Database Administrator

Alliance Safety Council

Database Administrator (DBA)

Job Title:Database Administrator

Department: Information Technology

Reports To: Director of Information Technology

FLSA Status: Full-Time, Salaried – Exempt

Summary: The Database Administrator (DBA) will be responsible for the design, deployment, management, and maintenance of new and current database systems. The DBA will establish, maintain, and execute policies and procedures around security, maintenance, management, and disaster recovery of databases.

Supervisory Responsibilities This position requires no supervisory responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, manage, and maintain new and current Database (DB) systems.
• Establish, maintain, and execute policies and procedures around security, maintenance, management, and disaster recovery of Data bases.
• Creation and administration of new and current user accounts according to security policies and procedures.
• Configuring, maintenance and monitoring of High availability group & SQL clusters.
• Break, fix, troubleshoot, and root cause SQL server and related technology issues.
• Work with a collaborative team on DB design and data modelling focusing on improving SQL efficiency for application performance.
• Responsiveness to alerts from production database during and after normal business hours.
• Performing code reviews and participating in design reviews inside pods/projects.
• Database Security and audit compliance
• Conduct reoccurring DB tasks (Daily, weekly, monthly)
• Write scripting to automate tasks.
• Deploy DB changes during release cycles.
• Pull Data requested by authorized parties for evaluation.
  
  

Preferred Skills

• Experience with high availability groups and SQL clusters.
• Knowledge of scripting languages for automation.
• Familiarity with database performance tuning and optimization.
  
  

Work Environment

• This position may require occasional after-hours work to respond to database alerts and perform maintenance tasks.
  
  

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of an Senior Applications Developer, the employee must be able to sit for extended periods of time, regularly stand, walk, climb, balance, stoop and kneel and must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Work Schedule: The work schedule of the Senior Applications Developer is Monday – Friday, at least 8 hours per day. Works overtime as required

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 7 years of experience Database administrator
• Strong knowledge of database structure systems and data mining.
• Excellent understanding of SQL and database management.
• Experience with database security, backup, and recovery.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.