Database Developer

job summary:

At Client, you're empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us "challenge the status quo" and transform the finance industry together. We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).

Client is a firm that leads with integrity and service, succeeds together as one team, and provides the opportunity to own your tomorrow. In this role, you'll help modernize and strengthen the database platforms that support our Advisor Services business-work that directly enables scalable, reliable, and secure client-facing applications.

What You'll Do

As a Senior Database Administrator on the Advisor Services Database Team, you'll partner with engineers and product teams to support large-scale platforms and applications in a fast-moving, agile environment. You'll contribute hands-on across development, DB administration, setting up future strategy/strategic planning, and production needs while helping raise the bar through automation, consistency, and mentoring.

location: Austin, Texas

job type: Contract

salary: $72.68 - 77.68 per hour

work hours: 8am to 5pm

education: Bachelors



responsibilities:

Key responsibilities include:

- Support and evolve Oracle (primary), PostgreSQL, and SQL Server environments through database maintenance, lifecycle management, migrations, upgrades, and automation.

- Tune and optimize performance, availability, and reliability (including capacity planning, indexing strategies, and workload analysis).

- Partner on patching and change execution, including scheduled after-hours and weekend maintenance as needed.

- Troubleshoot production issues end-to-end, develop cleanup and maintenance scripts, and drive root-cause resolution to prevent recurrence.

- Support high availability and disaster recovery capabilities (failover readiness, recovery processes, and operational validation).

- Participate in production support on-call rotation 24/7, including weekends as scheduled.

- Create and maintain technical documentation, operational runbooks, and best practices to support consistent operations and knowledge sharing.

- Mentor and guide junior and mid-level team members through coaching, pairing, and review of technical approaches.

qualifications:

PostgreSQL administration experience (including pgAdmin), on-prem and/or cloud; Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL experience is a plus.

- SQL Server administration and performance tuning experience.

- Foglight experience is a plus.

- Experience designing enterprise solutions for backup, monitoring, alerting, security compliance, and patching.

- Prior experience in the financial services industry.

- Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) certification.

- Demonstrated experience mentoring others and contributing to team learning and shared standards.

- Process improvement experience using AI is a plus.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact

Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.