OPIS Senior Database Administrator

About Our Organization:

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world’s largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America’s largest newspaper by paid circulation;
Barron’s, Market Watch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Investor’s Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

Our Technology team drives the evolution of our Technology, Engineering, Data, Product and User Experience functions. With a keen focus on delivering cutting‑edge solutions, we shape the digital landscape for our customers, readers, and users. From revolutionizing visuals to optimizing tools and harnessing the power of data, mobile, video, and social platforms, our team is committed to providing a seamless and immersive experience across all touchpoints.

Collaborating closely with our newsrooms and strategic partners, we spearhead the development of groundbreaking products and technologies.

OPIS, a Dow Jones company, provides price transparency across the global fuel supply chain, including the Spot, Wholesale Rack and Retail markets. The OPIS Cloud Operations team supports the OPIS business by ensuring the overall operational performance, security, and reliability of OPIS’ cloud environments. The team works closely with the OPIS Product development teams with a focus on high availability and continuous operation, resource allocation and monitoring, compliance, and financial management.

It provides guidance, defines guardrails and ensures compliance with corporate, and business unit, as well as industry, best practices and standards. The team is responsible for the configuration and management of the operational infrastructure of the OPIS cloud environments including the OPIS database systems for OPIS applications. This role is a part of the OPIS Cloud Operations team, working with OPIS Product team’s software engineers and database developers.

As a Senior Database Administrator,

• Oversee and manage OPIS database systems (MS SQL and IBM DB2) and their infrastructure to ensure optimal performance, availability, and security.
• Manage database and database objects design, configuration, and testing activities to ensure the performance of the databases in support of OPIS applications from development to production.
• Monitor system health, database availability and performance, diagnose and resolve technical issues, resolve database performance and capacity issues, replication and other distributed data issues, and implement proactive measures to prevent disruptions.
• Plan and execute database system housekeeping, such as tuning, indexing, etc. and upgrades, data migration, and security patches.
• Design database backup, archiving, and storage strategy. As well as develop and implement OPIS database systems disaster recovery plans and procedures.
• Collaborate with OPIS product teams to leverage our database systems in order to design optimal solutions, and support the development and deployment of new systems and products.
• Provide advanced database technical support and offer timely and effective solutions to complex challenges.
• Create and maintain database standards and policies and comprehensive documentation for database system configurations, processes, and procedures using Atlassian Confluence and Azure Dev Ops.

• BS in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or related field preferred with 4 years of relevant experience, or 7 years of relevant experience
• Proven expertise in administering Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2 databases, as well as highly available database technologies (Microsoft Replication, Log Shipping, Mirroring, Failover Clustering, IBM DB2 HADR)
• Proven experience…