Certified IT Administrator (Database), III

City of New York • New York, NY

10d • $100,743 - $142,460 • Onsite

About The Position

The mission of the New York City Police Department is to enhance the quality of life in New York City by working in partnership with the community to enforce the law, preserve peace, protect the people, reduce fear, and maintain order. The New York City Police Department strives to foster a safe and fair city through the strategic deployment of resources, focusing on both crime prevention and addressing quality-of-life concerns while building lasting community relationships.

The Information Technology Services Division (ITSD) supports the Department by acquiring, distributing, installing and maintaining Local Area Networks, personal computers, mainframe computers, software, and data communications networks. ITSD also plans and coordinates the implementation of advanced technology.

Requirements

• Professional/Vendor Certification(s) in database administration that is required for the position to be filled.
• A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university, and two years of satisfactory fulltime (not classroom based) experience in database administration. Experience must include database design, configuration, installation, troubleshooting, integration, performance monitoring, maintenance, enhancement, and security management;
• A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and six years of satisfactory full-time (not classroom based) information technology experience (IT) of which at least two years must have been database administration experience as described in "1" above;
• A satisfactory equivalent of education and/or experience equivalent to “1” or “2” above. Undergraduate education may be substituted for experience on the basis that 30 undergraduate semester credits from an accredited college or university is equivalent to 6 months of information technology experience, but may not be substituted for the required database administration experience.
• A masters degree in computer science or a related field from an accredited college or university may substitute for one year of database administration experience.
• All candidates must have at least one year of satisfactory full-time (not classroom based) database administration experience as described in "1" above.

Responsibilities

• Perform SQL Server database administration functions, including maintenance of multiple environments (development, testing and production), patching, troubleshooting, SSIS and SSRS deployments and security management.
• Monitor and analyze data platform to ensure database is available, secure, healthy, efficient and recoverable as per expectations.
• Build and manage HA and DR architectures like Clustering, Replication and Always on.
• Implementing and managing the physical databases of mission critical systems capacity planning to determine future storage needs.
• Collaborate with application owners to develop a seamless process to migrate their schema and data to data platform.
• Partner with development and quality assurance teams to deliver robust, quality, on-time solutions.
• Supervise subordinates, lead projects and coordinating multi-team operations.
• Monitor the installation of SQL Server, configuration, patching and database back-up recovery, database performance tuning and maintenance.

Benefits

• health insurance for the employee and his or her spouse or domestic partner and unemancipated children under age 26
• union benefits such as dental and vision coverage
• paid annual leave and sick leave
• paid holidays
• a pension
• optional savings and pre-tax programs such as Deferred Compensation, IRA, and a flexible spending account

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level