Senior Database Administrator (Open Rank)

About the role

The University of Colorado Anschutz Department of Information Strategy and Services seeks a Senior Database Administrator to join our dynamic team. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the development and maintenance of enterprise data systems, supporting a world-class medical campus.

Responsibilities

• Plan, deploy and manage Azure SQL databases in both operational and analytical environments.
• Maintain database health, performance, and security, ensuring compliance with organizational standards.
• Collaborate with data analysts, data modelers, and engineers to support data lake, BI, and analytic needs.
• Create and manage database objects, including schemas, tables, views, and procedures.
• Investigate, diagnose, and remediate databases by recommending indexes, partitions, and other techniques to optimize data structures and improve query performance.
• Participate in database migrations and refresh non-production environments with production data.
• Develop and maintain automation strategies and techniques for deployment and management.
• Develop and maintain documentation for databases and cloud configurations, policies, and procedures.
• Contribute to cloud native backup, fail-over, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Support production on-call rotation for database administration.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of database administration and development, especially Azure SQL Server.
• Experience with cloud technologies specifically in an Azure environment, Windows, Linux, and on-premises and cloud networking.
• Experience with implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and version control solutions like GitHub.
• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with technical and business stakeholders.
• Self-motivation, curiosity, and commitment to continuous learning.
• Familiarity with data warehouse/data lake standards as well as associated business intelligence tools.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Information systems, or a closely related field. Four years of professional or high-level technical work experience may substitute for the Bachelor’s degree. An associate’s degree with two years of relevant work experience may substitute for the bachelor’s degree.
• Preferred Qualifications: Experience in support of 24x7, five-nines, enterprise production environment; experience in public higher education, state or federal government; Operational Data Store, Data Warehouse, Data Lake and/or Business Intelligence ecosystem experience; experience in data visualization tools such as PowerBI and Tableau; experience in managing an automated database environment via CI/CD Pipelines, API integrations and Terraform Infrastructure as Code; experience in Oracle Database Management Systems 19c and above; working knowledge of HIPAA and NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-171 security controls; experience working in a VMware clustered environment; familiarity with Oracle, Windows, Linux, shell scripting, networking, data transfer and data security in transit and at rest; experience configuring and supporting Windows Server and/or Linux environments related to database workloads; experience with data compliance and classification; demonstrated willingness to learn and utilize new technologies and software; experience using documentation tools and source code repositories (Confluence, GitHub, etc.); exceptional analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities; curiosity, self-motivation, and a desire for continuous learning.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Additional Insurance
• Disability
• Life
• Vision
• Retirement 401(a) Plan: Employer contributes 10% of your gross pay
• Paid Time Off: Accruals over the year
• Vacation Days: 22/year (maximum accrual 352 hours)
• Sick Days: 15/year (unlimited maximum accrual)
• Holiday Days: 10/year
• Tuition Benefit: Employees have access to this benefit on all CU campuses
• ECO Pass: Reduced rate RTD Bus and light rail service

Why Join Us

We are committed to creating a workplace where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity, and we encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply, including protected veterans and in-state residents.