Cloud Database Automation Engineer (Hybrid)

Coolblue; Rotterdam; Hybrid; EUR 68,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training courses at Coolblue Uni

Travel allowance

Retirement plan

Leave 25 days

Product discounts

Great international work culture

Hybrid working

Worldwide colleagues and events

Job summary

Coolblue is seeking a Database Automation Engineer to help grow our cloud platform in Rotterdam. You will automate backups, deployments, and database provisioning with Python and infrastructure as code, while collaborating with development teams on Oracle and Aurora databases.

You bring cloud experience (AWS preferred), strong analytical skills, and experience with Datadog and Oracle tooling to keep data secure and applications running smoothly.

Qualifications

• Experience with cloud platforms and databases.
• Strong analytical and solution-oriented mindset.
• Experience with a cloud service, preferably AWS.
• Development experience in Python.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog.
• Experience with Oracle 19c databases and Oracle GoldenGate.
• Familiarity with query tuning and Oracle RDS database architecture.
• Understand the challenges of running Oracle on AWS.
• Prefer knowledge of AWS Aurora or another database running on AWS RDS.
• Prefer Oracle Database certification.
• Strong prioritization skills across different tasks.

Responsibilities

• Support Coolblue's cloud platform and expand our database infrastructure.
• Automate recurring tasks such as backups, deployment pipelines, and provisioning databases using Python and IaC.
• Help development teams with incidents and version upgrades for Oracle and Aurora databases.
• Ensure data security through monitoring, auditing, and smart automation.
• Find root causes of issues in back-end systems and assist planning for upgrades.

Skills

Python

Cloud platforms

AWS

Analytical skills

Solution-oriented mindset

Prioritization

Oracle 19c

Query tuning

RDS

Tools

Datadog

Oracle GoldenGate

AWS RDS

Job description

Coolblue is seeking a Database Automation Engineer to help grow our cloud platform in Rotterdam. You will automate backups, deployments, and database provisioning with Python and infrastructure as code, while collaborating with development teams on Oracle and Aurora databases.

You bring cloud experience (AWS preferred), strong analytical skills, and experience with Datadog and Oracle tooling to keep data secure and applications running smoothly.