Database Administrators

Role: Database Administrators

Project: Infrastructure Availability

Location: Remote – USA

Experience : 8+ years

****NOTE: No GC’s consultants who are coming through employer

Job description:

1. Provide day-to-day incident and deployment support for multiple database technologies (Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres) through on-site and remote administration, user support, performance monitoring, tuning, and capacity planning.
2. Manage incident response via the organization’s ticketing system, adhering to published change-management service-level agreements.
3. Serve as a technical leader in incident response, maintenance, documentation, and support of large, complex, distributed database and server environments.
4. Develop growth plans to ensure the hosting environment supports projected application demand.
5. Develop and implement procedures for proactive problem detection and avoidance, including disaster-recovery planning and implementation.
6. Create and maintain project plans, keeping management informed of critical failures or potential missed milestones.
7. Collaborate with program and project managers, engineering teams, staff, and vendors to manage projects, drive outcomes, and lead teams.
8. Analyze and resolve complex hardware and software problems; assist development teams in testing and implementing software changes.
9. Develop and implement operational management processes and procedures.
10. Track inventory and complete documentation required for deploying servers.
11. Utilize monitoring, systems management, software distribution, and security tools selected by management; facilitate backups and restores of data and application code.
12. Escalate unusual or unexpected findings and provide reports on system status as requested.
13. Provide weekly status reports and maintain records of hours worked on projects.
14. Follow change- and case-management procedures; perform isolation testing of problematic equipment or software.
15. Document solutions to problems, application guidelines, and issues; share findings with management and other stakeholders.
16. Implement escalation procedures and adhere to quality-assurance programs chosen by management.
17. Provide on-site system or application support for deployment and installation as required.
18. Interact with all functional groups to accomplish objectives; create and edit computer-based documentation and trouble-ticket systems to document configurations, track changes, and compile performance data.
19. Provide assistance, training, and knowledge sharing to users and other administrators; maintain leadership qualities consistent with the organization’s standards.