Student Part-time SRE – Database Automation (all humans)

Make a difference in the financial life of millions of people: At Erste Digital you are co-creating the digital future, in which better financial health is possible. #believeinyourself We are part of Erste Group – the largest banking group in Central and Eastern Europe with more than 2,500 branches and over 45,000 employees. Our more than 2,000 IT experts and enthusiasts are the bank's Digital Muscle. We are a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Database team responsible for the reliability, availability, performance and automation of our enterprise database platforms. Our main technologies are Oracle and PostgreSQL, supported by automation, monitoring, infrastructure-as-code and modern DevOps practices. We work on platforms that support business-critical applications and continuously look for ways to reduce manual work and improve operational efficiency. We are looking for a 3rd or 4th year university student who is interested in automation, software engineering and infrastructure technologies and would like to gain hands-on experience in a professional SRE environment. What to do: Your primary focus will be automation of database and infrastructure-related operational tasks. You will: - Be part of development and maintenance of automation scripts and tools for database operations. - Support toil identification and toil reduction initiatives related to Oracle and PostgreSQL environments. - Support the team in building Infrastructure as Code using technologies such as Terraform and Ansible. - Help improve existing automation, monitoring and operational processes. - Help identify manual or inefficient processes and propose opportunities for automation. - Support the creation and updates of documentation and technical runbooks. - Collaborate with experienced SREs, database engineers and infrastructure specialists. - Gradually gain practical knowledge of Oracle and PostgreSQL administration.