Senior Database Administrator

Database Administrators

Perform activities related to the day-to-day administration and maintenance of transactional databases, ensuring that the database is available, performing properly, and safe. Perform installations, upgrades and patching, backup and recovery, performance tuning, security, monitoring, and configuration. Confer with appropriate managers regarding problems with and capabilities of databases.

Database Administrators:
Perform activities related to the day-to-day administration and maintenance of transactional databases, ensuring that the database is available, performing properly, and safe. Perform installations, upgrades and patching, backup and recovery, performance tuning, security, monitoring, and configuration. Confer with appropriate managers regarding problems with and capabilities of databases.

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The department may choose to hire at any of the below job levels and associated pay rates based on their business need and budget.

Database Administrator, IV:
Perform activities related to the day-to-day administration and maintenance of transactional databases, ensuring that the database is available, performing properly, and safe. Perform installations, upgrades and patching, backup and recovery, performance tuning, security, monitoring, and configuration. Confer with appropriate managers regarding problems with and capabilities of databases. Recognized as subject matter expert and advanced individual contributor professional. Requires a bachelor's (or equivalency) + 8 years or a master's (or equivalency) + 6 years of directly related work experience.

Job Code: P33944 Grade: P21 Expected Pay Range: $64,122 to $147,104

Database Administrator, V:
Perform activities related to the day-to-day administration and maintenance of transactional databases, ensuring that the database is available, performing properly, and safe. Perform installations, upgrades and patching, backup and recovery, performance tuning, security, monitoring, and configuration. Confer with appropriate managers regarding problems with and capabilities of databases. Recognized as subject matter expert and advanced individual contributor professional. Requires a bachelor's (or equivalency) + 10 years or a master's (or equivalency) + 8 years of directly related work experience.

Job Code: P33945 Grade: P22 Expected Pay Range: $70,535 to $161,814

• Lead out and provide technical guidance, resolve complex issues, and work on complex projects
• Ability to learn new technologies and facilitate knowledge sharing with team
• Be a mentors to other staff members
• Work on roadmaps and capacity planning

• Willing and able to share work and collaborate with other team members

• Develop & share documented Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
• Develop & share architecture diagrams and run-books

• Improve efficiently by automating repetitive tasks
• Share automated scripts or programs with team

• Monitor systems and provide health status to team and management
• Ensure databases are up/healthy and secure by monitoring systems and resolving issues as they arise, including performance tuning, etc.
• Gather metrics and present reports or findings to management
• Proactively monitor data storage capacity and project growth requirements

• Develops, implements, administers, and maintains policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of databases.
• Develop and implement backup, restore, and database recovery plans
• Manage DB User Access
• Perform End-of-Life Support prevention upgrades, and apply patches to address vulnerabilities

• Work with customers and application teams to design database objects that meets business requirements and production standards. This requires obtaining application knowledge while working with architects, data modelers, and application developers, etc.
• Maintain positive relationship with customers and translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Work with customers on Software Development Life Cycle through multiple development, test, production and other environments
• Monitor & resolve ticket queues to ensure high quality of customer service and meet SLA timelines.

• Expected to learn and become proficient in all database technologies that we administer, including Cloud platform technologies
• Implement data models, database designs, data access and table maintenance codes.
• Resolves database performance and capacity issues, and replication and other distributed data issues.
• Ensures the performance of the databases by managing configuration and DB objects to work with application code from development to production.
• Refresh production databases to Non-Prod environments as requested
• Works on complex projects both on-premises and on the Cloud
• Install, upgrade, and test complex database software
• Works in multiple projects…