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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