Sr. Database Administrator

Job Title: Sr. Database Administrator Location: Austin, TX, (Hybrid)- 3 days remote with 2 days (Mon & Fri) required to be onsite Position Type: Contract Interview Mode: In-personRoles & ResponsibilitiesAdminister and maintain Oracle and Microsoft SQL databases supporting enterprise applications. Perform database tuning, indexing, and performance optimization to ensure high availability. Migrate data from Oracle databases to Azure SQL and support data conversion activities. Convert Oracle Stored Procedures, Functions, and database objects to Azure SQL. Design, maintain, and optimize logical and physical data models. Monitor database performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement performance improvements. Execute database installations, upgrades, patching, and troubleshooting activities. Manage database security, user access, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery processes. Implement data replication, archiving, and database maintenance policies. Support high availability, clustering, and load balancing configurations. Collaborate with development teams in an Agile (Scrum) environment to support application development and deployment. Ensure database integrity, availability, and reliability across production and non-production environments.II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS Minimum Requirements: Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity. Years Required/Preferred Experience 10 Required Database experience 8 Required Experience with Oracle, Microsoft SQL - (or similar) 8 Required Experience with Relational Database Administration - (SQL Server or Oracle, for example) 8 Required Experience in database design, analysis and performance tuning 8 Required Experience in database structures, data analysis, performance tuning 8 Required Experience designing enterprise applications and/or services 8 Required Experience creating technical and functional design documentation 8 Required Experience within software development Life Cycle using Agile methodology – (Scrum, for example) 8 Required Experience with multi-tier system/application development – (SOA, Microservices, 3-Tier applications, for example) 8 Preferred Experience with large volume databases, high availability, and disaster recovery infrastructure 6 Preferred Experience with Azure 6 Preferred Ability to Extract, transform, and load (ETL) data from various sources into Azure SQL 3 Preferred Experience in DevOps technology including CI/CD pipeline and build and deployment tools such as Git 3 Preferred Experience in Java/J2EE Enterprise Development 1 Preferred Azure certification is preferred 1 Preferred DBA Associate certifications are preferred