth, both for the business and every individual in the team. As they expand their presence in Riga, they’re looking to hire 50+ DevOps Engineers this year. It’s a great time to join and shape what’s next. If you're driven by challenges, eager to grow, and ready to build the future - this is your place.
The company is looking for an experienced and curious DevOps/DBA Admin to join the team to provide SRE services to DBs running on AWS. As a DevOps/DBA Admin, you will play a key role in developing automation tools as well as running, supporting, maintaining and providing continuous improvement to the DBs and infrastructure of our AWS cloud platform and GitOps code. You will take responsibility of topics such as System provisioning, Disaster recovery, Backup recovery, System patching and maintenance and Capacity planning to support our business teams to run valuable and reliable applications.
As a DevOps/DBA Admin you will:
- Oversee the planning and execution of database migrations from on-premises infrastructure to AWS
- Choose the right compute for the database instances running in AWS cloud
- Automate repetitive tasks
- Optimize database structures, queries, and indexing for improved performance on AWS
- Implement best practices to ensure database security, reliability, and availability in the AWS environment
- Take an active role in supporting and in finding the root cause of operational/availability issues and prevent recurrences
- Support team on cost optimization
- Help and support business teams on AWS infrastructure topics
- Maintain the automated infrastructure (lifecycle upgrades of databases, EKS Clusters and other infrastructure components).
What we offer:
- Salary from 3700 to 6000 EUR monthly gross
- 80 EUR monthly cell phone and internet allowance
- Flexible schedule and possibility to work in hybrid mode
- Ergonomic home office allowance in value of 500 EUR
- Possibility to work abroad for 4 weeks each year
- Premium health insurance after 1 month (with included consultations with psychologist and/or physiotherapist)
- Optics (200 EUR every 2 years)
- 24 working days of annual paid holiday per year
- 5 dedicated paid learning day’s annually
- Gym membership or swimming pool/water aerobics membership
- Day off on your birthday or names day
- 1 day off for social activities (voluntary project, adopting an animal)
- Collaborative, friendly and driven work environment
- Work on innovations, cutting edge technologies and in autonomous high performance teams
- Parking options
- Continuous development environment that fosters your growth (conferences, cross-department experience sharing, learning platforms etc.)
- Annual salary review
Who you are:
- Experience in database operation, migration and modernization
- Proven experience in database administration, particularly in migration projects to the cloud
- Deep understanding of various database technologies and AWS database solutions
- Familiarity with AWS services and tools pertinent to database management and optimization
- Good communication and English skills
Nice-to-have:
- Expertise in GitOps practices, know-how of infrastructure and configuration automation tools
- Strong problem-solving skills and a detail-oriented mindset to mitigate challenges in migration and maintenance
- Independent but a team player and ready to take responsibilities
- A degree in computer science, information systems, or equivalent technical experience
Hiring Process:
1. Interview with Tech Recruitment
2. Technical interview with the company
3. Interview with the DB specialist
4. Final business meeting
