This is Worldline 

Worldline is one of the leading and most innovative payment service providers in Europe. As experts in financial processing and software licensing we provide services to fulfill all needs of the dynamic European payments market. We process billions of payments, POS and ATM transactions per year. Obviously, all those transactions must be processed seamlessly, securely and efficiently. And that’s what we do. Being a central pillar of the wider Worldline Group, it’s our ambition to support our clients in keeping up with the rapidly shifting market demands. A challenging job, as the payments market – and therefore also our organization – is subject to continuous change. And you can contribute to achieving this goal! 

Day-to-Day Responsibilities​ 

You´ll be part of a dynamic international DBA team of 40 professionals (9 local colleagues in Riga) throughout Europe working close together. In this environment your typical responsibilities will be to: 

• Provide technical expertise, project and production support for the Oracle database eco-system 

• Drive architecture design on customer projects and act as a trusted advisor on Oracle database for delivering highly performing, secured and resilient database systems 

• Deploy, upgrade, maintain and optimize Oracle database and Enterprise Management software 

• Implement high-availability (HA) and disaster-recovery (DRP) architectures using Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Data Guard, Golden Gate data replication 

• Implement backup and recovery strategies using Recovery Manager (RMAN), Data Pump, etc. 

• Support Oracle database migrations and operations in a mixed on-premise / private cloud / public cloud operational model (IaaS – PaaS – SaaS) 

• Facilitate and actively participate in all phases of the project life cycle: functional and non-functional requirements gathering and analysis, solution design and development, testing and implementation, post-production support and platform evolution 

• Support customers in benchmarking to identify bottlenecks, provide guidance on performance tuning and optimization of Oracle database, robustness and business continuity testing 

• Provision Oracle instances within application release delivery support incl. SQL optimization 

• Write accurate and concise technical documentation, participate in regulatory compliancy audits 

• Deliver management and automation tools used transversally within the company 

• Deliver internal trainings on Oracle database and accompanying technologies (e.g. Automatic Storage Management (ASM), Enterprise Manager (OEM), Internet Directory (OID), etc.) 

• Align processes and reinforce collaboration between international database teams 

Who Are We Looking For 

We look for big thinkers. People who can drive positive change, step up and show what’s next – people with passion, can-do attitude and a hunger to learn and grow. In practice this means: 

• Minimum 3 years working experience with Oracle database infrastructure in production environment 

• A big plus is to have PostgreSQL knowledge 

• A plus is if you have experience from working in any public cloud environment 

• Ability to work and communicate in an international multi-cultural environment (professional skills in English language is needed) 

• Problem solving and analytical capabilities and a strong interest in supporting complex, business critical, highly available and secured database systems which are subjected to internal and external compliancy audits 

• We need you to have a high degree of initiative, accuracy, efficiency and attention to detail but also to keep a positive attitude under sometimes challenging circumstances 

• Ability to sometimes work outside office hours (incl. weekends) for planned interventions and participate in 24x7 on-call DBA weekly rotating team role (paid) 

• High aptitude for learning and high degree of self-motivation in order to acquire new competencies and accepting new technical and organizational challenges 

• Working knowledge of Oracle database (19c) coupled with production support experience in a multi-service, cross-regional distributed environment, high availability and data replication, performance troubleshooting, security 

• Working knowledge of Oracle Grid Infrastructure (19c), Data Guard, Real Application Clusters (RAC), Automatic Storage Management (ASM) and Recovery Manager (RMAN) in business-critical, real-time production environments 

• Oracle database incident troubleshooting and performance tuning skills including system, storage and network configuration, as well as tracing facilities 

• Good practical knowledge of SQL and PL/SQL languages including performance tuning 

• Basic knowledge of logical and physical relational data modelling (OLTP/DWH) 

• Working knowledge of Linux (RHEL) (Unix desirable) operating systems in a multi-domain environment including virtualization and clustering products 

• Working knowledge of task automation (shell scripting) 

• Working knowledge of Oracle monitoring and administration tools (Enterprise Manager Cloud Control) 

Perks & Benefits 

• Depending on education, skills and working experience, your gross annual salary will be between EUR 25K and EUR 50K gross/year based on a full-time employment contract 

• Health insurance 

• Corporate team building events (Christmas and New Year Breakfast, etc.) 

• Allowance in case of marriage, the birth of a child, the funeral of relatives 

• Seniority gift (age jubilee) 

• Company bonus (applied by Worldline policy) 

• Brand new office in central Riga with free parking and hybrid work model 

• Interesting and challenging international working environment with enough space for professional and personal development and a good work-life balance 

• Opportunity to work and develop skills on other database technologies (relational and non-relational) such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB 

• Professional training and certification in private and public cloud technologies with focus on DBaaS (Amazon Web Services - AWS, Google Cloud Platform - GCP, Microsoft Azure Cloud) 

Shape the evolution 

We are pushing towards the next frontiers of payments technology, and we look for big thinkers to join our journey. People with passion, can-do attitude and a hunger to learn and grow. Here you’ll work with ambitious colleagues from around the world, take on unique challenges as a team, and make a real impact on society. And with our empowering culture, strong technology and extensive training opportunities, we help you accelerate your career. Wherever you decide to go. Join our global team of over 18,000 innovators across 40+ countries, and shape a tomorrow that is yours to own. 

Learn more about life at Worldline at jobs.worldline.com  

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as an individual with a disability, or any applicable legally protected characteristics.