Job ID: 112093-1
Job Title: Sr Database Administrator - Production Reliability
Location: Sunnyvale, CA/ Austin TX (Onsite role)
Duration: 6 months
Pay Rate: $50-$55/hr on W2/C2C
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
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