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I am Mohammed Dastagir with Saxon Global Inc wanted to let you know about the job opportunity for Senior Oracle Database Administrator position if interested please share your updated resume along with expecting rate.
Job Title: Senior Oracle Database Administrator
Location: Onsite 4X A week in Dallas or Austin, TX offices.
Duration: 12 Months
Only on W2
About the Role
In this role, you will help modernize and strengthen database platforms that support critical business operations—enabling scalable, secure, and reliable applications.
You’ll join a collaborative engineering environment where innovative thinking and problem-solving are encouraged. This position offers the opportunity to contribute to both day-to-day operations and long-term strategy for large-scale database systems.
Role Overview
As a Senior Database Administrator, you will play a key role in managing and evolving complex database environments in a fast-paced, agile setting. You will work closely with engineering and product teams to support production systems, improve performance, and drive automation.
This is a hands-on role spanning database administration, performance optimization, reliability engineering, and technical mentorship.
What You’ll Do
- Support and enhance Oracle (primary), PostgreSQL, and SQL Server environments across development and production
- Perform database maintenance, lifecycle management, migrations, upgrades, and automation
- Drive performance tuning and optimization, including indexing strategies, workload analysis, and capacity planning
- Partner on patching and change management, including scheduled after-hours and weekend maintenance
- Troubleshoot production issues end-to-end and implement long-term fixes to prevent recurrence
- Support high availability and disaster recovery, including failover readiness and validation
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, including weekends, as scheduled
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational best practices
- Mentor and support junior team members through coaching and technical guidance
- Contribute to strategic planning and continuous improvement, including automation and standardization efforts
Required Qualifications
- 12 years of hands-on Oracle Database Administration experience
- Including RAC (Real Application Clusters), ASM, and Data Guard
- Experience across development and production DBA responsibilities, including upgrades, migrations, patching, monitoring, and backup/recovery
- Proficiency with Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) and GoldenGate
- Advanced SQL and PL/SQL skills with a focus on performance tuning
- Knowledge of database security practices, including access control, auditing, and compliance
- Experience with scripting and automation (e.g., Shell, Perl, PowerShell)
- Experience supporting high-availability and disaster recovery environments
- Experience with ETL/data movement processes for large datasets
- Familiarity with collaboration and delivery tools such as Jira, Confluence, Bamboo, Bitbucket, Remedy, and Microsoft Teams
- Exposure to DevOps practices and CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub, GitHub Actions)
- Strong technical documentation skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Willingness to support after-hours and weekend work aligned to operational needs
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with PostgreSQL administration (on-prem and/or cloud environments)
- Experience with SQL Server administration and performance tuning
- Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Foglight
- Experience designing enterprise solutions for backup, monitoring, alerting, and security compliance
- Background in highly regulated industries (e.g., financial services)
- Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) certification
- Proven experience mentoring team members and contributing to team standards
- Experience leveraging automation or AI tools for process improvement
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