MSSQL Database Administrator(Middle)

Raiffeisen Bank is the largest Ukrainian bank with foreign capital. For over 30 years, we have been creating and developing the banking system of our country. At Raiffeisen, more than 5,500 employees work, including one of the largest product IT teams, which consists of over 800 professionals. Every day, we work hand in hand so that more than 2.7 millions of our clients can receive quality service, use the bank’s products and services, and develop their businesses because we are #Разом_з_Україною.

Your future responsibilities:

• Network reliability engineering: How to cook networking in DC? How to meet SLA 99.0 for all network services? Build hybrid links? Establish VPN with EU region? — just a routine questions for guys
• Data center reliability engineering: Hardware, SAN, Hypervisors, Backups, Hybrid Clouds, PaaS are all about these guys
• Data base reliability engineering: Here we’re talking about Oracle, Postgres and a bit of Sybase. Perform second day operations like: backups, monitoring, upgrades, etc. To meet highest SLA ever for our databases guys jumps “behind the scenes” of development kitchen and helps with performance bottlenecks and application issues
• Platform operations: Here we’re cooking IaC, Configuration management on top of *nix systems (We have more than 2k VMs BTW). GitHub, CodeQL, ansible, monitoring are just 10% of tech words from this area
• Project “Codename”: This unit is about cutting-edge technologies (we’re fans of cloud-native landscape), rapid SDLC, engineering culture, and microservices which are replacing “legacy” systems

The team is committed to delivering reliable platform services for customers who are: developers, devops, QA. We’re tech heart of Raiffeisen Ukraine and everybody expects that heat is operating normally

Platform engineers are responsible for infrastructure provisioning automation (Terraform), building base images, automation of network services like DNS, CI/CD processes across bank services, service monitoring, Kubernetes infrastructure provisioning, service provisioning and automation for it. Platform operations team provides services for DevOps guys in domains, developers, other infrastructure engineers.

This team is about core automation, high reliability, and huge volume of support (operational burden, yeap we have it) which we must cut ASAP. Main goal here: 70% of time for engineering/experiments and 30% for support tasks.

Your skills and experience:

• Administrator MSSQL Server (On-Prem, AWS Cloud)
• Practical administration experience:SQL Server integration services (SSIS)

SQL Server report services (SSRS)

SQL Server analysis services (SSAS)

• Practical skills in building high availability solutions:

AlwaysON

Failover Cluster instance

• Practical experience in configuring and deploying SQL Server in the AWS Cloud, On-Prem.
• Ability to deploy instances of TFTG-code.
• Mastering the principles of SQL queries:

ability to write them

understanding the construction, use of indexes

analysis and optimization of queries

• Ability to apply in practice:

Query Store

Extended Events

SQL Profiler

• Practical experience in building database backup plans
• Database recovery after a crash and database maintenance planning
• Support of monitoring metrics, setting of triggers to prevent problems
• Writing documentation

Nice to have:

• Administration of PG, MySQL, Sybase
• Practical use of Git

We offer what matters most to you:

• Competitive salary: we guarantee a stable income and annual bonuses for your personal contribution. Additionally, we have a referral program with rewards for bringing in new colleagues to Raiffeisen Bank
• Social package: official employment, 28 days of paid leave, additional paternity leave, and financial assistance for parents with newborns
• Comfortable working conditions: possibility of a hybrid work format, offices equipped with shelters and generators, modern equipment
• Wellbeing program: all employees have access to medical insurance from the first working day; consultations with a psychologist, nutritionist, or lawyer; discount programs for sports and purchases; family days for children and adults; in-office massages
• Training and development: access to over 130 online training resources; corporate training programs in CX, Data, IT Security, Leadership, Agile. Corporate library and English lessons. • Great team: our colleagues form a community where curiosity, talent, and innovation are welcome. We support each other, learn together, and grow. You can find like-minded individuals in over 15 professional communities, reading clubs, or sports clubs
• Career opportunities: we encourage advancement within the bank across functions
• Innovations and technologies: Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub, GitHub actions, ArgoCD, Prometheus, Victoria, Vault, OpenTelemetry, ElasticSearch, Crossplain, Grafana. Languages: Java (main), Python (data), Go (infra, security), Swift (IOS), Kotlin (Android). Data stores: Sql-Oracle, PgSql, MsSql, Sybase. Data management: Kafka, AirFlow, Spark, Flink
• Support program for defenders: we maintain jobs and pay average wages to mobilized individuals. For veterans, we have a support program and develop the Bank’s veterans community. We work on increasing awareness among leaders and teams about the return of veterans to civilian life. Raiffeisen Bank has been recognized as one of the best employers for veterans by Forbes

Why Raiffeisen Bank?

• Our main value is people, and we support and recognize them, educate them and involve them in changes. Join Raif’s team because for us YOU matter!
• One of the largest lenders to the economy and agricultural business among private banks
• Recognized as the best employer by EY, Forbes, Randstad, Franklin Covey, and Delo.UA
• The largest humanitarian aid donor among banks (Ukrainian Red Cross, UNITED24, Superhumans, СМІЛИВІ)
• One of the largest IT product teams among the country’s banks. • One of the largest taxpayers in Ukraine; 6.6 billion UAH were paid in taxes in 2023.

Opportunities for Everyone:

• Raif is guided by principles that focus on people and their development, with 5,500 employees and more than 2.7 million customers at the center of attention
• We support the principles of diversity, equality and inclusiveness
• We are open to hiring veterans and people with disabilities and are ready to adapt the work environment to your special needs
• We cooperate with students and older people, creating conditions for growth at any career stage