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Database Administrator III

Theron Partners Inc.Austin, TX🇺🇸United StatesPosted 28 Jul 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Job Title: Database Administrator III

Location: Austin, TX

Duration: 12-24+ Months Contract

Schedule: Hybrid Role (
2 days in office, 3 days remote)





Job Description:

Summary:


The contractor role is for a Senior Database Administrator (Database Administrator III) and will perform advanced database administration tasks for databases used by applications with complex data models, workflows, and reports. Assists the team in creating and maintaining logical and physical data models. The successful candidate will work with Full-stack Java applications on Client s cloud platform (Azure/AWS) within an Agile (Scrum) environment. The role will involve migrating data from Oracle applications to SQL schemas and loading it into collections. Additionally, the candidate will optimize database performance during and after migration, identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, and implement monitoring solutions to track database health and performance metrics. The DBA III works on activities including but not limited to database tuning, indexing, customization, transformation, data migrations/conversions, installations, troubleshooting, upgrades, patching, user management, security of data at rest and in motion, disaster recovery, clustering for high availability and load balancing, data backup, purging and archiving, implementation of database policies, data replication and backup to secondary sites like disaster recovery environments, procedures for the integrity, availability, and confidentiality of the sensitive and business-critical databases. The role will involve working closely with the team to create and maintain logical and physical data models, with a primary focus on Oracle and Azure Microsoft SQL. This role will require converting Oracle Stored Procedures and Functions to Azure SQL.


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
Experience
Needed

Required/
Preferred

Skills/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

Skills

Microservices
Oracle
SQL
SQL Server
AWS
ETL
Load Balancing
Scrum
Agile
Azure
Git
Java
REST

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