DevOps Engineer (DataBase)

Sopra Steria is one of the largest players in the tech industry in Europe, known for its consulting, digital services and software development. We operate in nearly 30 countries in the world, hiring more than 55,000 employees.
The Polish branch, as the Global Delivery Center, operates in Katowice since 2007 and has been growing ever since. Currently, our team consists of around 1,000 specialists.

Within the Digital Platform Services department, our teams specialize in areas such as cloud, operating systems, virtualization, databases, backup or storage, as well as networking and security. We also have 1st line support consultants who speak French and English, but also Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and German.

The Application Services department is responsible for areas such as software development, data engineering, testing services, CRM, ITSM and ERP platform integrations, as well as application management for customers in Scandinavia, Benelux, France, Germany, Switzerland and the UK.

We are looking for DevOps Engineer (DataBase) to join Sopra Steria Polska and one of our innovative international squads located in Belgic and Poland. You will play a pivotal role in the delivery of our database services across cloud and on-premises environments. This team is responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining the full lifecycle of database solutions.

Note that we can only offer cooperation to people who are located in Poland and have EU citizenship.

Responsibilities:​

• Collaborate with team members to write efficient, reusable, and maintainable code.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of existing services by identifying opportunities for optimization.
• Write unit tests and integration tests where necessary to increase the confidence during development and deployment of the code.
• Collaborate with team members to build, maintain, and optimise pipelines (build, test, deploy, rollback) for database service automation code in GitLab.
• Develop and manage Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (XRDs) and utilise crossplane to deploy databases across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Utilise Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and scripting to automate environment provisioning, configuration, patching, backups, DR testing, and routine operational tasks.
• Suggest and implement automation of deployment and configuration tasks, including automated deployment strategies (blue/green, canary).
• Document infrastructure, code, scripts, and configurations to ensure maintainability and knowledge transfer within the squad.
• Administer and automate Oracle and PostgreSQL operational tasks, including migrations, backups/restores, replication, upgrades, and performance tuning in both cloud and on-prem setups

Tech stack on the project:​
Python, Oracle, PostgreSQL, AWS and Kubernetes.
 

Must have requirements:​

• Strong proficiency in Python and experience with Bash scripting.
• Solid hands‑on experience in Database Operations, especially with Oracle and PostgreSQL.
• Extensive experience working with AWS core services, including: RDS, EC2, VPC, IAM, ALB/NLB, S3, EKS/ECS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail.
• Practical experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Knowledge of configuration management tools like Ansible.
• Experience in CI/CD processes using GitLab or Jenkins.
• Familiarity with on‑premise virtualization technologies, such as VMware, Hyper‑V, KVM, Nutanix.
• EU citizenship
• Fluent English: B2/C1.
• Being open to occasional business trips abroad and visits in our office in Katowice.

Nice to have requirements:

• Clearance

What we offer:
• BENEFITS (UoP): Luxmed, Medicover Sport, Worksmile, educational platforms, languages learning platform, referral bonus, copyrights, life insurance, workation
• DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES (UoP and B2B): certifications (paid by the company), conferences, Tech Lunches, possibility to join our Communities (Project Management, Architecture, Security, Process Management, Leadership, AI and Cloud)

The recruitment process for this position consists of two stages:
• a short phone call with a recruiter (30 min max)
• one-hour long interview on Teams (with both general and technical questions)

Salary range:
UOP: 12 000-16 000 PLN gross/month.

B2B: 100-140 PLN net/h

All information about salary range and its additional components will be provided during the 1st stage of recruitment process.

At our organization, we are committed to fighting against all forms of discrimination. We foster a work environment that is inclusive and respectful of all differences.