Senior DevOps Engineer

About the Position

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience to join our top 10 multinational bank in Romania. You will be responsible for operating and improving mission-critical Data Lake and Data Warehouse platforms.

Client: Top 10 Multinational Bank in Romania

Office Location: Bucharest

Contract Duration: At least 12 months

Responsibilities

• Operate and continuously improve Data Lake and Data Warehouse platforms across production and non-production environments, focusing on stability, availability, and performance.
• Investigate incidents, support major-incident recovery, perform root-cause analysis, and implement permanent fixes for recurring issues.
• Manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments, including provisioning, patching, lifecycle tasks, capacity management, certificates, connectivity, firewall-related activities, and vulnerability remediation.
• Perform operational Oracle administration on Exadata: monitor database health, investigate alerts and performance degradation, manage tablespaces, users, and schemas, validate backup and recovery readiness, analyze SQL, and run Data Pump schema refreshes.
• Work closely with senior DBAs on RMAN, AWR interpretation, complex performance tuning, deployments, and other advanced database operations.
• Administer and support IBM DataStage, troubleshoot ETL jobs and platform components, support deployments and releases, and contribute to upgrades and maintenance activities.
• Build operational automation with Shell and, where useful, Python; reduce repetitive work and improve secure CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and observability, and contribute to infrastructure upgrades plus GCP/MDPL modernization and cloud-readiness initiatives.
• Create and implement ServiceNow changes, support Incident, Major Incident, Problem, and Change Management, maintain runbooks, and support audit, risk, compliance, and security activities.

Requirements

Technical

• At least 5 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, platform operations, infrastructure engineering, or production support in mission-critical environments.
• Strong Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration skills and practical experience supporting production systems.
• Hands-on IBM DataStage administration and troubleshooting experience.
• Strong Shell scripting skills for operational support and automation.
• Experience administering Oracle Database environments on Exadata (Oracle 19c, 21c, or 23c), including operational DBA activities and SQL investigations.
• Good understanding of database health monitoring, tablespace management, user/schema administration, backup and recovery readiness, and Data Pump schema refreshes.
• Experience designing, maintaining, and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps.
• Monitoring and observability experience (preferably with Grafana), plus strong incident troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Experience with ServiceNow or a comparable IT service-management platform and working knowledge of Incident, Problem, and Change Management.
• Strong understanding of reliability engineering, standardization, and engineering best practices, with a focus on availability, resilience, security, and continuous improvement.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Others

• Good oral and written communication skills (English and Romanian).
• Available for business-hours support, with occasional participation in major incidents and emergency overtime when needed.
• Strong troubleshooting and ownership mindset, with a practical approach to operational excellence and disciplined execution.
• Proactive in identifying risks and improvements, and effective under pressure during critical incidents and shifting priorities.

Nice to Have

• Experience operating large-scale Data Lake or Data Warehouse platforms.
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP), MDPL, or broader cloud migration experience.
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Python for operational automation.
• Hands-on vulnerability remediation experience.
• Exposure to AI-assisted engineering tools.
• Experience working in Agile/DevOps delivery models.

We Offer

• Opportunity to work with a top 10 multinational bank in Romania.
• Competitive contract duration of at least 12 months.
• Collaborative and dynamic work environment.

About the Company

IntelSol is a leading recruitment agency specializing in placing top talent in the tech and finance sectors. We pride ourselves on our commitment to excellence and our ability to connect skilled professionals with top companies.