Senior Database Administrator / Sybase ASE-IQ (m/f/diverse)

The company

Commerzbank is a leading international commercial bank with branches and offices in almost 50 countries. The world is changing, becoming digital, and so are we. We are leaving the traditional bank behind us, and we are choosing to move forward as a digital enterprise.

As part of this strategy, Commerzbank continues the expansion of its Digital Technology Center in Sofia, Bulgaria. We need motivated people who will join us on this journey, and we are looking for a Senior Database Administrator / Sybase ASE-IQ in our Data Center Base Infrastructure team.

As a Senior Sybase ASE/IQ Database Administrator, you will be a part of a growing international team. We are seeking candidates with wide range of expertise and skills in Sybase ASE and IQ database support such as day-to-day administration, performance tuning, monitoring, Backup/restore and SQL programming know-how. You will be mentoring other database administrators sharing your expertise and work in a big database team.

Your tasks:

• Database Administration support with focus on Sybase ASE and IQ databases.
• Database Maintenance, housekeeping, troubleshooting.
• Identifying and resolving database performance issues, including tuning SQL queries, optimizing indexing, and implementing necessary database changes.
• Incident, problem and change management of database-related incidents and problems, both in collaboration with other technical teams.
• Providing operational support, including capacity planning, system performance analysis, and resource utilization monitoring.
• Developing and maintaining documentation related to database administration procedures, configurations, and troubleshooting steps.
• Installation, configuration and lifecycle migrations/upgrades and patch management.
• Conducting ongoing monitoring and proactive management of database systems to ensure high availability and performance.
• Supporting database backup and recovery activities, ensuring appropriate backup strategies and disaster recovery plans are in place.
• T-SQL database programming.
• Unix/Linux, PHP, python, shell scripting.
• Participating in an on-call rotation schedule to ensure 24/7 availability and response to critical incidents.
• Implementing and maintaining Sybase ASE/IQ disaster recovery and high availability solutions.
• Ensuring compliance with data protection regulations.

Your Profile:

• Proven hands-on experience in administering Sybase ASE and Sybase IQ databases.
• Strong expertise in database administration, monitoring, backup, recovery, cloning, and duplication procedures.
• Skilled in problem analysis, incident resolution, and error debugging, including coordinating and raising support requests with software vendors.
• Solid experience in database performance tuning, covering both configuration optimisation and application-level query/code tuning.
• Experience with Sybase database installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, and migrations.
• Advanced expertise in administering Sybase Replication Server.
• Proficient in Sybase ASE/IQ data transfer and extraction utilities and processes.
• Strong knowledge of space management, capacity analysis, object reorganisation, and database maintenance.

In return, we offer:

• Good work-life balance, including 25 days annual paid leave (increasing with 1 day per year up to 31 in total), flexible working hours, work from abroad and work-from-home opportunities;
• Luxury package of additional health and dental insurance;
• Food vouchers in the amount of EUR 80 monthly;
• 6 additional annual days off for exceptional circumstances;
• Employee assistance program for psychological, financial and legal consultations;
• Multisport card;
• Annual contribution of EUR 153.39 net per child for a summer camp/school/kindergarten for children up to age of 15;
• Possibilities for building career-advancing skills by covering training/certification courses and conferences based on individual learning and development needs, access to an online learning platform;
• Opportunities for long-term professional development in a stable, 150-year-old company while contributing to the vision of a new, just starting Digital Technology Center;
• Friendly and supportive multicultural environment, open to new opinions and ideas.

Commerzbank is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, color, national origin, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetics, disability, age, or any other characteristics.

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Due to the high volume of applications, we contact only the candidates who best match the role requirements. If you do not hear from us within 14 days, please consider that we won’t proceed with your application at this stage.