Oracle Senior Database Administrator
Austin, TX
Date Posted:11-May-2026
Work Type:On-Site
Job Number:484808
Job Description
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.
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.
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