Senior Database Platform Engineer

As a Senior Database Platform Engineer, you will help transform Oracle database operations into a fully automated, secure, and scalable platform. Working within an agile delivery team, you will design and maintain automation across the entire database lifecycle, ensuring reliable, auditable, and resilient database services while minimizing manual intervention.

Your key tasks 

• Automate the complete Oracle database lifecycle, including provisioning, cloning, refresh, reconfiguration, backup, restore, and decommissioning using Terraform, Ansible, and scripting.
• Develop and maintain automation that provisions databases to Avaloq standards and performs post-clone configuration without manual intervention.
• Deliver and operate automated workflows for day-to-day database operations, including restart, resize, housekeeping, parameter changes, Oracle Home switches, and standard incident recovery actions.
• Manage database configuration and parameters through GitOps practices, ensuring full version control, traceability, and auditability.
• Build and enhance backup, recovery, and disaster recovery automation, including Data Guard Broker switchovers, instance recovery, and DR testing.
• Drive platform standardization through immutable infrastructure by maintaining operating system and Oracle Home images that eliminate configuration drift and reduce maintenance effort.
• Automate large-scale database refreshes across ACP and non-ACP environments and maintain the central automation framework supporting development, testing, and support teams.
• Manage database security by overseeing the TDE key lifecycle, secrets management, and privileged access controls, ensuring secure and auditable encryption at rest.
• Contribute code, participate in peer reviews, run CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate closely with Cloud Architects, Platform Engineers, Service Operations, Software Architects, and operational DBAs.