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Oracle Senior Database Administrator
 Spectraforce Technologies | |
 United States, Texas, Austin | |
| 2435 East Riverside Drive (Show on map) | |
 May 12, 2026 | |
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Role: Oracle Senior Database Administrator
Location: Austin, TX or Dallas, TX (office 4 days a week) Duration: 6+ Months 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. 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. * Bachelor's 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. | |