Database Administrator , II, III, Senior

About Us

UNS Energy Corporation, headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, is a subsidiary of Fortis Inc., the largest investor‑owned electric and gas distribution utility in Canada. Our public utility subsidiaries, Tucson Electric Power Company, UNS Electric, Inc. and UNS Gas, Inc., power our economy by providing electric and gas service to nearly 700,000 customers in Arizona.

We embrace a spirit of giving, dedicated to improving quality of life in the communities we have served for generations, and in TEP’s case, since the 1890s. We’re building a cleaner, greener grid, with more wind and solar power than ever before, while maintaining safe, reliable, and affordable service.

Our culture is rooted in shared core values that define how we work and who we are. Our team of innovative professionals bring their authentic selves to work each day to power our vision and make a difference.

We create opportunities for employees to thrive through:

• Continual growth: Commitment to professional growth and leadership development.
• Active Engagement: Collaborative environment with peer‑to‑peer learning and employee‑driven groups.
• Total compensation: Competitive compensation and benefits package including a 401k plan, tuition assistance, life insurance, long‑term disability insurance and more.

• Install, configure, and maintain Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) systems, including hardware setup, Oracle Linux, and integrated components such as Oracle ILOM and Grid Infrastructure.
• Perform patching and upgrades for ODA bundles (BIOS, firmware, drivers, Oracle Appliance Manager, and RDBMS homes) to ensure system stability and compliance.
• Demonstrate proficiency in Linux system administration and networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, VLANs, DNS, firewall rule configuration, and adherence to enterprise security standards for secure ODA environments.
• Show strong troubleshooting skills for complex hardware, software, and network issues, with the ability to coordinate with Oracle Support and apply best practices for high availability and security.

Provide technical expertise in the design, implementation, and maintenance of relational database management systems (RDBMSs) and data integration systems that support corporate business applications. Responsible for the technical support of multiple database and middleware environments, from various vendors, that run company‑wide business applications and are accessed by multiple departments.

• Maintain development, test, and production RDBMS environments.
• Plan, install, maintain, modify, and patch or upgrade database software, middleware, hardware and associated toolsets.
• Interact with vendor support to address and resolve issues.
• Recommend system architectures, configure databases, handle backup and recovery activities, monitor and tune systems, and produce reports.
• Monitor and tune relational databases to optimize performance, resource usage, and physical implementations for multi‑terabyte Business Intelligence systems.
• Participate in the integration, maintenance/conversion, capacity planning, and installation of databases for new applications.
• Develop scripts and programming to support automated database support processes.
• Prepare, administer, and copy or clone production databases to test systems.
• Collaborate with system administrators to execute failover, fallback, disaster recovery, and other procedures for high availability and system tuning.
• Monitor and maintain, in cooperation with data security administrators, database security and database security software.
• Perform data management tasks for extracting, loading, transforming, editing and restoring data. Prepare and present audits and reports for management.
• Conduct backups, restore and recover data as required.
• Assist developers with writing and tuning SQL queries.
• Maintain Unix shell scripts, particularly Korn shell scripts.
• Operate on a scheduled 24‑hour on‑call basis.
• Perform other job‑related duties as assigned by management.

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