Database Administrator
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Job Description
Database Administrator (SQL Server/MySQL/AWS RDS)
Minimum Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, MIS or a related field required, however equivalent experience may be substituted for educational requirements
- Industry related certifications are preferred, but not required
Experience and Technical Skills
- 5+ years of database administration experience
- Production experience with SQL Server, MySQL
- Proficiency in AWS RDS is preferred
- Experience with Shell scripting
- Experience upgrading and migrating to the cloud
- Solid understanding of high availability failover replication
Day-to-day responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Create, design, develop and implement logical and physical database schemas and tables
- Optimize database architecture schema and structures, to include files, tables, and table spaces
- Develop scripts, documentation, and procedures for database administration and testing
- Establish periodic schedules to test validity of backups and ability to perform restores
- Ensure data backups do not exceed configured space
- Establish query standards for accessing databases of different sizes, selecting and upgrading recommended attributes
- Provide tuning and performance of the database environment by monitoring optimum values for database parameters
- Respond with a sense of urgency to production impacting problems
- Other duties as assigned