Database Administration Engineer
About The Position
The Database Administration Engineer is an existing role within Kimball Electronics Shared Services. This position is responsible for leading the enterprise database strategy and serving as the centralized technical resource for database systems, while also providing advanced administration, support, and troubleshooting for the current environment. This role is located at Kimball Electronics headquarters in Jasper, IN and reports to the IT Data Integration Manager. This role will work closely with IT representatives spanning multiple business units and departments across the organization. Kimball Electronics has an international footprint, so this role requires the ability to work with different languages and cultures. Quick Summary The Database Administration Engineer leads the direction, standards, and modernization of Kimball’s database ecosystem, balancing strategic planning with hands-on technical leadership. This includes research and development of database solutions, defining and driving enterprise standards, guiding upgrades and migrations, architecting backup and recovery strategies, establishing security and audit approaches, and proactively optimizing performance and capacity. In addition to strategy leadership, this role supports all responsibilities performed by the Database Administrator, including monitoring, maintenance, installations, upgrades, access management, troubleshooting, documentation, and global operational support. The Database Administration Engineer provides leadership, mentorship, and technical guidance, ensuring the database environment is stable, secure, scalable, and aligned with business needs. The role requires an off hours support rotation along with the Database Administrator. To be successful, the candidate must be self-motivated with the ability to think with an enterprise mindset to do what is best for Kimball.
Responsibilities
- Lead the direction, standards, and modernization of Kimball’s database ecosystem, balancing strategic planning with hands-on technical leadership.
- Research and development of database solutions
- Defining and driving enterprise standards
- Guiding upgrades and migrations
- Architecting backup and recovery strategies
- Establishing security and audit approaches
- Proactively optimizing performance and capacity
- Supports all responsibilities performed by the Database Administrator, including monitoring, maintenance, installations, upgrades, access management, troubleshooting, documentation, and global operational support.
- Provides leadership, mentorship, and technical guidance, ensuring the database environment is stable, secure, scalable, and aligned with business needs.
- Evolve and maintain a multi-year database strategy aligned with business growth, security, and disaster recovery requirements
- Establish mature governance for database standards, security controls, backup validation, and audit readiness
- Maintain strong vendor knowledge and oversee database licensing compliance and long-term planning.
- Build scalable team capability through structured training, mentoring, and standardized operational playbooks
- Proactively consult with business units to enable new capabilities, tools, and improved database support
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
