Sr Database Administrator - Production Reliability

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: Sr Database Administrator - Production Reliability
Location: Sunnyvale, CA/ Austin TX
Duration: 6 months (Extendable)
Pay Range: $50-54/Hour on W2/C2C (All Inclusive)
Request ID: 112094-1

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Position Summary:
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 optimization, 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.
Responsibilities / Expectations from the Role

Responsibility / Expectation
" Administer and maintain highly available Oracle, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL production environments.
" Perform database performance tuning, query optimization, 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.

Skills: Digital : Mongo DB~PostgreSQL~Data

Experience- 8