Senior Database Administrator

Job Description

This position requires living in the state of Utah. It cannot be done remotely.

Salt Lake County…A career with a purpose in the community you love!

Salt Lake County invites you to explore our exciting career opportunities. We seek highly enthusiastic individuals to enrich our County with your experience and talent. If you enjoy working in a team environment that is committed to changing the lives of its community, please keep reading.

What it is like to work here:

At Salt Lake County our culture is woven into all aspects of our work and our employees' lives, from the way we treat each other to the way we support the community. To promote and foster a fun and healthy work environment, we appreciate employees through great benefits, a healthy work life balance and room to grow and develop.

Surround yourself with:

Peers who are motivated to make a difference in the lives of those we serve. We serve Salt Lake County and envision a safe and beautiful place for all to live work and have fun. Salt Lake County is about connecting people and championing our community. Community is more than a place….its our heart and service that bring us together.

We encourage a work life balance:

Working for Salt Lake County is more than just a paycheck. A career with /Salt Lake County includes several benefits and perks. We support our employees with 12 Holidays, up to 24 vacation days, 12 sick days and one personal day every year. We work in a hybrid environment giving you flexibility to manage working from home and being in office.

Additional Benefits include:

* Retirement options for hybrid pension/401(k) or 401(k) only with a 10% contribution

Medical coverage including a 100% county paid premium option-Dental and Vision coverage including coverage for adult designees

* Health Savings account with a county contribution up to $1200/year, Flexible Spending Account

* 100% county-paid Long-Term Disability and Short-Term Disability option

* Professional Development

* Plus:
Onsite medical clinic, childcare and gym; hospital insurance, pet insurance auto and home insurance and discounts at County facilities.

JOB SUMMARY

Uses, maintains, and develops databases within a wide range of Salt Lake County and Information Technology, public and private databases. Designs, implements and maintains all functions of database systems while maintaining database policies and procedures, data integrity, data extraction, report customization, and analysis. Acts as subject matter expert and assists other DBAs with complex issues.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Information Technology, or other closely related field, plus four (4) years of related experience.;
Or an equivalent combination of eight (8) years of related education and experience.

PREFERRED

CERTIFICATIONS:

MCDBA, MTA (Data), MCSA (Data), MCSE (Data)

Preference will be given to those that are currently living in Utah or relocating and have worked in Government in a similar capacity.

Due to the nature of this position, the successful applicant must pass a required background check through fingerprinting and enrollment in the continuous RAP Back (Record of Arrest and Prosecution Back) program in accordance with current County Human Resources policy requirements.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

* Manages the setup and configuration of partitioned tables and partitioned views; creates indexed views.

* Implement deterministic or non-deterministic functions; implement CROSS APPLY by using UDFs; implement CLR functions.

* Monitors performance using Dynamic Management Views, collects output from the Database Engine Tuning Advisor, designs Extended Events Sessions, reviews and interprets Extended Event logs; optimizes Extended Event session settings, uses Activity Monitor to minimize server impact and determines IO bottlenecks, monitors In-Memory OLTP resources.

* Modifies scripts that use cursors and loops into a SET-based operation and designs deterministic and non-deterministic functions.

* Collects and reads execution plans, creates an index based on an execution plan, batch or split implicit transactions, splits large queries, consolidates smaller…