Hybrid & Remote DB Administrator: PostgreSQL & Oracle

Worldline; Verwaltungsregion Seeland; Hybrid; CHF 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working arrangements withinSwIT

Public transport allowance

Monthly meal allowance

Employee share participation programme

Job summary

Worldline is seeking an experienced Database Administrator to join the High Availability Frontoffice Platform team in Switzerland. You will work with DBAs, Cloud Engineers and SREs on a major cloud migration to PostgreSQL while maintaining Oracle databases.

Key responsibilities include leading migrations, optimizing queries and schemas, monitoring performance, and ensuring security and compliance across production environments. Fluency in English is required; French/German are a plus.

Qualifications

• Hands-on administration of production databases (5+ years).
• Strong expertise in PostgreSQL and Oracle.
• Ability to optimize queries, schemas, and performance; troubleshoot issues.
• Experience with database incidents, root-cause analysis, and high-availability environments.

Responsibilities

• Support DevOps teams with database-related requests and document standards.
• Lead and coordinate database migrations, including cloud migration to PostgreSQL while maintaining Oracle.
• Collaborate with external partners and internal teams on database-related questions.
• Monitor database performance, ensure zero-downtime, compliance, vulnerability management, and optimization strategies.
• Work cross-functionally with other systems and operations teams on shared subjects.
• Participate in remunerated on-call duties (3rd level support) for-end-to-end continuity.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Oracle

Query optimization

Production databases

Incident management

Monitoring and performance tuning

Cloud platforms & migrations

Security best practices (PCI-DSS)

Documentation

English fluency

Job description

Worldline is seeking an experienced Database Administrator to join the High Availability Frontoffice Platform team in Switzerland. You will work with DBAs, Cloud Engineers and SREs on a major cloud migration to PostgreSQL while maintaining Oracle databases.

Key responsibilities include leading migrations, optimizing queries and schemas, monitoring performance, and ensuring security and compliance across production environments. Fluency in English is required; French/German are a plus.