"Senior Database Administrator"

Senior Database Administrator

Job Summary

Database Administrators
Perform activities related to the day-to-day administration and maintenance of transactional databases, ensuring that the database is available, performing properly, and safe. Perform installations, upgrades and patching, backup and recovery, performance tuning, security, monitoring, and configuration. Confer with appropriate managers regarding problems with and capabilities of databases.
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The department may choose to hire at any of the below job levels and associated pay rates based on their business need and budget.Develops, implements, administers, and maintains policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of the company database. Implements data models, database designs, data access and table maintenance codes. Resolves database performance and capacity issues, and replication and other distributed data issues. Works with application team to design database objects that meets business requirements and production standards. This requires obtaining application knowledge while working with architects, data modelers, and application developers. Ensures the performance of the databases and application code from development to production. Installs and migrates object changes through multiple test environments and production. Works on complex projects. Develops and implements database recovery plans and procedures. Installs, upgrades and tests complex database software. Works in multiple projects simultaneously which spans multiple applications releases.

Responsibilities

Database Administrator, IVPerform activities related to the day-to-day administration and maintenance of transactional databases, ensuring that the database is available, performing properly, and safe. Perform installations, upgrades and patching, backup and recovery, performance tuning, security, monitoring, and configuration. Confer with appropriate managers regarding problems with and capabilities of databases. Recognized as subject matter expert and advanced individual contributor professional. Requires specialized skill set. Conducts highly complex work, unsupervised and with extensive latitude for independent judgment.Requires a bachelor's (or equivalency) + 8 years or a master's (or equivalency) + 6 years of directly related work experience.This is an Advanced-Level position in the General Professional track.Job Code: P33944Grade: P21Expected Pay Range: $64,122 to $147,104
Database Administrator, VPerform activities related to the day-to-day administration and maintenance of transactional databases, ensuring that the database is available, performing properly, and safe. Perform installations, upgrades and patching, backup and recovery, performance tuning, security, monitoring, and configuration. Confer with appropriate managers regarding problems with and capabilities of databases. Recognized as subject matter expert and advanced individual contributor professional. Requires specialized skill set. Conducts highly complex work, unsupervised and with extensive latitude for independent judgment.Requires a bachelor's (or equivalency) + 10 years or a master's (or equivalency) + 8 years of directly related work experience.This is an Expert-Level position in the General Professional track.Job Code: P33945Grade: P22Expected Pay Range: $70,535 to $161,814
Technology is constantly evolving, and therefore our responsibilities also change based on evolving technical and business requirements. The following is not meant as a complete or exhaustive list of responsibilities, as we need to remain agile and flexible to changes.

Senior Technical Role:
• Lead out and provide technical guidance, resolve complex issues, and work on complex projects• Ability to learn new technologies and facilitate knowledge sharing with team• Be a mentors to other staff members• Work on roadmaps and capacity planning
Teamwork:
• Willing and able to share work and collaborate with other team members
Documentation:
• Develop & share documented Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)• Develop & share architecture diagrams and run-books
Automation:
• Improve efficiently by automating repetitive tasks• Share automated scripts or programs with team
Monitoring:
• Monitor systems and provide health status to team and management• Ensure databases are up/healthy and secure by monitoring systems and resolving issues as they arise, including performance tuning, etc.• Gather metrics and present reports or findings to management• Proactively monitor data storage capacity and project growth requirements
Security:
• Develops, implements, administers, and maintains policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of databases.• Develop and implement backup, restore, and database recovery plans• Manage DB User Access• Perform End-of-Life Support prevention upgrades, and apply patches to address vulnerabilities
Customer Service:
• Work with customers and application teams to design database objects that meets business requirements and production standards. This requires obtaining application knowledge while working with architects, data modelers, and application developers, etc.• Maintain positive relationship with customers and translate business requirements into technical solutions• Work with customers on Software Development Life Cycle through multiple development, test, production and other environments• Monitor & resolve ticket queues to ensure high quality of customer service and meet SLA timelines.
Daily Work:
• Expected to learn and become proficient in all database technologies that we administer, including Cloud platform technologies• Implement data models, database designs, data access and table maintenance codes.• Resolves database performance and capacity issues, and replication and other distributed data issues.• Ensures the performance of the databases by managing configuration and DB objects to work with application code from development to production.• Refresh production databases to Non-Prod environments as requested• Works on complex projects both on-premises and on the Cloud• Install, upgrade, and test complex database software• Works in multiple projects simultaneously which spans multiple applications releases• Troubleshoot issues as they arise in a timely manner**• All other duties as assigned**

Minimum Qualifications

EQUIVALENCY STATEMENT: 1 year of higher education can be substituted for 1 year of directly related work experience (Example: bachelor's degree = 4 years of directly related work experience).
Department may hire employee at one of the following job levels:.
Database Administrator, IV: Requires a bachelor's (or equivalency) + 8 years or a master's (or equivalency) + 6 years of directly related work experience.
Database Administrator, V: Requires a bachelor's (or equivalency) + 10 years or a master's (or equivalency) + 8 years of directly related work experience.

Preferences

• Database Certifications (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL)
• Cloud Certifications (Comptia, AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI)
• Programming and Automation Experience (Shell Scripting, PowerShell, Python, etc.)
• Technical Academic Degree
• Experience with PeopleSoft

Special Instructions

Requisition Number: PRN43629B
Full Time or Part Time? Full Time
Work Schedule Summary: Business Hours plus on-call rotation
Department: 01555 - UIT INFRASTRUCTURE & OPS
Location: Campus
Pay Rate Range: 64122 to 161814
Close Date: 5/15/2026
Open Until Filled:
To apply, visit https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/192386