IT Database Administrator Sr

City of Austin • Austin, TX

3d • $85,120 - $109,400 • Hybrid

About The Position

This position designs, administers, maintains, secures, and improves performance of complex databases. The IT Database Administrator Senior is responsible for the administration, maintenance, security, performance, availability, and recoverability of enterprise database systems. This position serves as both an infrastructure and application database administrator, providing technical leadership for Oracle database environments, including Oracle RAC, ASM, and related database technologies. Responsibilities include database installation and configuration, patching and upgrades, backup and recovery, performance tuning, troubleshooting, monitoring, capacity planning, support of business-critical applications. This position works closely with application teams, systems administrators, vendors, and business stakeholders to ensure reliable, secure and highly available database services supporting the organization.

Requirements

• Graduation with a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in a field related to the job, plus four (4) years of experience in a related field. Experience may substitute for education for up to four (4) years.
• Knowledge of industry and department best practices, requirements and policies and procedures.
• Knowledge of the advanced principles, practices and techniques of secure computer programming, system design, computer operations, systems and procedures.
• Knowledge of advanced database structures and theories.
• Knowledge of current database technologies.
• Knowledge of Oracle and SQL Server database tools, environments and query languages (SQL, TSQL).
• Knowledge of statistical analysis processes.
• Skill in developing reports and cross references from the data dictionary.
• Skill in performing data modeling and prototyping to implement efficiency improvements.
• Skill database debugging, testing and troubleshooting techniques.
• Skill in selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new concepts.
• Ability to write Extraction, Transform and Load (ETL) or SSIS tasks for the Extraction, Transformation or Loading (ETL) process.
• Ability to gather, assemble, correlate, and analyze facts.
• Ability to perform a root cause analysis.
• Ability to assess future information needs so that the databases can evolve in an appropriate manner.
• Ability to accurately identify/determine customer needs and take appropriate actions and/or steps to address identified needs.
• Ability to recognize, value, and include different perspectives, experiences, approaches, and cultures in achieving organizational goals.
• Ability to gain and maintain the trust and confidence of others and the organization through consistency and reliability.
• Ability to give, receive, or share thoughts, ideas, perspective, and data to create shared understanding.
• Ability to define, analyze, and find solutions for difficult or complex problems.
• Ability to view the big picture.
• Ability to quickly become familiar with emerging technologies.
• Ability to identify trends as well as isolated events.
• The ability to travel to more than one work location.

Nice To Haves

• Experience administering Oracle Enterprise database in Linux and/or IBM AIX environments, including installation, configuration, patching, upgrades and lifecycle management.
• Experience with Oracle high-availability technologies, including Real Application Clusters (RAC), Automatic Storage Management (ASM) and Oracle Data Guard.
• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting Oracle backup, recovery, business continuity, and disaster recovery solutions utilizing RMAN and related technologies.
• Experience with Oracle Multitenant Architecture, including Container Databases (CDB) and Pluggable Databases (PDB).
• Experience monitoring, troubleshooting, and tuning Oracle database environments, including SQL performance tuning, execution plan analysis, and capacity planning.
• Experience designing, implementing and supporting Oracle Goldengate replication and change data capture.
• Experience installing, configuring, and utilizing Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) and other enterprise monitoring tools.
• Experience developing administrative automation scripts using shell, PowerShell or similar technologies.
• Experience administering mission-critical, highly available (24x7) database environments supporting enterprise systems and applications.
• Experience administering Microsoft SQL Server database supporting commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications.

Responsibilities

• Designs, analyzes, troubleshoots, and resolves advanced operational and performance-related database issues; coordinates changes; maintains database structures; and assists in developing policies and procedures designed to ensure the integrity of the database environment.
• Designs, coordinates, implements, and determines procedures necessary to save and recover production databases and databases from hardware and software failure.
• Performs database performance monitoring and auditing, implements efficiency improvements, and modifies existing databases and database management systems.
• Designs, configures, and implements database network connectivity working with required technical teams.
• Monitors capacity versus utilization and recommends appropriate action on a timely basis to avoid performance degradation.
• Creates databases and database objects, such as tables, indexes, views, triggers, and stored procedures.
• Tracks database assets and critical information about those assets.
• Assists in development of data security standards to ensure data integrity data security.
• Maintains data standards and prepares and develops database documentation, procedures, and definitions for data dictionaries.
• Creates test database environment for applications section, including the creation of necessary libraries and procedures.
• Installs new software releases and/or upgrades including researching, testing, and implementing new technology.
• May provide leadership, work assignments, evaluation, training, and guidance to others.

Benefits

• Competitive Benefits: Enjoy a comprehensive compensation package that includes generous leave, work-life balance programs, and extensive benefits.
• Retirement Security: Plan for the future with the City of Austin Employees' Retirement System.
• Sustainable Transportation Options: Commute easily with access to public transit and bike-friendly infrastructure.
• Focus on Wellness: Stay healthy through wellness programs, on-site fitness centers, and mental health support.
• Career Growth: Advance your skills and expertise with professional development and leadership opportunities.
• Modern Workspaces: Work in innovative and sustainable environments that foster collaboration and inspiration.

What This Job Offers

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