Senior DBA - Technology Solutions

Location : Jacksonville, FL

Job Type : Appointed Employee

Job Number : 2025-06407

Department : TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

Opening Date : 02 / 03 / 2025

Closing Date : Continuous

Job Description

Are you looking for a position with a work / life balance? Do you want to earn four (4) weeks off during your first year of employment? Do you want low and no cost health insurance options? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you need to complete your application now. Work for the city you love!!!

The Technology Solutions Department is actively seeking a Senior DBA.

Did you know as a City of Jacksonville employee, you would also have twelve (12) paid holidays and a personal leave day as well? In addition to health insurance, dental, vision, life insurance and flexible spending plans are also available. City of Jacksonville employees are also eligible for Federal Student Loan Forgiveness after ten (10) years of public service and on-time payments.

The Senior SQL Server DBA reports to the Server Infrastructure Manager and is an advanced technical position. The incumbent is responsible for the implementation, configuration, maintenance, and performance of critical SQL Server RDBMS systems, to ensure the availability and consistent performance of the City's applications. Work as part of a successful matrix team of IIS / Web Administrator, Oracle DBA and Server Engineers.

Examples of Work

• Manage SQL Server databases through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to mission-critical production systems.
• Configure and maintain database servers and processes, including monitoring of system health and performance, to ensure high levels of performance, availability and security.
• Apply data modeling techniques to ensure development and implementation support efforts meet integration and performance expectations.
• Independently analyze, solve, and correct issues in real time, providing problem resolution end-to-end.
• Refine and automate regular processes, track issues and document changes.
• Assist developers with complex query tuning and schema refinement.
• Provide 24x7 support for critical production systems.
• Perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment after hours.
• Conduct periodic database restoration and recovery to ensure viability of backup methodology.
• Make changes for stored procedures and other database objects to the production environment.
• Install and configure new SQL Servers.
• Deploy database change scripts provided by third party vendors.
• When performance issues arise, determine the most effective way to increase performance including server configuration changes.
• Serve as subject matter expert for IT projects, products and services.
• Conduct proactive maintenance of IT infrastructure with minimal supervision including maintaining high level of systems availability, monitoring systems performance and reliability to mitigate outages and system interruptions, managing tools for providing early warning and alerts, and monitoring system capacity utilization and taking proactive steps to avoid over utilization.
• Work with vendors to resolve system outages.
• Work closely with other technology and application personnel to understand and implement application requirements, server / network / storage tuning, and configuration changes.
• Consult in design of new applications and services to ensure they can be support by the infrastructure
• Diagnose and resolve technical issues, conduct root cause analysis, and demonstrate consistent level of accuracy with basic problem resolution.
• Maintain an in-depth knowledge of a specific current technology, both internally and within IT industry, and its applicability to the organization.
• Operate personal computer including word, spreadsheet, database, and other related software to include Visio.
• Respond to and resolve assigned tickets and requests.
• Demonstrate proficiency in the City of Jacksonville Core Competencies.
• Proficient communication and presentation skills.
• Must be able to clearly document technical information for team review and for management.
• At times when required, must be able to cross-train and perform other server and database functions.
• After hours work as required.
• Performs related work as required.

Open Requirements / Supplemental Information

Preferred

Other Requirements :

A FULLY COMPLETED ONLINE APPLICATION IS REQUIRED. Apply at Work history is required for all employment / volunteer work in which qualifications are being based. When meeting / basing qualifications on education, a copy of your college transcript, with your social blacked out, is required with your application. U.S. transcripts do not need to be official, but must state your name, the school's name, classes taken, grades received, type of degree, and date degree was conferred. Transcripts outside the U.S. must be converted to U.S. standards.

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Certain servicemembers and veterans, and the spouses and the family members of such service members and veterans, receive preference and priority, and certain servicemembers may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements, in employment and are encouraged to apply for positions being filled.

If claiming veteran's preference, you must attach a DD-214 (Member Form-4 copy) or military discharge papers, or equivalent certification from the Department of Veterans Affairs listing military status, dates of service and character of discharge. You must also attach the Veterans Preference Certification Form and if applicable, the additional forms as noted here :

If a candidate believes he or she was not afforded veteran's preference, he or she may file a written complaint, within sixty (60) calendar days upon receipt of notification of the hiring decision, requesting an investigation to :

Florida Department of Veterans Affairs

Attention : Veterans' Preference Coordinator

11351 Ulmerton Road, Suite 311-K

Largo, FL 33778-1630

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The City of Jacksonville provides a wide array of benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Our comprehensive benefit programs include medical, dental and vision plans; life insurance coverage for you and your dependents; flexible spending plans for medical reimbursement, dependent care, parking, and transit expenses; an employee assistance program for you and your dependents; a 457(b) tax-deferred compensation plan to supplement your retirement, and a ROTH IRA plan. We also provide an extensive wellness program that includes a health intervention program if qualified, lunch and learns, health fairs, and discounted gym memberships. Please visit the Employee Benefits website for details on all the plans we offer.

Each applicant must complete this supplemental questionnaire as a part of the application screening and selection process. The information you provide will be reviewed and used to determine your eligibility to move forward in the selection process. Copying and pasting your resume or stating "see resume" does NOT fulfill the requirements of the question. Incomplete responses, false statements, omissions, or partial information may result in disqualification from the selection process. Do you agree to answer each supplemental question truthfully and certify that your responses can be verified from information included within the application?

Are you authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship from the City of Jacksonville either now or in the future?

A Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in IT, Computer Science, or related field is preferred. Do you have a bachelors' degree or higher from an accredited college or university?

If you have a degree, indicate which degree you have and include any major / minor. If basing qualifications on education, a copy of your college transcript is required with your application.

Do you have eight (8) years of education and / or experience in information technology?

Provide a detailed description (at least 3-4 complete sentences) of your experience.

Indicate the organization(s) you worked for where you gained this experience.

Of the eight (8) years of experience, do you have at least four (4) years of professional experience with MS SQL Server Administration and proficiency with Windows Server 2008 through 2022 operating systems.

Provide a detailed description (at least 3-4 complete sentences) of your experience.

Indicate the organization(s) you worked for where you gained this experience.

Do you have experience with Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO), using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools?

Provide a detailed description (at least 3-4 complete sentences) of your experience.

Indicate the organization(s) you worked for where you gained this experience.

Do you have experience with SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) and SQL Server Report Services (SSRS) of MS SQL Server Tools.

Provide a detailed description (at least 3-4 complete sentences) of your experience.

Indicate the organization(s) you worked for where you gained this experience.

Do you possess knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for SQL Server.

Provide a detailed description (at least 3-4 complete sentences) of your experience.

Indicate the organization(s) you worked for where you gained this experience.

Do you understand that you will be required to adjust work hours / schedule occasionally, if necessary, to meet time critical demands?

Must pass the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) background screening performed by the Jacksonville Sherriff's Office prior to appointment.

Within 30 days of appointment date to classification, acquire and maintain the appropriate level of Criminal Justice Information (CJIS) certification which corresponds to the job responsibilities. The level will be determined by current CJIS guidelines and may change periodically. Certification is obtained by successfully completing web-based training courses which cover physical security, incident response, the protection of information and other IT specific security threats, vulnerabilities and risk security, incident response, the protection of information and other IT specific security threats, vulnerabilities, and risk.

If you are requesting veterans preference, you MUST download the appropriate state of Florida form (even if you don't live in Florida) and attach it to your application. FAILURE TO DO SO WILL DELAY YOUR VETERANS PREFERENCE STATUS.Please download the forms at

A resume is required with your application. If basing qualifications on education, a copy of your college transcript is required with your application. College transcripts do not need to be official, but must state your name, the name of the school, type of degree, classes taken, grades received and date degree was conferred. NOTE : A copy of your diploma does not meet this requirement. Transcripts from colleges outside of the U.S. must be converted to U.S. Standards. If required documents are not provided your application will be considered incomplete and may result in disqualification from the selection process.

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