Senior Oracle Database Administrator

Akkodis is seeking a Database Administrator for 06 Months Contract position with our Direct Client located in Austin, TX/ Dallas, TX (Hybrid- 4 days/week Onsite).

Pay Range: $72 - $75/hr on W2; The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.

Job Description:

As a Senior Database Administrator on the Advisor Services Database Team, youll partner with engineers and product teams to support large-scale platforms and applications in a fast-moving, agile environment. Youll 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.

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.

What you have:

To ensure that we fulfill our promise of challenging the status quo, this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have:

Required Qualifications:

• 12 years of hands-on Oracle Database Administration experience, including RAC (Real Application Clusters), ASM, and Data Guard.
• Willingness to work in weekends and night shifts / US timing
• Hands-on experience across DEV and PROD DBA responsibilities, including upgrades, migrations, patching, backup/recovery, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Proficiency with Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) and GoldenGate.
• Advanced SQL and PL/SQL skills, including performance tuning and optimization.
• Working knowledge of database security concepts (access controls, auditing, patching practices, and compliance-aligned operations).
• Scripting and automation experience (e.g., shell scripting, Perl, PowerShell) to streamline operational and maintenance tasks.
• Experience supporting high-availability and recovery capabilities, including troubleshooting failover scenarios and DR support.
• Experience developing or supporting ETL/data movement processes for large data sets.
• Experience using collaboration and delivery tools such as Microsoft Teams, Jira, Confluence, Remedy, Bamboo, and Bitbucket.
• Exposure to DevOps practices and tools (e.g., GitHub, GitHub Actions, Bamboo).
• Ability to write and maintain clear technical documentation and knowledge artifacts.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred 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.

If you are interested in this role, then please click APPLY NOW. For other opportunities available at Akkodis, or any questions, please contact Ayush Garg at 610-735-6513 or ayush.garg@akkodisgroup.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Benefit offerings include medical, dental, vision, term life insurance, short-term disability insurance, additional voluntary benefits, commuter benefits, and a 401K plan. Our program provides employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. Available paid leave may include Paid Sick Leave, where required by law; any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law; and Holiday pay upon meeting eligibility criteria. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs which are direct hire to a client.

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