Senior Database Administrator, Production Reliability

Job overview

The Senior Database Administrator, Production Reliability role is onsite, with listed locations in Sunnyvale, CA and Austin, TX. Compensation is $50–$53 per hour. The position supports production database reliability across Oracle, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL environments. The role exists to maintain highly available production databases and help ensure service continuity through monitoring, performance tuning, incident response, automation, and recovery planning. It also partners with application and platform teams on database changes and operational requirements.

What you'll do

• Administer and maintain highly available Oracle, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL production environments
• tune performance, optimize queries, manage indexing, and plan capacity
• monitor database health and resolve issues
• lead incident triage, service restoration, root-cause analysis, and preventive actions
• automate provisioning, monitoring, maintenance, backup validation, recovery testing, and reporting
• partner with application and platform teams on schema design, migrations, releases, security, and non-functional requirements
• maintain documentation, runbooks, disaster-recovery evidence, and stakeholder updates
• design and manage backup, point-in-time recovery, failover, and disaster-recovery strategies. Support on-call operations.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior database administrator

production reliability

sunnyvale ca

austin tx

oracle

mongodb

postgresql

database engineering

performance tuning

disaster recovery

on-call operations

$50–$53 per hour

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Six-month duration, extendable; requires 8 years of database engineering, administration, and production support experience; on-call operations are part of the role.

About the employer

Artech LLC is hiring for this role. Industry: All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services. Sector: 54.