Database Administrator

Overview

Job Summary Under limited supervision, coordinates, designs, and secures computer databases to store, track, and maintain a large volume of critical business information. Serves as highest advanced-level subject matter expert, providing authoritative guidance for professional staff. May also serve in a lead role.

• Manage all aspects of physical database administration including schema management; security, setup, installations, upgrades, patches, backup and recovery, space management, performance tuning and capacity planning for SQL Server.
• Support application teams and their projects to enhance, troubleshoot and performance tune.
• Support SQL Server databases in Production, Test and Development environments and within Microsoft SharePoint farm.
• Install, upgrade, configure ALWAYS ON, test and deploy complex database software.
• Develop and implement database recovery plans and procedures.
• Analyze the performance of databases and recommend tuning and application changes.
• Implement user authentication and validate database security protocols across systems.
• Review system design and develop new database systems as needed.
• Modify database structures or deploy schema changes as a result of new requirements.
• Scripting batch data loads and operational job automation.
• Working knowledge of Cohesity Backup Appliance.
• Working knowledge of cloud technology and governance.

Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field from an accredited college or university AND Seven years of experience in support of an operating system, database management system or a related field
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• 6+ years of hands-on administrative experience with SQL Server RDBMS
• 6+ years of hands-on experience managing backup, recovery, and high-availability scenarios
• 6+ years of hands-on experience in SQL Server database development and performance tuning
• 6+ years of hands-on experience with Microsoft Operating Systems, SQL Server clustered environments, database optimization, and T-SQL programming
• 6+ years of strong SQL query development and scripting experience
• 4+ years of strong knowledge and hands-on experience with Always On High Availability Groups
• 4+ years of strong experience with SQL Server migrations
• 3+ years of experience in database space management, storage design, and capacity planning following best practices
• 4+ years of demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with technical teams and management
• 3+ years of experience creating entity relationship diagrams (ERDs), database documentation, data dictionaries, and system architecture documentation