Database Administrator IT

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Responsible for the day-to-day administration and maintenance of transactional databases, ensuring that the database in available, performing properly, and is safely executed.

Essential Job Duties

• Perform installations, upgrades and patching, backup and recovery, performance tuning, security, monitoring, and configuration.
• Define standards for physical data storage, maintenance, access, and security administration.
• Perform backup and recovery using Database Management Systems.
• Configure database parameters and define data repository requirements, data dictionaries, and warehousing requirements.
• Create, maintain, and troubleshoot automated database jobs.
• Troubleshoot and resolve database connectivity and performance issues.
• Monitor server and database metrics and respond to/resolve alerts.
• Administer and maintain database access.
• Design and implement approaches to improve database performance, capacity, and scalability.
• Confer with appropriate managers regarding problems with and capabilities of databases.
• Create and maintain database and server documentation.
• Assume other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Not responsible for supervising employees.

Minimum Requirements

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree.
• 3+ years of related experience required with relational databases.

Preferred Requirements

• 4+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience with Postgres, MS SQL Server and/or Elasticsearch.
• Agile development experience.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rates, ratios, and percentages and to draw and interpret graphs.
• Demonstrate use of computer operations (programming, relational databases, and operating systems) and software packages.
• Regularly uses moderately complex oral and written skills. May train others in functional areas, interact with others, and make presentations to departments or middle management.
• Problems encountered are routine, somewhat repetitive, and generally solved by following clear directions and procedures.
• Decisions generally affect own job or assigned functional area.
• Results are defined; sets personal own goals and determines how to achieve results with few or no guidelines to follow; supervisor/manager provides broad guidance and overall direction.
• Handle multiple tasks or projects simultaneously with moderate complexity.

Essential Physical Demands/Work Environment

• Work is primarily sedentary: must be able to sit for extended periods of time and use a computer, keyboard, and mouse, frequently.
• Travel may be required periodically, including overnight stays (contingent on position requirements).
• Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds.

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