Senior Database Administrator

Geopost, a European leader in parcel delivery and solutions for e-commerce, operates in more than 50 countries across all continents through its network of expert delivery brands, including: DPD, Chronopost, SEUR, BRT, Speedy, and Jadlog. Leveraging its industry-specific expertise, Geopost is further growing the development of Out-Of-Home delivery services with Pickup, the densest parcel shop and locker network in Europe, and is also expanding temperature-controlled solutions for food and healthcare business. In a world of acceleration and transformation, Geopost engages and embraces new e-commerce territories with ESW via Asendia and Pourdebon.com.

With 57,000 employees, Geopost endeavors to make commerce more convenient, profitable, and sustainable for their customers and communities. Committed to becoming an international reference in sustainable delivery, Geopost is the first global delivery company to have its roadmap to Net Zero by 2040 approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).

Part of the LaPoste group, Geopost generated a €15.7 billion revenue and delivered 2.1 billion parcels worldwide in 2023.

As part of the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team, the Database Administrator will be responsible for the administration and operation of databases (mainly PostgreSQL, but also MariaDB, Cassandra, Teradata).

You will be the point of contact for all database-related issues and improvements.

You will be working in a high-availability environment with high performance requirements.

Your key activities

The database administrator (DBA) will be the guarantor of the performance and availability of all databases.

1. Database operation

1. You set up the supervision and monitoring of databases.
2. You control the execution of backups according to the backup policy that has been defined.
3. You are involved in the resolution of production incidents.
4. You provide support for other technical teams (SRE, Architects) and DevOps teams (IT Product manager, developers).

2. Change Process

1. You will be involved in automating database deployments or updates and will be responsible for maintaining inventories and repositories for all databases.
2. You will integrate new databases into the backup plan and maintenance tasks.
3. You will validate documentation and instruction sheets relating to the correct operation of the databases.
4. You will be the driving force behind proposals to improve database performance. You will carry out performance audits in collaboration with DevOps teams.
5. You will participate in root cause analysis for incident and problem management.
6. You will monitor and manage the implementation of database engine updates (version upgrades and patch management).
7. You will ensure that the database access security policy is properly applied.
8. You will be a major player in the implementation of active-active database solutions (multi-data centers).

Required Skills and Qualifications

Education: Bachelor / Master’s degree in computer science.

Experience: 10+ years of experience in data administration or a similar role in a Production environment.

Excellent communication skills: Fluent English (C1 minimum), in daily professional multi-cultural business environment (Read, Write, Communicate).

• Rigour and methods, collaborative work.
• Stress resistance.

Location: Budapest (Hungary), Issy-les-Moulineaux (France) or Warsaw (Poland), with 2 days of home office per week.

Occasional travel mainly within Europe (2 days per month max).