Senior Database Administrator

Job Purpose

Provides support to and maintains multiple production and/or non-production databases of significant and/or strategic impact across the enterprise. Responsible for standards and design of physical data storage, maintenance, access and security administration.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic engineering leadership to drive technology improvements
• Take ownership of projects to ensure successful implementation including Tech-Stack upgrade efforts
• Foster relationship and act as a technical liaison between the DBA Team and the Lines of Business
• Performs backup and recovery on Database Management Systems, configures database parameters and prototype designs against logical data models, and defines data repository requirements, data dictionaries and warehousing requirements
• Optimizes database access and allocates/re-allocates database resources for optimum configuration, database performance and cost
• Ensures service level agreements are met for internal and external clients
• Provides status reports that detail issues for escalation to management
• Performs configuration, scripting, analysis, installation, monitoring, administration and tuning for database management systems
• Performs data analysis to provide management with timely and accurate information and predict future requirements
• Develops, implements and tests database backup and recovery policies and procedures.
• Creates and maintains documentation for database policies, procedures, and processes.
• Performs/schedules routine maintenance on databases to keep them running at peak performance.
• Monitors database performance, availability, and capacity
• Review database storage utilization to ensure proper whitespace allocations
• Review and develop trend analysis for incident remediation and prevention  
• Participates in continuous business process redesign to improve internal operations
• Interfaces with user departments remotely and on-site to assist in the implementation of work requests and provide operational support
• Troubleshoots issues and recommends solutions
• Research and evaluate new RDBMS for possible implementation
• Performs other duties as required

Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience
• 9+ years of experience working with various database management systems in database design, testing, implementation, maintenance and administration in a multiple platform environment.
• Required to participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation
• Expert level knowledge of SQL Server database management systems (2012, 2014, 2017, & 2019 [SQL 2022 is a plus])
• Expert level knowledge SQL performance and tuning
• Expert level knowledge of Microsoft GEO-Clustering and Always-On Availability Groups in local and geographically dispersed data centers
• Extensive knowledge of task automation
• Strong database design and analysis skills
• Knowledge of backup and recovery operations for database management systems
• Knowledge of database encryption such as Always Encrypted, Protegrity, TDE, and TLS
• Knowledge of OS, storage, and network layers for troubleshooting purposes
• Knowledge of relational database concepts and terminology
• Ability to monitor and tune databases and instances
• Ability to maintain and monitor availability, security, and integrity of databases
• Ability to focus on production and customer needs and deliverables
• Ability to adapt to the use of new software tools as they are acquired or adopted within IT
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Must be self-motivated, a team player, and have a strong track record in customer satisfaction
• Demonstrated experience with successful system and project implementations

Preferred Knowledge and Experience

• Knowledge of PowerShell Scripting and Automation
• Knowledge of AWS – RDS SQL
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure RDBMS
• Knowledge of Cloud SaaS RDBMS
• Knowledge of OLA Hallengren maintenance plans
• Experience with scripting languages
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment with minimal supervision
• Ability to learn and apply new skills in a constantly changing technical environment