Database Administrator

About

The Database administrator provides specialized technical input and support and ensures auditing, configuration standards, security levels and technical support are delivered timely and professionally to promote a sound operating environment. This position will also involve some data modelling and SQL development work.

Responsibilities

• Perform technical administrative tasks relative to the environments on a daily basis to ensure the databases are accessible and stable via the applications.
• Provide assistance and technical support to other staff members/vendors to ensure the design and management of the databases are operational.
• Prevent security breeches, intrusions or attacks to the environment by ensuring appropriate measures are in place to allow for auditing, alerts and reporting on a daily basis.
• Develop and maintain reports that can be used on a daily/monthly basis for administrating the environments.
• Monitor and reports to management any performance, capacity or threshold issues that would result in an unstable environment.
• Schedule sessions with developers and 2nd level support staff to ensure knowledge transfer and application expertise is provided.
• Investigate with vendor support any patches or upgrades that apply permanent fixes to current versions of software/hardware.
• Perform risk mitigation steps as it relates to these types of changes to ensure the environments are stable on a scheduled basis

Operations Support

• Maintaining critical environments in an “always on-call” function; being responsible for multiple environments that span both transactional and batch/report type database environments
• Advanced troubleshooting skills in client/server environments, detailed root-cause analysis, efficient/effective problem resolution
• Ability to integrate off-the-shelf tools with in-house developed scripts and programs to manage platforms and notify/alarm on call support in a proactively and timely

Requirements

• Data modelling and SQL development experience
• Database management tools (SnapManager for SQL (highly preferred), DBArtisan, RedGate, ER/Studio. ERWIN)
• Experience supporting web-based applications developed on WebSphere/Java/Apache and IIS/.NET/Windows Server
• Experience with RedHat Linux Operating System as well as Windows server Operating System
• Platform Integration, Management, Monitoring, and Administration tools (WebSphere MQ, Microsoft Operations Manager, HP OpenView, NetApp SnapManager, SnapMirror, SnapRestore)

Education Requirements

• Recognized University Degree or College Diploma. Vendor training, courses and accreditations