Senior Database Administrator
About The Position
Provides advanced database administration across SQL Server, Oracle, and PostgreSQL platforms supporting grid and market systems. This 12-month contract role delivers hands-on operational support across the full service lifecycle, executing complex and standard database work, handling escalations, and providing technical guidance to peers as needed. The role owns advanced troubleshooting, replication management with an emphasis on Oracle GoldenGate, proactive monitoring and tuning through Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), performance optimization, and disaster recovery execution. Success requires dependability, teamwork, quick learning, effective collaboration across application, infrastructure, and compliance teams, and appropriate autonomy in coordinating operational changes within a regulated environment. The position is hybrid, with 2–3 days in the office; remote work will not be considered. After-hours support for incidents, maintenance, and recovery events is required as needed. The contract duration is 12 months. The base pay range is $75–$81.
Requirements
- Five to eight years of progressively responsible database administration experience in multi-platform environments involving Oracle, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.
- Hands-on Oracle GoldenGate replication administration experience.
- Experience with proactive monitoring and tuning through Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM).
- Advanced production-environment experience with troubleshooting, high availability and disaster recovery, backup and recovery, performance tuning, and patching coordination for business-critical applications.
- Proficiency with scripting and automation, including Python and shell scripting.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Must be authorized to work in the United States.
- Must pass a background check and drug screening.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in a regulated environment subject to NERC CIP or SOC is strongly preferred.
- Experience with configuration-management and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Ansible and Terraform is a plus.
- Familiarity with the ServiceNow IT service management platform is a plus.
- Oracle Certified Professional – Database Administrator certification.
- Oracle GoldenGate certification or demonstrated equivalent experience.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate certification.
- PostgreSQL certification, such as EDB PostgreSQL Associate/Professional, or demonstrated equivalent experience.
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate or equivalent infrastructure-as-code certification.
Responsibilities
- Troubleshoot and resolve database outages, performance degradation, replication failures, backup exceptions, and availability events across SQL Server, Oracle, and PostgreSQL.
- Administer and support Oracle GoldenGate replication, including heterogeneous configurations, monitoring, lag analysis, conflict resolution, trail management, and switchover support.
- Support high-availability and disaster-recovery configurations, including Oracle Data Guard, SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, and PostgreSQL replication and clustering; prepare, execute, and validate failovers.
- Monitor, analyze, and tune databases using OEM, Oracle AWR and ASH, SQL Server Management Studio, and PostgreSQL monitoring tools; address query performance, resource contention, and capacity constraints.
- Perform backup, recovery, and disaster recovery activities using Rubrik Cloud Data Management and native platform utilities, and test and validate recovery procedures against defined RPO and RTO targets.
- Plan and execute database patching, security updates, and version upgrades through ServiceNow change management, including risk assessment, testing coordination, rollback planning, and post-change validation.
- Coordinate schema changes with application development teams, including index optimization, deployment sequencing, and environment refreshes.
- Support database access reviews, least-privilege enforcement, and compliance evidence collection for NERC CIP and SOC audits; contribute to compliance assessments for the database service area.
- Develop automation with Ansible, Python, shell scripting, PowerShell, PL/SQL, and Transact-SQL; contribute to infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform and Git where applicable.
- Perform assigned database tasks during monthly data center site switchover exercises, including failover execution, replication validation, and post-switchover verification.
- Maintain and improve knowledge articles, runbooks, operational standards, and support documentation.
- Manage incidents, service requests, and change records in ServiceNow; coordinate and track vendor support tickets through resolution.
- Contribute to capacity planning and lifecycle management by analyzing database growth, storage utilization, and platform lifecycle timelines.
- Participate in incident post-mortems, root cause analysis, and corrective action planning.
- Provide cross-training to team members and operational partners.
Benefits
- Medical coverage through Florida Blue.
- Dental coverage through Florida Blue.
- Vision coverage through Florida Blue.
- Short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Employer-paid life insurance.
- Participation in the MWResource 401K plan for US-based consultants.
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