Senior Database Administrator

About the role

A position with the Office of State Courts Administrator provides you the opportunity to work with a variety of exceptional, hardworking people and to gain a valuable and rewarding career. It takes many types of talent to advance the mission of the Missouri Judiciary and to keep operations running smoothly. We have opportunities for individuals seeking meaningful work in providing administrative, business and information technology services to the Missouri courts.

Responsibilities

• Installation of the database software, new releases and upgrades
• Supporting products
• Management and hands-on database administration
• Designing, configuring, maintaining, documenting and testing database systems of limited complexity
• Identifying problem source (hardware, software or operator error), presenting solutions and resolving problems
• Developing complex query programs to generate reports upon customer requests
• Responding to emergency situations to resolve problems, as required
• Installing, maintaining, defining, organizing, controlling, and protecting hardware and software products
• Creating, monitoring, and modifying the physical size and structure of database components and programs that support, maintain, and generate information from a database

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with at least 15 semester hours in computer science, computer programming, systems analysis and design, or network design and configuration
• 5 years of experience with primary responsibility for the configuration of computer hardware or software in a mainframe, midrange and computer environment or with installation and configuration of operation systems, network design and configuration, installing and configuring software applications

Qualifications

• Additional experience above the minimum stated may be substituted on a year for year basis for the required education

Skills

• Proficient in database design and modeling
• Strong knowledge of installation, configuration, upgrading and applying service packs of the database implementation versions identified by the ITS division
• Strong knowledge of database backup and restore strategy using full database backup/restore and transaction log backup/restore
• Strong knowledge of database clustering
• Strong knowledge of high-availability strategies (includes log shipping, DB replication and failover)
• Experience in database monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning, maintenance and auditing configuration

Benefits

The State of Missouri offers an excellent benefits package that includes a defined pension plan, generous amounts of leave and holiday time, and eligibility for health insurance coverage. Your total compensation is more than the dollars you receive in your paycheck. More information regarding employment and benefits can be found here: OSCABenefits. To review an interactive total compensation calculator, click the following link: CompensationCalculator