Title: Sr Database Administrator - Production Reliability
Location: Austin, TX Day 1 Onsite
Duration: Full Time/Permanent Role
Salary Range: $100,000 - $135,000 Per Year + Benefits
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills
- 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 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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