Senior Oracle Database Administrator
About The Position
Technologent is seeking a Senior Database Administrator (DBA) / Database Engineer with hands-on experience in database architecture, design, development, administration, and performance optimization across relational and NoSQL database technologies. The role focuses on Oracle, PostgreSQL, Couchbase, and Cassandra, and involves designing scalable, highly available, secure, and high-performing database solutions for enterprise applications. The work location is Sunrise, Florida, and the project duration is 12+ months on a contract basis. The position supports database solutions in on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. It includes database architecture and data modeling, SQL development and optimization, administration, security, high availability, replication, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, migrations, upgrades, modernization, incident troubleshooting, automation, and technical documentation. The DBA will collaborate with development teams on database design standards, coding practices, and efficient data access patterns.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional experience in database design, development, engineering, and administration.
- Strong hands-on experience with Oracle and PostgreSQL, including database architecture, SQL development, performance tuning, and administration.
- Practical experience with Couchbase and Cassandra, including NoSQL data modeling, cluster management, replication, and performance optimization.
- Strong understanding of relational and distributed database architecture, indexing strategies, partitioning, and query optimization.
- Experience implementing database high availability, backup/recovery, disaster recovery, and replication strategies using GoldenGate.
- Proficiency in SQL, PL/SQL, PL/pgSQL, and database scripting.
- Experience diagnosing and resolving complex production database issues.
- Strong knowledge of database security, access management, and data protection.
- Experience working in large-scale enterprise environments with mission-critical applications.
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, implement, and maintain enterprise database solutions using Oracle, PostgreSQL, Couchbase, and Cassandra.
- Perform database architecture and data modeling for relational and NoSQL databases.
- Develop and optimize complex SQL queries, stored procedures, functions, triggers, and database objects.
- Monitor and tune database performance, including query optimization, indexing, execution plans, and resource utilization.
- Design and implement high availability, replication using GoldenGate, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions.
- Support large-scale database migrations, platform upgrades, and modernization initiatives.
- Implement database security, access controls, encryption, auditing, and compliance best practices.
- Troubleshoot complex database issues, production incidents, and performance bottlenecks.
- Collaborate with development teams to establish database design standards, coding best practices, and efficient data access patterns.
- Automate routine database administration, monitoring, deployment, and maintenance activities.
- Support database solutions deployed in on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
- Develop technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and database standards.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Senior
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