
Gross monthly salary between € 4.931 and € 7.043 (scale 09).
Thirteenth month's salary and 8% holiday allowance
10% Employee Benefit Budget
EUR 1,400 development budget per year
Hybrid working: balance between home and office work (possible for most roles)
A pension, for which you can set the maximum amount of your personal contribution
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NL DevOps Engineer SQL/Sybase
At Rabobank, we believe in creating a better world together. As a cooperative bank, we work to support our customers, communities, and society at large. Data and technology are at the core of that mission. As a Senior PostgreSQL DBA DevOps Engineer, you play a critical role in ensuring our database platforms are secure, reliable, scalable, and futureproof.
As a Senior PostgreSQL DBA DevOps Engineer, you bring deep technical expertise and a proactive, solution oriented mindset. You will design, optimize, and maintain our PostgreSQL database landscape, and support development teams in delivering high quality, high performance applications. You combine hands-on database engineering with strategic thinking, helping us evolve our platform in a fast changing environment.
Conduct complex performance analysis and query optimization
Set up and manage replication, partitioning, and clustering
Implement and improve backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies
Integrate PostgreSQL into CI/CD pipelines, including automated testing, migrations, and validation
Implement and improve monitoring, alerting, and observability for database workloads
Build Idempotent automation surrounding PostgreSQL like the delivery, second day operations or decommissioning process
Create/maintain API's that can be used for second day operations
Act as a mentor for less experienced colleagues and help raise the maturity of the team
Daily datasets delivered for liquidity and funding management for over 50% international colleagues.
9.5 million customers worldwide.
Design, implement, and maintain robust PostgreSQL solutions for high availability, performance, and security
Guide and advise teams on database best practices and architectural decisions
Collaborate with engineers, product owners, and security teams to ensure compliance, resilience, and operational excellence
We believe in the power of differences. You will join the PostgreSQL Squad, part of the Database Platform within the Area Engineering Services. Our goal is to provide compliant, stable, and secure opensource relational database services as a fully managed standardized service.
Working in an Agile Scrum and DevOps setup, we take end-to-end ownership of our platform. As a team, we combine our unique set of expertise and collaborative mindset to deliver secure, reliable, and high performance PostgreSQL solutions, to enable Rabobank’s global consumers to innovate and grow.
For us, your development and that of society go hand in hand. That’s why we want to invest in you and work together for a better world. At Rabobank, you work on yourself and the world around you at the same time. You’ll see this reflected in your personal development budget, our hybrid working environment, and a healthy balance between work and home.
At Rabobank, we believe we become stronger through people who complement each other. By embracing our differences, we bring out the best in one another. We seek diversity in areas such as knowledge, skills, and experience, but also in gender, background, and culture. Across every department, we strive for variety and the freedom to be yourself – whoever you are.
You are curious, analytical, and committed to high standards. You thrive in a collaborative environment and enjoy translating complex technical topics into clear, actionable insights.
You bring:
5+ years of hands on experience wit h PostgreSQL in large enterprise environments.
Deep knowledge of core PostgreSQL features: indexing, query tuning, data modeling, replication, partitioning, and high availability architectures
Strong SQL expertise, including advanced SQL constructs and query analysis
Experience with automation tools (e.g., Ansible). Containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes) is a pre.
3+ years of hands on developing code based for infrastructure
Experience with on-Premise-based PostgreSQL (psql, barman, PEM, replication)
Experience with cloud based PostgreSQL (AWS RDS and Azure PostgreSQL)
Strong understanding of database security, authentication, auditing, and encryption
Experience with monitoring and observability (OBM, PEM, hand made scripts)
A collaborative mindset and strong communication skills
Questions about the role? Rogier van Gils via Rogier.van.Gils@rabobank.nl
Questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Rose Osté, Corporate Recruiter via rose.oste@rabobank.nl.
If you are invited for an interview, Bo, our virtual assistant, will contact you via SMS and email to schedule it.
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Rabobank is a cooperative bank with a mission. Our goal: to help customers realize their ambitions. We serve about 10 million customers in 47 countries. As an international financial institution, we work on the well-being and prosperity of millions of people. In the Netherlands, we serve individual and business customers. Globally, we focus on the food and agriculture sectors. For big or small challenges, in every area, people join forces in search of solutions. Rabobank has been doing this for 125 years, and we will continue to grow a better world together.
As an employer, we support the growth of colleagues every day. At Rabobank, you can work on your own development & shape the world around you. This is reflected in your own development budget, our hybrid work environment, and a good balance between your work and home life. You can work on banking matters for our individual and business customers, as well as on societal issues such as food and energy transitions.