Database reliability engineer (m/w)

Meanquest SA; Genf; Hybrid; CHF 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Meanquest SA in Geneva is seeking a skilled Database Reliability Engineer to serve as the primary database focal point for the application landscape. You will oversee database lifecycle management, patching, upgrades, and automation to improve reliability and performance across MongoDB, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, CouchDB, Redis and Kafka.

You will collaborate with developers, architects, and infra teams to implement blueprints, security controls, and runbooks, while ensuring data

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Minimum 3 years in a lead position with database/infra exposure.
• Experience running PostgreSQL/MariaDB/SQL Server in large production environments.
• Proficient in at least two of the listed technologies (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MariaDB/MySQL, MongoDB, CouchDB, Redis or Kafka).
• Strong English, French a plus.

Responsibilities

• Act as the main database focal point for the application teams.
• Manage database lifecycle: patching, upgrades, backups, and configurations.
• Improve query performance, indexing strategies, and data access patterns.
• Automate health checks, monitoring, and operational runbooks.
• Ensure security, compliance, data protection, and auditing.
• Maintain observability with dashboards and troubleshooting tools.
• Collaborate across application, infrastructure, and security teams.

Skills

SQL

PostgreSQL

MariaDB/MySQL

MongoDB

CouchDB

Kafka

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Linux

DBA experience

Education

CS degree

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK

Job description

Sector: Other

Role: IT / Technology

Date of last update: 13/10/2026

Meanquest is a Digital Services Company (DSC) established in 1995, currently employing over one hundred professionals. With offices in Ecublens, Meyrin, and Givisiez, we are specialized in five core areas: infrastructure, support, cloud solutions, cybersecurity, and recruitment.

As an IT company, we rely on the dedication and expertise of our talented team to deliver outstanding customer service.

We actively support our employees' growth by offering promising career opportunities and fostering a work environment that values autonomy and well-being.

We are continuously seeking motivated individuals who are eager to contribute to our company's development.

On behalf of one of our clients based in Geneva we are currently looking for a

Database Reliability Engineer (M/W)

We are looking for an experienced Database Reliability Engineer and act as the main database technical focal point for our application landscape.

The person will work on database lifecycle management, patching, upgrade, VM Blueprints, Database over Openshift, automation, monitoring, audit, troubleshooting.

The position will also support the maintenance, reliability, performance and continuous improvement of the databases used by our applications, including MongoDB, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, CouchDB, Redis and Kafka.

Missions

• 1- Database Operations and Maintenance
• 2- Collaboration with database infrastructure team
• 3- Automation and Industrialization
• 4- Security, Compliance and Data Protection

• Act as the main database technical focal point for the application team and work with developers, solution architects and infrastructure teams to improve query performance, indexing strategies, data access patterns and database resilience.
• Maintain and improve the reliability, performance, security and operational maturity of databases, including SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, CouchDB, Redis and Kafka.
• Support incident investigation, root cause analysis and performance troubleshooting for database-related issues.
• Contribute to database server blueprints, operational standards, VM baselines, upgrade strategies and shared runbooks.
• Automate repetitive database operations such as health checks, configuration validation, backup verification, monitoring checks and operational reporting.
• Improve database observability through monitoring, alerting, dashboards and practical troubleshooting tools.
• Contribute to security hardening, vulnerability remediation, access control review, auditability and compliance-related database activities.
• Support data protection practices at database level, including encryption, data minimization,pseudonymization, anonymization, retention and controlled deletion.
• Support database lifecycle activities, including patching, upgrades, configuration reviews, backup and restore validation, capacity planning and decommissioning.

Profil

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• You have minimun 3 years in lead position, 1 year of experience with infrastructure automation and 2 years of experience running PostgreSQL/Mariadb or SQLServer preferably in a large production environment
• You have 1 year with any object oriented programming language in a software engineering role
• Strong English (written and spoken) is required; French is a plus.

The role may cover several database and data infrastructure technologies, including:

• SQL Server
• MariaDB / MySQL
• MongoDB
• CouchDB
• Redis
• Kafka and related persistence/metadata components
• Database deployments on virtual machines and, where relevant, container platforms such as Kubernetes or OpenShift
• Deep expertise in every technology is not mandatory, but the candidate must be comfortable working across heterogeneous environments and willing to learn unfamiliar database platforms quickly.
• Strong hands-on experience as a DBA, database engineer, platform engineer or database reliability engineer.
• Good understanding of database administration concepts: backup and restore, upgrades, patching, indexing, query performance, replication, high availability, storage management and access control.
• Experience with at least two of the following technologies: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MariaDB/MySQL, MongoDB,CouchDB, Redis or Kafka.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex production issues across application, database, operating system and infrastructure layers.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, ELK or vendor-specific database monitoring solutions.
• Have solid knowledge of SQL
• Strong collaboration skills, especially when working across application, infrastructure, security and database teams
• Have a proactive, go-for-it attitude
• Know your way around Linux and the Unix Shell