Senior Database Administrator

Job Title: Senior Database Administrator

Location: Remote

Duration: 16 Months + Extension

Bill Rate: $68/hour

Job Type: C2C/1099 Contract

Client: To Be Discussed Later

Work Authorization: US-Citizen, H-1B, OPT-EAD, GC-EAD

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

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.

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer: We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.