MS SQL Server database administrator

Overview

The New York City Employees’ Retirement System (NYCERS) is seeking an experienced Certified IT Administrator (DATABASE) to join our IT Database unit in the Information Technology division. This position encompasses highly technical and supervisory responsibilities in SQL Server database administration, including monitoring, maintaining, enhancing, security management, data modeling, auditing, and supporting complex on-prem and cloud database systems and related functions. The successful candidate will possess strong technical skills in SQL Server database management and be able to work independently or as part of a team, often collaborating with other IT units and business users.

• Ensure system availability, recovery
• Execute performance tuning, backup, and restoration of databases
• Provide daily management of Microsoft SQL Server, infrastructure and service availability
• Maintain over 60 database servers across multiple environments (Development, Integration, QA, UAT and Production)
• Work with developers and infrastructure teams to provide world class services to the business community and NYCERS clients
• Develop and maintain procedures, best practices and standards documentation
• Enforce policies and procedures to ensure regulatory compliance
• Keep SQL servers up to date with necessary patches
• Promote application database changes to higher environments
• Perform server migration/upgrade activities
• Manage database storage based on design and determine operating system requirements. Estimate file sizes and growth
• Research, evaluate, and provide feedback on problematic trends and patterns
• Diagnose and resolve problems in response to reported incidents
• Assist in the preparation and support of data conversion, migration and Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) tools
• Lead by example and provide technical guidance to other IT DATABASE team members when required
• Perform other duties as assigned

Professional/Vendor Certification(s) in database administration that is required for the position to be filled. In addition, you must have one of the following:

• A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university, and two years of satisfactory full-time (not classroom based) experience in database administration. Experience must include database design, configuration, installation, troubleshooting, integration, performance monitoring, maintenance, enhancement, and security management;
• A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and six years of satisfactory full-time (not classroom based) information technology experience (IT) of which at least two years must have been database administration experience as described in the previous item;
• A satisfactory equivalent of education and/or experience equivalent to the above. Undergraduate education may be substituted for experience on the basis that 30 undergraduate semester credits from an accredited college or university are equivalent to 6 months of information technology experience, but may not be substituted for the required database administration experience. A masters degree in computer science or a related field may substitute for one year of database administration experience.
  
  However, all candidates must have at least one year of satisfactory full-time (not classroom based) database administration experience as described above.

• 7+ years’ experience in database administration of SQL Server database environments
• Working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server 2014/2016/2019+ with understanding of relational databases, T-SQL scripting, database normalization, and related concepts
• Proficient in database design and logical to physical database transformation
• Proficient with SQL development, including writing/troubleshooting SQL code, and designing/storing procedures, functions, tables, views, triggers, indexes, and constraints
• Experience troubleshooting and resolving database integrity and performance issues
• Proficient with performance tuning and query optimization
• Experience with database automation tools to support CI/CD database activities
• Experience on small, medium and large-scale projects
• Experience with SSIS, SSRS and SSAS
• Experience supporting ETL applications and data modeling concepts (conceptual, logical, physical)
• Experience with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team and independently with minimum supervision
• Prior experience leading small teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

55a Program:
This position is open to qualified persons with a disability who are eligible for the 55-a Program. Please indicate at the top of your resume and cover letter that you would like to be considered for the position through the 55-a Program.

Public Service Loan Forgiveness:
As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S.…