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Database Administrator
OPENDataJobs. Keep database services available, recoverable, secure, observable, and appropriately sized .
Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in managing and securing database services, including performance monitoring, backup and recovery procedures, and access control. Proficient in scripting and automation for operational efficiency and disaster recovery planning.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Database AdministrationPerformance DiagnosisBackup And Recovery ProceduresAccess Control And Security HardeningScripting And Automation
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Hard Skills
Relational Database EnginesMonitoringCapacity ManagementReplicationHigh AvailabilityDatabase ConfigurationIncident ResponsePerformance InvestigationDisaster RecoveryPatch Management
Soft Skills
CollaborationProblem-Solving
Tools & Technologies
PostgreSQLMicrosoft SQL ServerOracle DatabaseAmazon Relational Database ServiceAzure SQL
Industry Keywords
Database ServicesOperational DashboardsHealth ChecksEncryption ConfigurationsAudit Support
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAzureCloudMS SQL ServerOraclePostgresSQL
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Keep database services available, recoverable, secure, observable, and appropriately sized
- Manage database configuration, capacity, backups, upgrades, replication, and incident response
- Establish recovery procedures and test restores and failover
- Monitor workload health and investigate contention and resource pressure
- Coordinate patches and administer privileged access
- Connect application behavior, query plans, configuration, data growth, and infrastructure signals during performance work
- Set policy, configure managed database services, validate recovery, tune workloads, manage access, plan version upgrades, interpret monitoring, and respond to service issues
- Build monitoring, alerting, health checks, capacity forecasts, and operational dashboards
- Develop backup, restore, replication, failover, and disaster-recovery procedures with tested evidence
- Create database configuration baselines, maintenance automation, patch plans, and upgrade runbooks
- Implement privileged-access controls, role administration, encryption configurations, and audit support
- Conduct performance investigations and remediation across queries, indexes, configuration, storage, and compute
- Collaborate with developers, architects, security teams, cloud platform teams, and service owners
- Automate repeatable tasks while applying human review where needed
Requirements
What you’ll need- Production administration experience with one or more relational database engines or managed database services
- Hands-on knowledge of monitoring, performance diagnosis, capacity management, backups, restores, replication, and high availability
- Experience planning patches, major-version upgrades, maintenance windows, rollback paths, and disaster-recovery tests
- Understanding of database access control, privileged operations, encryption, audit needs, and security hardening
- Scripting or automation skills for repeatable maintenance, evidence collection, health checks, and operational response
- Future openings may require PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Amazon Relational Database Service, Azure SQL, or another specific engine or managed service
Benefits
Comp & perks- Compensation, benefits, work location, and employment terms are set for each specific opening and will be stated with that opening