Progress Database Administrator

Do you like using your IT skills to solve complex problems in a highly collaborative environment? Join the UFP Industries' IT team where you will be integral to the continuous improvement of our company.

Job Summary

UFP Industries is seeking a Progress Server Database Administrator for a position located in Grand Rapids, MI., to join our team!

Responsible for the daily operation of our Progress database systems in a Microsoft Windows environment. The role is influential in bringing forward great ideas and advancing Database Platforms. Works under general supervision; relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals and requires a certain degree of creativity and autonomy to perform the job.

Location: Must be able to office out of Grand Rapids, MI

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Infrastructure Technology database management team and multiple application development teams to ensure database continuity, availability, integrity, recovery, and security.

• Progress DBA, PowerShell Scripting, should understand complex PowerShell scripts and be able to develop new scripts.

• Should be fully conversant in PowerShell Scripting and should be proficient in writing shell scripts for database administration and monitoring. Knowledge of Progress 4GL queries is a plus.

• Maintaining high-volume tables

• All Progress database administration functions including definition, maintenance, and support in a large production environment in an enterprise network, spanning multiple geographical regions preferably in a SAN environment.

• Database administration, manage and support all Production, QA and Development environments.

• Database design, architecture, implementation in an enterprise scale

• Manage and monitor database backups and data growth. Refreshing QA and Dev environments from Live.

• Database Performance Tuning.

• Should be able to manage, train, recruit and motivate high performance team to deliver technical services.

• Experience in Database Dump and Load and Progress upgrades.

• Experience in code deployment, compilation and troubleshooting of issues relating to it.

• Providing support to the Development Team.

• Security administration in OS / Progress, user access definition, user access

• management, monitoring and maintaining security of the Production environments.

• Monitor databases for optimal performance and act to mitigate blocking and

• performance-tuning issues.

• Provide guidance to Application Development staff for query, stored procedures, functions, and database design.

• Document database architecture, configuration settings, baseline performance metrics, and planned and unplanned outages.

• Performs other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information systems or equivalent experience is required.

• Proficient in documenting technical processes and procedures

• OpenEdge 11.x/12.x, Operational knowledge of database backup and OE Replication is a plus.

• PASOE and Pro2SQL experience a plus.

• Experience with scripting languages, including T-SQL and PowerShell, query and index tuning, relational database security design concepts, reporting systems, and data modeling.

• Proven ability to work independently to coordinate and solve moderately complex technical data management issues.

• Proficiency in the use of the English language in reading, writing, and speaking.

• Ability to prioritize multiple large projects as well as day-to-day tasks.

• Ability to describe complex tasks to non-technical people.

• Strong analytical skills in making the appropriate business and technical decisions.

• Strong interpersonal, teamwork, organizational, and workload planning skills are essential for this position.

• Ability to function independently and produce results that meet standards of quality, timeliness, and acceptability.

• Ability to work effectively within a team environment with other IT groups and our business partners.

• Ability to pass a drug test.

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