What are the responsibilities and job description for the Database Administrator position at Somatus, Inc.?
Overview:
The Database Administrator is a key role on our infrastructure team. This role ensures stability, security and innovation across our database technologies and assets.
Responsibilities:
- Provides support and development services to engineering teams (database changes, queries, optimizations)
- Deploy database releases for SQL Server and Sybase databases per assigned schedules
- Improve operational efficiencies of database schema, settings, SQL queries
- Manage and improve the backup/recovery and disaster recovery procedures
- Monitors the core production system performance and stability
- Research new products and upgrades that maximize efficiency and scalability
- Document database design, integration, backup/recovery and disaster recovery processes
- Create and maintain operational procedures and standards for database maintenance and optimization
- Respond to and resolve issues, requests, problem tickets and major incidents providing root cause analysis support as needed
- Bachelor’s degree in IT related field
- Seven (7) years of SQL database management
- Three (3) years of experience with Azure SQL experience
- Two (2) years of experience with Azure Synapse and/or Databricks
Preferred:
- Experience working with Azure Data Factory
- Experience with Jira and/or Confluence
- Experience with DevOps and SecDevOps teams and delivery methods
- Bachelor’s degree in IT related field
- Seven (7) years of SQL database management
- Three (3) years of experience with Azure SQL experience
- Two (2) years of experience with Azure Synapse and/or Databricks
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Strong knowledge of database security design and techniques
- Comfortable and proficient with best practice documentation standards
- Knowledgeable of IT Operations and IT Service Management processes
- Strong collaborative and coaching mindset to work across teams and with both junior and senior resources
- Comfortable with a fast-paced, growth-oriented culture that changes and achieves quickly
- Ability to self-manage and pro-actively identify and implement solutions
Physical Requirements:
- This job operates in a professional setting. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit or stand for extended periods of time. Normal manual dexterity is required.
- Normal speaking and hearing abilities to interact with others in an office environment, over telephone or other video conferencing platform.
- The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; and reach with hands and arms and continuously repeat the same hand, arm finger motion many times as in typing.
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