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Work you’ll do
Position Summary: We are seeking a skilled and experienced Database Administrator (DBA) to join our dynamic IT team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in managing and supporting databases across development, testing, and production environments within an enterprise data center. This role involves ensuring the optimal performance, availability, and security of databases, as well as providing technical support and troubleshooting.
Key Responsibilities:
Database Management:
- Install, configure, and maintain database systems (e.g., SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL).
- Monitor database performance and ensure high availability and reliability.
- Perform regular updates, patches, and upgrades to database systems.
- Manage database licenses and ensure compliance with vendor agreements.
- Create, modify, delete, reorganize, and perform backup and restoration of database files, as required.
Environment Management:
- Maintain and manage databases across development, testing, and production environments.
- Ensure seamless integration and data consistency across all environments.
- Implement and maintain disaster recovery plans for critical databases.
Technical Support:
- Provide database support for IT systems in a mainframe, client-server, and/or web-based environment.
- Provide technical support to developers, testers, and end-users.
- Troubleshoot and diagnose database-related issues, working with vendors as necessary.
- Develop and maintain documentation for database configurations, processes, and procedures.
Security and Compliance:
- Implement and enforce security best practices for database systems.
- Conduct regular security assessments and vulnerability scans.
- Ensure databases comply with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
- Establish and maintain database security.
Performance Optimization:
- Analyze database performance metrics and identify areas for improvement.
- Optimize database configurations for better performance and efficiency.
- Work with development teams to implement performance enhancements.
- Monitor database performance, resolve problems, perform fine-tuning, and recommend changes to improve efficiency.
Backup and Recovery:
- Develop and implement backup and recovery strategies.
- Perform regular backups and ensure data integrity.
- Test and validate backup and recovery processes.
Collaboration and Communication:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including application administrators, network, and storage administrators.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders, providing updates on database status and performance.
- Participate in on-call rotation for after-hours support as needed.
- Plan and coordinate new requirements with application development staff and advise project teams on the design of complex hierarchical or relational databases.
- Provide management with status of projects, problems, or other outstanding project-related issues.
The team
Deloitte’s Government and Public Services (GPS) practice – our people, ideas, technology and outcomes—is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of over 15,000+ professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.
Our Core Technology Operations group enables differentiation and focused growth for large-scale infrastructure, data center, and operations projects. We take part in operation services for our clients with emphasis on automation and delivery excellence. Our core capabilities include: IT Operations Delivery & Management, Customer Experience Enhancement, Operations Transformation, transportation modernization, and Emerging Technology platforms such as drones and 5G networks.
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or other related discipline.
- 5 years of progressive experience in providing or supporting installation, maintenance, and administration of system software and/or databases in a mainframe, client-server, and/or web-based environment.
- 3 years experience must be directly related to database management.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
- Travel up to 10%
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