Senior Database Administrator

About the role

Responsible for maintaining and supporting the relational database systems in Linux and Microsoft Windows environments. The Senior Database Administrator is an integral part of the Information Technology Department and is responsible for the efficient and effective management of the corporation’s electronic data. The Senior Database Administrator must maintain highly available, stable, secure and recoverable databases.

Responsibilities

• Maintain stable test, training, reporting and production database environments.
• Provide on-call support and for the timely and accurate resolution of problems for all non-development database systems.
• Participate in all phases of projects that interact with the database systems.
• Work with application programmers on the use of database tools, techniques and concepts.
• Assist application developers with writing efficient SQL.
• Plan, install, coordinate and implement programs, interfaces, scripts, products and tools that ease the administration and monitoring of databases.