Senior PostgreSQL Engineer

• Salary: Gross monthly salary between EUR 4,931 and EUR 7,043 (scale 09) for a 36-hour work week.
• Extras: a thirteenth month, 8% holiday allowance, and a 10% Employee Benefit Budget.
• Development budget: EUR 1,400 development budget per year for your growth and development.
• Hybrid working: a balance between home and office work (possible for most roles).
• Pension: decide for yourself the amount of your personal contribution.

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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 with 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 working at Rabobank and the process? Ashley Lumbantobing, ashley.lumbantobing@rabobank.nl
• If you are invited for an interview, Bo, our virtual assistant, will contact you via SMS and email to schedule it.
• You can find answers to the most frequently asked questions on rabobank.jobs/en/faq
• A security check is part of the process
• We respect your privacy.

To be considered for this position, you must be located in the Netherlands or elsewhere in the EU and have the legal right to work in the Netherlands. We are unable to consider candidates requiring relocation from another country.

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