Are you passionate about building reliable, high-performing systems that keep businesses running smoothly?

EPAM is seeking a talented and motivated Database Reliability Engineer to join our dedicated team in Zurich. Here, you'll have the opportunity to collaborate with forward-thinking professionals who are committed to ensuring the seamless performance and dependability of cutting-edge systems.

In this role, you will be responsible for adopting software engineering practices to view operation as engineering problem and enhancing resiliency of the application.

This is your chance to be part of a dynamic, innovative team where reliability meets innovation. If you’re ready to make a meaningful impact and grow your career in a fast-paced, supportive environment, we’d love to hear from you!

Responsibilities

• Apply a broad range of engineering practices with a focus on reliability from instrumentation, performance analysis and log analytics
• Respond to production incidents to gain first-hand experience of operational hotspots and identify the root causes of problems
• Take part in on-call duties, operations, software development and support
• Collect and analyze operational data, define and monitor key metrics to identify and communicate areas for improvement
• Optimize overall process of delivery, monitoring and controls to boost service reliability
• Ensure the quality, security, reliability and compliance of the solutions by applying digital principles and implementing both functional and non-functional requirements
• Learn new technologies and practices, reuse strategic platforms and standards, evaluate options and make decisions with long-term sustainability in mind
• Work in an agile way as part of multi-disciplinary teams and collaborate with engineers and product managers

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical experience in RDBMS/NoSQL Database Products
• Good understanding of cloud computing
• Excellent knowledge of Performance Tuning and Capacity Management
• Good experience with common SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) tools such as Configuration, Alerting or Observability
• Good experience with the software development life cycle, CI/CD, Git and code build pipelines
• Hands-on experience on writing automation script using Python/Golang, PowerShell/Bash
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code tooling (CloudFormation, Terraform, ARM)
• Familiarity with Azure Automation, Function or equivalent tools in other Cloud Platforms
• Proficient communication skills in English are a must, while knowledge of the German language is a significant advantage

Nice to have

• Experience on Azure Cloud Databases
• Hands-on experience on Gitlab

We offer

• 5 weeks of vacation
• EPAM Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Enhanced parental leave
• Extended pension plan
• Daily sickness allowance insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Global business travel medical and accident insurance
• Learning and development opportunities including in-house training and coaching, professional certifications, over 22,000 courses on LinkedIn Learning Solutions and much more
• *All benefits and perks are subject to certain eligibility requirements

• Please note that any offers will be subject to appropriate background checks

• We do not accept CVs from recruiting or staffing agencies

• For this position, we are able to consider applications from the following:

• - Swiss nationals
• - EU/EFTA nationals
• - Third-country nationals based in Switzerland with an appropriate work permit
• - Displaced people from Ukraine who are currently in Switzerland and hold, or have already applied for, S permits