Database Developer Expert

Job Title: Senior Database Administrator

Duration (Contract): 6 Months

Client Location: Austin TX

Location Preference: Onsite

Job Description:
As a Senior Database Administrator you will support and enhance large scale database environments by ensuring performance availability and reliability across multiple platforms. You will work closely with engineering and product teams in an Agile environment contributing to database design administration and strategy while driving automation operational consistency and best practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Administer and maintain Oracle PostgreSQL and SQL Server environments across development and production.
• Perform database lifecycle management including upgrades migrations patching and automation.
• Optimize database performance through tuning indexing strategies and capacity planning.
• Troubleshoot production issues perform root cause analysis and implement preventive solutions.
• Support high availability and disaster recovery strategies including failover and recovery processes.
• Participate in on call support rotation for production systems.
• Develop and maintain scripts to automate database maintenance and operational tasks.
• Create and maintain technical documentation runbooks and operational standards.
• Mentor junior and mid level team members and promote best practices.

Required Skills Experiences Education and Competencies:

• 12 years of experience in Oracle database administration including RAC ASM and Data Guard.
• Strong experience across development and production DBA responsibilities including backup recovery and monitoring.
• Proficiency with Oracle Enterprise Manager and data replication tools.
• Advanced SQL and PL/SQL expertise with performance tuning experience.
• Knowledge of database security practices including access control and auditing.
• Experience with scripting and automation using shell Perl or PowerShell.
• Experience supporting high availability and disaster recovery environments.
• Exposure to ETL or data movement processes involving large datasets.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and collaboration tools.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science IT or equivalent experience preferred.

The hourly range for roles of this nature are $55.00 to $75.00/hr. Rates are heavily dependent on skills experience location and industry.

cyberThink is an Equal Opportunity Employer.