Senior Database Administrator

Senior Database Administrator What you will be doing:

As a Senior DBA, you will take on a leadership role within the database team. In addition to managing and optimizing databases, you will mentor team members, oversee database projects, and make technical recommendations to improve performance and scalability. You will also have a more strategic role in planning and executing database initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead database management efforts, ensuring best practices for both on-premises and cloud-based systems.
• Design and implement disaster recovery, failover, and backup strategies, ensuring minimal downtime and data availability.
• Perform advanced database performance tuning, including resource optimization and identifying long-term improvements.
• Lead and mentor DBAs, offering guidance on technical issues and helping to develop their skills.
• Plan and execute database upgrades, patches, and vulnerability management in both traditional and cloud environments.
• Develop and maintain SQL procedures, views, and scripts to support production and reporting systems.
• Collaborate with system administrators and other teams to perform capacity planning and manage database scalability.
• Provide leadership in troubleshooting complex database issues and drive incident resolution.
• Participate in cross-team strategic planning and product development meetings, offering technical expertise on database solutions.

Key Responsibilities

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Database Administration

• Utilize knowledge of database design to work closely with architects in database creation and on-going maintenance tasks

• Utilize knowledge of database features and upcoming releases to drive database technology decisions and mentor other DBAs

• Write and troubleshoot advanced SQL and PL/SQL

• Expert knowledge navigating UNIX/LINUX systems as well as shell scripting

• Able to identify and write the requirements for any scripting pr