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Senior Database Administrator

LHH Recruitment Solutions
San Diego, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/14/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/7/2025

The Database Administrator is responsible for designing, installing, configuring, optimizing, and patching databases. You will provide day-to-day operational and technical support for databases across the enterprise, offering technical expertise to other members of the IT team and development / engineering teams. The right person for this role will have a few years of working DBA experience, be forward-thinking, and be passionate about technology. Excellent communication skills both in person and remote are critical for this role, coupled with the ability to interface well with other teams and quickly grasp business drivers that the technology supports.

You may be hired as a Database Administrator or a Senior Database Administrator based on your depth of skill and breadth of experience.

Responsibilities :

  • Perform successful database installations, upgrades, and migrations with Cloud Database Technologies including AWS RedShift, RDS, Azure Synapse, MySQL, Postgres
  • Design and architect various layers of Data Warehouses and Data Lakes
  • Administer an Oracle Private Cloud Appliance (PCA) using RAC, ASM, and Oracle Database
  • Design database architecture solutions for capacity, performance, security, reliability, and availability
  • Install and configure the Oracle Data Masking utility and automate the masking process with system environments
  • Analyze and tune extremely complex database queries
  • Install and maintain the performance of database servers
  • Develop processes for optimizing database security
  • Set and maintain database standards, manage database access
  • Performance tuning of database systems and application SQL code
  • Install, upgrade, and manage database software
  • Diagnose and troubleshoot database errors utilizing vendor support when required
  • Recommend and implement emerging database technologies
  • Create and manage database reports, visualizations, and interface with Enterprise monitoring systems
  • Create database utilities using various scripting languages (Python, Bourne, Perl, Power) for database automation tasks and maintenance jobs

Education and Experience :

  • 5 years of core database administrator experience in a high-volume, web-facing, highly available environment
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, information sciences, or a related field
  • Must have demonstrated expertise on Oracle change data capture
  • Advanced knowledge of database security, backup and recovery, and performance monitoring standards
  • Excellent communication skills with demonstrated ability to interface well with other teams and quickly grasp business drivers that the technology supports
  • Strong command of Cloud Technologies Azure, AWS, and related database services
  • Strong mathematical and statistical knowledge
  • Pay Details : $125,000.00 to $165,000.00 per year

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  • Salary : $125,000 - $165,000

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