City Of New York

Certified IT Administrator (Database), III

City Of New York$95K — $115K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Professional/vendor certification in database administration required.
  • Baccalaureate degree plus 2 years of relevant experience or equivalent related experience required.
  • High school diploma with 6 years of IT experience, including 2 years in database administration acceptable.
  • Experience must encompass database design, configuration, installation, and security management.
  • Master's degree may substitute for one year of database administration experience.

Responsibilities

  • Perform SQL Server database administration across development, testing, and production environments.
  • Monitor and analyze data platforms for availability and security.
  • Build and manage high availability and disaster recovery architectures.
  • Implement and manage physical databases for critical systems and storage needs.
  • Collaborate with application owners to streamline data migration processes.
  • Partner with development and QA teams to ensure timely and quality solutions.
  • Supervise subordinates and lead project coordination across multiple teams.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance for employees and eligible family members.
  • Union benefits including dental and vision coverage.
  • Paid annual leave, sick leave, and holidays.
  • Pension plan with optional savings programs.
  • Flexible spending account options available.
Full Job Description
The selected candidate will: -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. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Only permanent employees in the title and those that are reachable on the civil service list are eligible to apply. PLEASE INDICATE IF YOU ARE PERMANENT OR INCLUDE YOUR CIVIL SERVICE LIST # IN YOUR COVER LETTER. The City of New York offers a comprehensive benefits package including 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, and optional savings and pre-tax programs such as Deferred Compensation, IRA, and a flexible spending account. CERT IT ADMINISTRATOR (DB) - 13644 Professional/Vendor Certification(s) in database administration that is required for the position to be filled. In addition, you must have one of the following: 1. 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; 2. 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; OR 3. 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. However, all candidates must have at least one year of satisfactory full-time (not classroom based) database administration experience as described in "1" above.

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