Job Posting Title: Enterprise IT Database Administrator
Location: Dallas - Shared Services
Additional Posting Details: Monday - Friday
8:00am - 5:00pm
Job Description: Duties/Responsibilities- Administer, maintain, and support Microsoft SQL Server databases across production, test, development, and disaster recovery environments.
- Monitor database performance and proactively identify, troubleshoot, and resolve performance bottlenecks, blocking issues, and resource constraints.
- Design, implement, and maintain database backup, recovery, and high-availability solutions to ensure business continuity and system availability.
- Perform database installations, upgrades, patches, migrations, and configuration changes in accordance with organizational standards and change management processes.
- Develop and maintain disaster recovery procedures and regularly test backup and recovery processes.
- Optimize database performance through indexing strategies, query tuning, execution plan analysis, and capacity planning.
- Implement and maintain database security, including user access management, role-based permissions, encryption, and auditing controls.
- Monitor database health, storage utilization, and system capacity, and recommend infrastructure improvements as needed.
- Collaborate with application, integration, infrastructure, and cybersecurity teams to support enterprise applications and interfaces.
- Support enterprise applications by ensuring database reliability, availability, and performance.
- Develop and maintain SQL scripts, stored procedures, functions, and automation solutions to improve operational efficiency.
- Troubleshoot database-related incidents and participate in root cause analysis and problem management activities.
- Create and maintain database documentation, standards, procedures, and architecture diagrams.
- Ensure compliance with organizational policies, regulatory requirements, and security standards related to data management and protection.
- Participate in on-call support and provide after-hours support for critical database issues, upgrades, and maintenance activities.
Required Skills/Abilities- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or a related field required.
- Equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant work experience may be considered.
- Microsoft SQL Server or database administration certifications preferred, such as:
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
- Microsoft SQL Server certification or equivalent database-related credential
- Minimum of 3-5 years of experience administering Microsoft SQL Server databases in a production enterprise environment.
- Strong knowledge of SQL Server database administration, performance tuning, indexing, backup and recovery, security, and high availability.
- Experience supporting production, test, development, and disaster recovery database environments.
- Working knowledge of SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, clustering, replication, log shipping, and other business continuity technologies preferred.
- Experience with database monitoring, troubleshooting, query optimization, execution plan analysis, and capacity planning.
- Ability to write, review, and troubleshoot T-SQL scripts, stored procedures, functions, and database jobs.
- Familiarity with Windows Server, Active Directory, storage, networking, and virtualization concepts as they relate to database systems.
- Experience with cloud-based database platforms, particularly Microsoft Azure SQL or Azure database services, preferred.
- Knowledge of data security practices, role-based access controls, encryption, auditing, and regulatory compliance requirements.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and communication skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively with application, infrastructure, cybersecurity, analytics, and integration teams.
- Ability to prioritize work, manage multiple tasks, and support critical systems in a fast-paced environment.
- Willingness to participate in on-call rotation and provide after-hours support for critical incidents, maintenance, upgrades, and deployments.
- Working knowledge of MySQL Database Administration.
