What are the responsibilities and job description for the Database Administrator (DBA) position at American Integrity Insurance Company of Florida, Inc.?
About Us:
American Integrity Insurance, a premier writer of homeowners insurance, has more than 280,000 customers and is exclusively represented by more than 1,000 independent agents who specialize in this complex and ever-evolving market. We offer sound and comprehensive home and dwelling insurance to families throughout the Southeast. Comprised of more than 300 insurance professionals, most of whom work in our Tampa-area headquarters, we have been recognized as a Top Place to Work in Tampa by the Tampa Bay Times and a Best Places to Work in Insurance by Business Insurance magazine for the past ten years. We have also rated among the Top Workplaces in the USA by USA Today for the past four years.
A Day in the Life:
Who Says Insurance Can’t Be Fun? From company picnics to charity events, no one can ever say American Integrity Insurance doesn’t understand the importance of having fun, helping others and giving back. Our company culture is priceless, and we hold true to our six core values: integrity, commitment, teamwork, humility, passion and fun. As a team working to provide home insurance solutions to our policyholders, together we aim to achieve greater heights each day and celebrate each other's accomplishments along the way. It is our mission to continue providing reliable, customer-centric homeowners insurance and paying claims in a timely manner when our customers suffer a loss – and to do so with Integrity.
Learn more about American Integrity Insurance and our job opportunities at https://careers.americanintegrityinsurance.com.
What You'll Do
- Install, configure, test, and patch SQL Server Instance.
- Manage SQL Server databases and managed instances.
- Ensure recoverability and adequate disaster recovery of databases.
- Provide guidance and standards for the maintenance and administration of databases to ensure high availability.
- Monitor SQL Agent jobs and respond to critical job notifications on failure.
- Determine and provide for the documentation of tools, techniques, processes, and procedures for orderly maintenance of databases, including backup, archival, recovery, etc.
- Provide project leadership for various database initiatives and direction and guidance of database monitoring and space utilization and performance; designs and provides guidelines for requisite performance testing.
- Serve as a representative to internal and external forums for database problem resolution.
- Troubleshoot and resolve problems with production systems; escalate issues and facilitate resolution.
- Configure SQL Server monitoring utilities to minimize false alarms and troubleshoot service outages as they occur, including after-hours and weekends as needed.
- Identify resource-intensive queries, suggest improvements, and assist in tuning queries.
- Assist systems staff with day-to-day operational duties.
- Communicate with other departments as needed to resolve any problems/questions.
- Assist with conversion from legacy applications to new relational database applications.
- Assist with the implementation of large pre-developed systems.
- Automate common management tasks using PowerShell.
- Evaluate data access and security to ensure that electronic data resources are available to those who need access and protected.
- Automate database Management tasks.
What You'll Need to be a Top Candidate
Education:
- Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or similiar.
Experience:
- Minimum of five (5) years with SQL Server.
- Minimum of five (5) years with Application development experience of complex T-SQL stored procedures and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS).
- Good analytical & problem-solving skills and interest in learning and applying new technologies.
Other Skills:
- Knowledge of relational database software technology and database environments.
Strong verbal and written communication skills. - Ability to program in SQL.
Ability to effectively interact with employees at all levels of the organization. - Ability to anticipate and resolve problems.
- Ability to work under time constraints and meet deadlines.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision.
- Ability to adhere to all organizational policies and procedures.
