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Texas Health and Human Services · 1 day ago

Database Administrator

Austin, TX

Contract

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$5,797.66/mo - $9,508.25/mo

3+ years exp

Texas Health and Human Services is committed to creating a positive impact in the lives of fellow Texans. They are seeking a Senior Database Administrator to manage and optimize database systems, ensuring data integrity, performance, and security while collaborating with developers and providing technical support.

Health Care

No H1B

Responsibilities

Coordinates the installation of database software and migrations to new data management system software levels and ensures that migrations are appropriately tested and validated

Coordinates and provides application and database operations triage support to troubleshoot and resolve functional and performance issues encountered in production, development and test environments

Provides advanced database development and oversee modifies and/or maintains database structures

Performs logical and physical data modeling, evaluates relational database models, and reviews physical data models created from logical data models

Plans and databases, as well as in troubleshooting any issues on behalf of the users

Knowledge and experience in development and maintenance of PostgreSQL databases

Installing and configuring PostgreSQL databases, ensuring security through access control and auditing, maintaining performance through tuning and monitoring, and managing data integrity with regular backups, disaster recovery plans

Collaborate with developers on database design and feature implementation, maintain documentation, and provide technical support for database-related issues

Communicate regularly with technical, applications and operational staff to ensure database integrity and security

Control access permissions and privileges

Make requested changes, updates and modifications to the database structure and data to ensure security, integrity, stability and system availability

Prepare regular reports to summarize all database operating issues and appropriate resolutions

Maintain database backup and recovery infrastructure

Assists in developing strategic plans

Assists in developing agency data processing plans, budgets and justification

May prepare management level reports, such as priority lists, quarterly reports, and operating plan

Advise management of the status and progress of projects and other tasks being conducted

Other duties assigned include but are not limited to actively participating and/or serving in a supporting role to meet the agency’s obligations for disaster response and/or recovery or Continuity of Operations (COOP) activation

Qualification

SQL Server AdministrationPostgreSQLMongoDBCloud Database ManagementSQL Performance TuningDisaster RecoveryData ModelingDatabase SecurityAutomationMonitoringAlerting

Required

A bachelor's degree in a computer-related field, computer science or information technology, is required

3 to 5 years of experience in specific database software including one, or more, of the following is required: SQL, Microsoft Azure, MongoDB, PostgreSQL

3 to 5 years of hands on work experience experience as a Database Administrator is required

Must be willing to work onsite at an Austin, TX HHS office three (3), or more, days per week

Selected candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship