Schwarz Digits | Germany | 74xxx Bad Friedrichshall | Permanent position | Full time | Published since: 28.09.2026 on stepstone.de
Database Administrator / DBA - PostgreSQL & MariaDB (m/f/d)
You have a successfully completed study of (economic) informatics or a comparable technical training in the IT sector with a multi-year well-founded professional experience in the database administration. You have deep expertise in managing and optimizing MariaDB and PostgreSQL. You have a strong understanding of the architectural dependencies between complex, Java-based enterprise applications (such as ServiceNow) and the relational database layer. You have practical experience in building up high-availability database architectures, replication mechanisms as well as backup and recovery strategies in the cloud environment. You live an agile mode of operation (Scrum, Kanban) and understand to integrate infrastructure requirements as “Infrastructure as Code” (IaC) into CI/CD pipelines. You have good communication skills as well as good German and good English skills. You are characterized by a quick understanding and a solution-oriented and independent way of working. .
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Black Digits creates the technological foundation for digital freedom of choice in Europe. As an IT and digital division of the Schwarz Group, we develop and manage the IT infrastructures for the Lidl and Kaufland trade divisions as well as the Black Production and PreZero. At the same time, we act as an independent provider on the external market to support companies across Europe in their digital transformation. We bundle our core services in the areas of cloud, cyber security, data & AI, communication and workspace. You also contribute to the digital freedom of choice in Europe.
With us you work at the interface between agility and security: You benefit from the fast decision-making, enjoy real design spaces in your projects and build on the stable foundation of the Schwarz Group.
You are responsible for the administration, scaling and performance optimization of our existing MariaDB and PostgreSQL clusters, which serve as the current database backup for our ServiceNow customer instances. You are used to anticipate conceptual work, and are planning and driving technologically the introduction as well as the transition to PostgreSQL in order to set up our platform in an architecturally future-proof manner. You ensure the high SLA requirements of our Sovereign Cloud Services, in particular High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery and a minimal database replication delay. You are actively working in the team to automate commissioning, cloning processes and self-healing mechanisms and have experience in handling Unix, Git, Terraform, Ansible and CI/CD pipelines. You monitor the database performance (e.g. SQL Response Times) in direct dependence on the Java-based ServiceNow application nodes and proactive troubleshooting. Participation in the willingness to call is of course for you. You implement security processes and regular patching of database systems in compliance with our compliance requirements (BSI C5, ISO 27001 and more). .
Location
 | Schwarz Digits | |
| 74177 Bad Friedrichshall | ||
| Germany |
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