Senior Database Administrator Production Reliability

Senior Database Administrator - Production Reliability

Austin TX / Sunnyvale CA

Rate: $60/hr. to $65/hr.
Contract ROle

Required Technical Skill Set:
Oracle MongoDB PostgreSQL High Availability Performance Tuning Backup/PITR Disaster Recovery Monitoring and Automation

Must-Have
8 years of experience in database engineering administration and production support.
Hands-on expertise in Oracle MongoDB and PostgreSQL including high availability replication clustering patching and upgrades.
Strong experience in performance tuning query Eligible to workimization indexing capacity planning backup PITR and disaster recovery.
Ability to monitor and troubleshoot complex production issues perform root-cause analysis and support on-call operations.
Working knowledge of Linux/Unix and scripting or automation using Python Shell or equivalent tools.

Good-to-Have
Experience with AWS Azure or Google Cloud managed database services.
Knowledge of infrastructure as code CI/CD and database observability tools such as Prometheus Grafana Splunk or ELK/OpenSearch.
Understanding of ITIL processes and experience preparing runbooks operational dashboards and DR test reports.
Relevant database cloud or site reliability engineering certifications.

Responsibility / Expectation
Administer and maintain highly available Oracle MongoDB and PostgreSQL production environments.
Perform database performance tuning query Eligible to workimization indexing and capacity planning.
Monitor database health replication storage connections locks and resource consumption and resolve issues proactively.
Lead database incident triage service restoration root-cause analysis and preventive actions.
Automate provisioning monitoring maintenance backup validation recovery testing and operational reporting.
Partner with application and platform teams on schema design migrations releases security and non-functional requirements.
Maintain database documentation runbooks DR evidence and operational status updates for stakeholders.
Design and manage robust backup point-in-time recovery (PITR) failover and DR strategies to guarantee strict Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) targets.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC