Database Administrator III
Old Dominion Freight Line•Florence, SC
•$105,716 - $132,144
About The Position
Provide both strategic and tactical direction for the database team while overseeing the management and maintenance of mission-critical databases across production and non-production environments. This personnel ensures databases run reliably at scale while continuously optimizing and automating operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field and/or relevant experience
- 7+ years of experience in database administration, design, and development
- 5+ years of experience with tuning, performance, and scalability projects
- 2+ years of experience with cloud technologies
- Advanced experience with database platforms (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL)
- Deep knowledge of performance tuning, execution plans, indexing, and wait event analysis
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, OCI, AWS, Azure)
- Strong expertise in backup/recovery tools and HA/DR technologies (e.g., RMAN, Data Guard, Clustering, Always On, Commvault)
- Knowledge of replication tools (e.g., GoldenGate, Qlik)
- Familiarity with monitoring tools (e.g., OEM, Dynatrace, Spotlight)
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Critical thinking and research skills
- Written and verbal presentation skills to technical and non-technical audiences
Responsibilities
- Partner with IT resources to ensure appropriate solutions/offerings are being utilized and supported across the organization
- Provide technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring to junior level DBAs to support new directions or solutions selected for the enterprise in a 24x7 environment
- Ensure database availability, reliability, and performance through proactive monitoring and tuning practices
- Responsible for implementing and supporting backup and recovery solutions and Disaster Recovery processes
- Responsible for implementing and maintaining high-availability solutions and be proficient in replication technologies
- Enforce security best practices (access control, encryption, auditing, patching)
- Troubleshoot complex incidents, including query performance issues, blocking, and deadlocks
- Recommend changes and enhancements to improve the environment and provide excellent customer service
- Help transform business requirements into environment specific database solutions
- Assist developers with tuning database access or SQL code to ensure successful implementations
- Lead the assessment and evaluation of tools supporting the databases
- Participate in the development of implementation plans and post implementation reviews
- Establish and maintain procedures for database administration, security standards and implement database best practices
- Support database deployments, schema changes, release and change management processes
- Automate routine DBA tasks using scripting (e.g., Shell, Python, PowerShell)
- Research and perform database upgrades and patching
- Participate in on-call rotation
Benefits
- Great Health Benefits including a Zero premium medical plan for employee only coverage
- Vision & Dental
- Short Term & Long Term Disability
- Flex Spending Accounts
- 401k Retirement plan with company match and additional company annual discretionary match opportunity
- Life Insurance
- Wellness Program
- 12 Days Paid Time Off
- 9 Paid Holidays including a birthday holiday
- Tuition Reimbursement for Drivers and Technicians
- Training and growth opportunities to build a career
- Ability to advance through our promote from within philosophy
- National Career Opportunities Available at our 260+ service centers
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
