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Founded in 1910, KONE is a global leader that provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our world’s cities better places to live by providing innovative solutions that help make people’s journeys safe, convenient and reliable. Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as an innovation and sustainability leader with repeated recognitions by Forbes, Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others.
KONE’s vision is to create the Best People Flow experience by providing ease, effectiveness and experience to our customers and users. In line with our strategy, Sustainable Success with Customers, we will focus on increasing the value we create for customers with new intelligent solutions and embed sustainability even deeper across all of our operations. By closer collaboration with customers and partners, KONE will increase the speed of bringing new services and solutions to the market.
KONE Technology and Innovation Unit (KTI) is where we combine the physical world – escalators and elevators – with smart and connected digital systems. We are changing and improving the way billions of people move within buildings every day. We are on a mission to expand and develop new digital solutions that are based on emerging technologies.
KONE IT is a global team of expert professionals working along with business functions and area teams to develop new capabilities and enable new business opportunities. We are trusted partners of KONE business lines and functions to develop, transform, manage and run their information technology solutions. We support KONE in its digital transformation journey by introducing e.g. digital cloud-based IT services, artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to support productivity, business growth and technological disruption. Sustainability, curious mindset and innovation are at the core of everything we do, and this makes us an integral part of KONE’s success.
We are looking for a Senior DevOps Specialist, PDM databases to strengthen KONE’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) team.
We are looking for a Senior DevOps Specialist, PDM Databases to operate, monitor, and continuously improve our mission‑critical AWS Aurora PostgreSQL database environment. The role is responsible for ensuring high availability, performance, security, and operational excellence of our production database platforms that support key business applications.
This position requires hands‑on expertise in PostgreSQL internals, AWS Aurora operations, monitoring, performance tuning, and strong automation skills.
What You Will Do
Operate, monitor, and maintain our AWS Aurora PostgreSQL environment
Optimize database performance using query analysis, execution plans, and indexing strategies
Ensure disaster recovery readiness
Configure PostgreSQL parameters, extensions, and support efficient database usage
Implement monitoring and alerting using CloudWatch, Performance Insights, and related tools
Automate operational tasks using scripting and infrastructure-as-code practices
Collaborate with application, cloud, and platform teams to improve reliability and scalability
What We’re Looking For
Technical skills
Strong experience administering PostgreSQL in production (vacuum, WAL, tuning)
Strong hands-on expertise with AWS Aurora PostgreSQL: cluster management, failover, parameter groups
Ability to diagnose performance issues with pg_stat_statements, execution plans, and Aurora metrics
Strong SQL skills with proven experience in query optimization
Experience with AWS monitoring tools: CloudWatch Logs, Enhanced Monitoring, Performance and Log Insights
Proficiency in automation/scripting
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation)
Preferred experience
Working with large-scale, high-throughput database systems
Experience with indexing strategies, and performance benchmarking
Background in operating highly available distributed architectures
Prior involvement in incident management and root cause analysis
Exposure to compliance, auditing, and secure database operations
Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows
Practical experience in cloud based AWS production environments supporting and developing scalable, global services.based
Soft skills
Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset
Clear, concise communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences
Ability to work independently in a production-critical environment
Proactive approach to identifying improvements and preventing issues
Strong collaboration skills across engineering and product teams
Structured, methodical working style with attention to detail
Ownership mentality and commitment to reliability
Education and certifications
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field
PostgreSQL certifications (e.g., EDB PostgreSQL Associate/Professional) are a plus
AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Database – Specialty or AWS Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional are highly valued
Training or coursework in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or data engineering
Continuous learning mindset with up-to-date knowledge of PostgreSQL and AWS advancements
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At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.
Read more on https://careers.kone.com/en/
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