Sr Database Administrator - Production Reliability

Job Title: Sr Database Administrator - Production Reliability

Location: Austin, TX/Sunnyvale, CA(Onsite)

Experience: 8+ years of experience

Type of hire: Fulltime

Job Description

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.

Good To Have

• Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud managed database services.
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and database observability tools such as

• Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or ELK/OpenSearch.

• Understanding ITIL processes and experience preparing runbooks, operational dashboards, and

• DR test reports.

• Relevant database, cloud, or site reliability engineering certifications.

• 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