University of Utah · 6 hours ago
Senior Database Administrator
Salt Lake City, UT
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$64K/yr - $147K/yr
8+ years expUniversity of Utah is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to manage and maintain transactional databases, ensuring their availability and performance. The role involves performing installations, upgrades, security, monitoring, and configuration, while also working on complex projects and providing technical guidance to team members.
Higher Education
Responsibilities
Perform activities related to the day-to-day administration and maintenance of transactional databases, ensuring that the database is available, performing properly, and safe
Perform installations, upgrades and patching, backup and recovery, performance tuning, security, monitoring, and configuration
Confer with appropriate managers regarding problems with and capabilities of databases
Recognized as subject matter expert and advanced individual contributor professional
Requires specialized skill set
Conducts highly complex work, unsupervised and with extensive latitude for independent judgment
Requires a bachelor's (or equivalency) + 8 years or a master's (or equivalency) + 6 years of directly related work experience
This is an Advanced-Level position in the General Professional track
Perform activities related to the day-to-day administration and maintenance of transactional databases, ensuring that the database is available, performing properly, and safe
Perform installations, upgrades and patching, backup and recovery, performance tuning, security, monitoring, and configuration
Confer with appropriate managers regarding problems with and capabilities of databases
Recognized as subject matter expert and advanced individual contributor professional
Requires specialized skill set
Conducts highly complex work, unsupervised and with extensive latitude for independent judgment
Requires a bachelor's (or equivalency) + 10 years or a master's (or equivalency) + 8 years of directly related work experience
This is an Expert-Level position in the General Professional track
Lead out and provide technical guidance, resolve complex issues, and work on complex projects
Ability to learn new technologies and facilitate knowledge sharing with team
Be a mentors to other staff members
Work on roadmaps and capacity planning
Willing and able to share work and collaborate with other team members
Develop & share documented Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
Develop & share architecture diagrams and run-books
Improve efficiently by automating repetitive tasks
Share automated scripts or programs with team
Monitor systems and provide health status to team and management
Ensure databases are up/healthy and secure by monitoring systems and resolving issues as they arise, including performance tuning, etc
Gather metrics and present reports or findings to management
Proactively monitor data storage capacity and project growth requirements
Develops, implements, administers, and maintains policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of databases
Develop and implement backup, restore, and database recovery plans
Manage DB User Access
Perform End-of-Life Support prevention upgrades, and apply patches to address vulnerabilities
Work with customers and application teams to design database objects that meets business requirements and production standards
Maintain positive relationship with customers and translate business requirements into technical solutions
Work with customers on Software Development Life Cycle through multiple development, test, production and other environments
Monitor & resolve ticket queues to ensure high quality of customer service and meet SLA timelines
Expected to learn and become proficient in all database technologies that we administer, including Cloud platform technologies
Implement data models, database designs, data access and table maintenance codes
Resolves database performance and capacity issues, and replication and other distributed data issues
Ensures the performance of the databases by managing configuration and DB objects to work with application code from development to production
Refresh production databases to Non-Prod environments as requested
Works on complex projects both on-premises and on the Cloud
Install, upgrade, and test complex database software
Works in multiple projects simultaneously which spans multiple applications releases
Troubleshoot issues as they arise in a timely manner
All other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Requires a bachelor's (or equivalency) + 8 years or a master's (or equivalency) + 6 years of directly related work experience for Database Administrator, IV
Requires a bachelor's (or equivalency) + 10 years or a master's (or equivalency) + 8 years of directly related work experience for Database Administrator, V
Perform activities related to the day-to-day administration and maintenance of transactional databases, ensuring that the database is available, performing properly, and safe
Perform installations, upgrades and patching, backup and recovery, performance tuning, security, monitoring, and configuration
Confer with appropriate managers regarding problems with and capabilities of databases
Recognized as subject matter expert and advanced individual contributor professional
Requires specialized skill set
Conducts highly complex work, unsupervised and with extensive latitude for independent judgment
Lead out and provide technical guidance, resolve complex issues, and work on complex projects
Ability to learn new technologies and facilitate knowledge sharing with team
Be a mentor to other staff members
Work on roadmaps and capacity planning
Willing and able to share work and collaborate with other team members
Develop & share documented Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
Develop & share architecture diagrams and run-books
Improve efficiency by automating repetitive tasks
Share automated scripts or programs with team
Monitor systems and provide health status to team and management
Ensure databases are up/healthy and secure by monitoring systems and resolving issues as they arise, including performance tuning, etc
Gather metrics and present reports or findings to management
Proactively monitor data storage capacity and project growth requirements
Develops, implements, administers, and maintains policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of databases
Develop and implement backup, restore, and database recovery plans
Manage DB User Access
Perform End-of-Life Support prevention upgrades, and apply patches to address vulnerabilities
Work with customers and application teams to design database objects that meet business requirements and production standards
Maintain positive relationship with customers and translate business requirements into technical solutions
Work with customers on Software Development Life Cycle through multiple development, test, production and other environments
Monitor & resolve ticket queues to ensure high quality of customer service and meet SLA timelines
Expected to learn and become proficient in all database technologies that we administer, including Cloud platform technologies
Implement data models, database designs, data access and table maintenance codes
Resolve database performance and capacity issues, and replication and other distributed data issues
Ensure the performance of the databases by managing configuration and DB objects to work with application code from development to production
Refresh production databases to Non-Prod environments as requested
Work on complex projects both on-premises and on the Cloud
Install, upgrade, and test complex database software
Work in multiple projects simultaneously which spans multiple applications releases
Troubleshoot issues as they arise in a timely manner
All other duties as assigned
Preferred
Database Certifications (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL)
Cloud Certifications (Comptia, AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI)
Programming and Automation Experience (Shell Scripting, PowerShell, Python, etc.)
Technical Academic Degree
Experience with PeopleSoft
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