Database Administrator III (Microsoft Azure)

ECU Health

About ECU Health Medical Center

ECU Health Medical Center, one of four academic medical centers in North Carolina, is the 974-bed flagship hospital for ECU Health and serves as the primary teaching hospital for The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. ECU Health Medical Center has achieved Magnet® designation twice and provides acute and intermediate care, rehabilitation and outpatient health services to a 29-county region that is home to more than 1.4 million people.

Position Summary

• Deploy, and maintain enterprise database systems.
• Lead and mentors others with database upgrades, installation and patching to maintain stable and secure systems.
• Manage database backups/snapshots, including monitoring of system jobs for successful completion and resolve any issues.
• Monitor systems performance and capacity.
• Develop and report against baseline KPIs and perform capacity and performance reporting to ensure compliance.
• Monitor the database systems and infrastructure and proactively implement changes to reduce risk and minimize unplanned outages.
• Evaluate, recommend, implement and maintain security hardening standards across database systems.
• Develop or modify database maintenance jobs as needed for systems management or project deliverables.
• Develop and Implement High Availability database solutions for critical operational systems.
• Works on advanced, complex technical projects or business issues requiring state of the art technical or industry knowledge.
• Evaluates, selects, integrates, and implements new system architectures, systems, tools, and processes.
• Deploy, and maintain enterprise database systems.
• Provide well-written and effective technical documentation and demonstrate strong oral communication skills.
• Collaborate with team members, colleagues, consultants and vendors to effectively analyze and resolve simple to moderate issues.
• Provide on-call support as needed by the business, to 24X7 critical infrastructure operations.
• Provides leadership in the planning and design of technology architecture roadmaps.
• Leads in the development of operational policies, procedures, and best practices.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience required- or higher.
• At least one relevant certification required, or obtained within one year of start date. Examples include (but not limited to) OCA, OCP, MCSE: Data Platform, MCDBA or Cache Certification.
• 7 or more years of relevant experience working with SQL Server, Oracle, or Cache, with an emphasis in either database administration and/or systems administration.
• Advanced knowledge of three or more of the following areas including 7 or more years of experience: database security, backup and recovery principles and techniques, disaster recovery planning and testing, high availability, database performance tuning, capacity planning, resource utilization analysis, database software installation and patch management, database upgrades and data migrations, database design, ETL principles, and license management.
• Expert SQL knowledge, including the use of optimization tools.
• Experience leading project teams in the design and implement of new solutions in areas of expertise.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience with Microsoft Azure

General Statement

It is the goal of ECU Health and its entities to employ the most qualified individual who best matches the requirements for the vacant position.

Offers of employment are subject to successful completion of all pre-employment screenings, which may include an occupational health screening, criminal record check, education, reference, and licensure verification.

We value diversity and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Decisions of employment are made based on business needs, job requirements and applicant's qualifications without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information and testing, family and medical leave, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other status protected by law. We prohibit retaliation against individuals who bring forth any complaint, orally or in writing, to the employer, or against any individuals who assist or participate in the investigation of any complaint.