IT Database Administrator (This is an in-person position)

Bernalillo County•Albuquerque, NM

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Employees at Bernalillo County enjoy the ability to team up with each other to build a high quality of life for our county residents, communities, and businesses. In addition to being an organization with a strong focus on work-life balance, building a culture of flexibility, learning, and belonging the County offers many benefits. Employees of Bernalillo County enjoy many thoughtful rewards such as, but not limited to generous leave accruals; career development opportunities; remote & flex-work options as appropriate; longevity pay; education assistance program; health benefits; lucrative retirement; and so much more. The Database Administrator performs professional duties related to the analysis, development, maintenance, and administration of databases to support business needs. Responsibilities may include creating, monitoring, upgrading, and administering databases and related tools. The administrator also creates and maintains database user accounts, performs database backups and restores, installs required database software, troubleshoots database errors, and reviews backup log files, error logs, and database server storage capacity.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
Four (4) years of work experience with increasingly responsible experience in database administration.
Any equivalent combination of related education and/or experience may be considered for the above requirements.
Possession of a valid New Mexico driver’s license by the date of hire and maintenance of a valid license while employed in this position.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated professional-level competency and/or certification pertaining to the information technologies used by the appointing department may be required.

Responsibilities

Performs database management and administration tasks; troubleshoots and resolves database issues; monitors and tunes database performance; and verifies data integrity.
Installs database engine software and middle-tier database applications.
Creates, upgrades, tunes, and patches databases to ensure optimal functionality and minimize system vulnerabilities.
Ensures maximum database availability and protection; monitors and administers database security; creates and tests backups; performs backup and recovery tasks; maintains security access controls; and establishes user permissions and vendor access.
Prepares technical documentation, procedural plans, reports, correspondence, and related materials.
Provides after-hours database support as assigned.
Performs other related duties as assigned.