Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 21 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We now want to enable the fossil freedom that drives society forward. To be able to reach this ambitious goal we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission. 

Would you like to make a difference and work together with us on our dedication to become fossil free?

The Department Database Operations belongs to Vattenfall IT Supply and is responsible for delivery / operation of all the majority of Vattenfall's database solutions. We are currently seeking new Database Administrators/Database Engineers, to our department.

If you like challenges, are not afraid ”to go the extra mile”, to work in a very dynamic environment within an international organization, submit your application today!

Your main duties as a DBA/Database Engineer are:

Your responsibility is to deliver database solutions and it’s supportive services in accordance with agreed service levels. In essence, our services are based on SQL Server, Oracle and PostGreSQL including associated complementary services such as HA, DW, replication, and security features.

To work in the role as a DBA/Database Engineer means that you are involved in both the development of solutions, implementation and operation of the database services during its life cycle (LCM), the emphasis is on service operations

Your responsibilities will be:

• Project and design work for new and existing database solutions.
• Installations, upgrades, documentation, testing, commissioning and configurations
• 2nd-line support and maintenance (on-call occurs)
• Actively participate in problem and root cause analysis (incident / problem management)
• Actively participate in project work, and when needed take action and pursue internal development activities both in our line org as well as in projects.
• Pro-actively work with monitoring / statistics and analyzes of the performance / availability in the supplied database solutions, reports for the customer, management, technicians or equivalent
• Investigative work (both internally and externally in the form of projects)
• Work is conducted in both Agile and DevOps form as well as through our Vattenfall project model (VPMM)

Location  

Katowice or Gliwice

Who are you? 

As our DBA/Database Engineer you bring a strong analyzing ability, an open mindset and you take responsibility for your own tasks. You are solution oriented and have the ability to understand both Business and IT needs in a structured way. You are service-oriented, calm, attentive and accommodating in your approach. You have interest, willingness and the ability to help others and make efforts to deliver solutions, “Customer centric/first”.

Next to this you bring:

• Several years of experience with database operations, primarily SQL Server and Oracle, along with emerging platform PostGreSQL
• Knowledge of additional features such as Security, HA and monitoring / data analysis
• Broad knowledge and experience of the surrounding technical infrastructure (server, storage, network both on-prem and in the Cloud) and security is necessary.
• Basic knowledge and experience of the OS administration (Microsoft and Linux / Unix)
• Knowledge of working with ITIL both theoretically and practically is of great importance.
• Experience in leading / participating in the incident, change, problem and configuration management
• Experience of participation / project work, a merit is also some project management skills.
• Fluent in English is a must, both spoken and written along with Polish.

Our offer 
Good remuneration, a challenging and international work environment, and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field. You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues. We offer attractive employment conditions and opportunities for personal and professional development. 

More Information 
We welcome your application in English. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website. 

For additional specific technical information about this vacancy announcement please contact Robert Lif + 46 72 2246891 ([email protected]). For further information regarding the recruitment process you are welcome to contact recruiter Ewa Krajewska at [email protected]

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation. 

The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall. The screening will be performed by a third party, Validata.
 
We look forward to receiving your application!