Database Platform Engineer - Cloud & Hybrid

avacone Switzerland; Basel; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare stipend

Job summary

avacone Switzerland is seeking a Database Administrator to design, implement, maintain and support enterprise database platforms across on‑premises, cloud and hybrid environments. You will optimise performance, ensure security and resilience, automate provisioning and collaborate with development, security and data teams to enable reliable application delivery.

Ideal candidates have 6–10 years of relevant experience with Oracle, SQL Server and PostgreSQL, plus strong scripting and automation

Qualifications

• Strong experience administering enterprise database platforms (Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL).
• Solid knowledge of relational concepts, SQL and operations.
• Experience designing and supporting high-availability architectures.
• Experience with backup, recovery, replication, and DR.
• Familiarity with cloud/hybrid deployments and containerised databases.
• Automation, scripting and IaC basics; DevOps/CICD familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Advise on database design, architecture and technology choices.
• Administer relational and cloud-native databases across environments.
• Install, configure, upgrade and maintain database environments.
• Monitor performance, capacity, availability and utilisation.
• Implement backup, recovery, replication and high-availability solutions.
• Contribute to disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
• Maintain security measures including access controls and encryption.
• Document solutions and support cross-functional teams in delivery pipelines.
• Develop automation scripts for provisioning, monitoring and management.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, security and data teams.

Skills

Oracle

Microsoft SQL Server

PostgreSQL

SQL

High availability

Automation

DevOps

Python

OpenShift

Cloud experience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

OpenShift

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Job description

avacone Switzerland is seeking a Database Administrator to design, implement, maintain and support enterprise database platforms across on‑premises, cloud and hybrid environments. You will optimise performance, ensure security and resilience, automate provisioning and collaborate with development, security and data teams to enable reliable application delivery.

Ideal candidates have 6–10 years of relevant experience with Oracle, SQL Server and PostgreSQL, plus strong scripting and automation