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# Senior Database Engineer

- **Company:** Kontron Transportation GmbH
- **Location:** Wien, Austria (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** €70,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Engineering, Databases, Linux, Disaster Recovery, HAProxy, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, NoSQL, OpenShift, Kubernetes
- **Published:** September 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=09ae6d2f74b6db77

## About the Role

* Fundierte Kenntnisse in MariaDB/MySQL, Galera Cluster, MySQL Replikation, HAProxy und Linux.
 * Erfahrung mit Kubernetes/OpenShift, Helm, Automatisierung und cloud-nativen Plattformen.
 * Kenntnisse in den Bereichen Monitoring, Observability, Performance-Optimierung und Incident Troubleshooting.
 * Know-how in Hochverfügbarkeit, Georedundanz, Backup- und Disaster-Recovery-Lösungen.
 * Erfahrung mit MariaDB Operatoren, GitOps (ArgoCD) und modernen Platform-Engineering-Methoden.
 * Erfahrung mit NoSQL-Datenbanken z.B. MongoDB von Vorteil.

## Description

* Du konzipierst, betreibst und optimierst hochverfügbare MariaDB-Lösungen auf Basis von Galera Cluster, georedundanten Architekturen und HAProxy.
 * Du implementierst und betreust cloud-native Datenbankplattformen auf Kubernetes und OpenShift unter Einsatz von Helm und Operator-basierten Technologien.
 * Du stellst die Zuverlässigkeit, Performance und Skalierbarkeit der Plattform sicher - durch Monitoring, Automatisierung, proaktive Wartung und kontinuierliche Optimierung.
 * Du führst Root-Cause-Analysen bei komplexen Produktionsstörungen durch und entwickelst Strategien für Backup, Recovery und Disaster Recovery.
 * Du übernimmst technische Verantwortung bei der Definition von Lösungen, unterstützt bei Kundeneinsätzen und wirkst an Architektur- und Technologieentscheidungen mit.


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