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South Dakota Board of Regents · 2 months ago

System Database Administrator

Sioux Falls, SD

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$90K/yr - $105K/yr

3+ years exp

The South Dakota Board of Regents is seeking an experienced professional to join their team as a System Database Administrator. This role is crucial for maintaining the stability, availability, and performance of enterprise database systems across the SDBOR environment and involves collaboration with various teams to ensure data integrity and compliance with standards.

EducationGovernmentHigher EducationLegal

No H1B

Responsibilities

Provide guidance on performance tuning, uniform coding standards, and system optimization

Manage backup and recovery processes to safeguard data availability and integrity

Collaborate with software development, systems, security, data governance, and network teams to ensure adherence to SDBOR policies and standards

Support data governance and compliance initiatives by enforcing data privacy requirements, supporting NIST, CIS, and SDBOR standards, and leveraging tools to catalog, classify, and protect data assets

Play a key role in advancing modernization initiatives by evaluating and implementing emerging database and data platform technologies, including SaaS, hybrid cloud, and advanced analytics environments, to improve scalability, performance, and operational efficiency

Help shape the evolution of SDBOR’s data environment by participating in the planning and evaluation of new database and data platform technologies, including SaaS, hybrid cloud, data warehouse, and data lake solutions, to ensure future scalability and efficiency requirements are met

Participate in the creation of security plans and procedural documents

Qualification

OracleMicrosoft SQL ServerPostgreSQLData governanceInformation securityPerformance tuningTime managementEffective communication

Required

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or a closely related field

3-5 years of experience with relational databases, information systems, or a related field is preferred

Knowledge of relational database systems such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL, and of principles and techniques used in systems analysis, design, project management, and hybrid data environments

Knowledge and understanding of the differing characteristics of hierarchical and relational databases, as well as the principles, practices and techniques used in online data processing systems with remote data retrieval

Ability to implement and troubleshoot programming changes and modifications; program, configure, manage, and maintain operation of complex relational databases; and develop and manipulate large, complex data sets

Awareness of information security best practices such as access control, encryption, and monitoring

Ability to troubleshoot issues across applications and databases

Availability for scheduled 24-hour on-call support

Demonstrated organizational and time management skills

Ability to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences