Database Administration
- Oracle, MySQL, and MariaDB
- User and permission management
- Routine DDL/DML updates
- Schema changes and maintenance
- Backup verification and restore testing
- Routine health checks and monitoring
High-Availability and Recovery
- RAC and ASM architecture and support
- HA/DR design and implementation
- Replication setup and optimization
- Failover testing and validation
- Migration planning
- Backup and recovery strategy
Performance Tuning
- Query optimization
- Index strategy and tuning
- Storage engine optimization
- Slow query analysis
- Workload and capacity assessment
- End-to-end performance triage
Systems Engineering
- Unix/Linux systems support
- Shell, Perl, and Python scripting
- Server configuration and optimization
- Health checks, monitoring, alerting
- Security hardening and compliance checks
Data Engineering and Analytics
- Data architecture design
- ETL/ELT pipeline development
- Data modeling and schema design
- Analytics infrastructure setup
- Performance tuning for analytics workloads
- BI and reporting strategy guidance
Migrations and Modernization
- Database migrations
- On-prem and on-prem to cloud
- Patching and upgrades
- Legacy system modernization
- Storage and I/O optimization
- Architecture redesign and refactor
Documentation and Technical Writing
- Runbooks and SOPs
- Architecture diagrams and documentation
- Onboarding and training materials
- Post-mortem and RCA reports
- Migration guides and operational manuals
Fractional Leadership
- Fractional CTO or Chief Data Architect
- Technical strategy and roadmapping
- Team mentoring and leadership support
- Vendor and technology evaluation
- Executive-level communication and reporting
- Backup and recovery strategy
Emergency Support
- Outage response
- Performance crisis resolution
- Urgent troubleshooting
- Rapid stabilization and recovery
General Technical Support
- For issues that don’t fit neatly into a category, but still need attention