Senior Database Administrator

• Duration: 8 Months Contract (possibility of extension)
• Location: Hybrid- Atlanta, GA
• Pay rate: Hourly, depending on experience
• Job ID: 723285

• Define data conversion, data quality, and data cleansing criteria for COTS vendors
• Work with vendors to integrate COTS based solutions within DPH
• Design, build, upgrade and patch highly available database solutions for mission critical applications
• Perform database tuning as needed to optimize application performance
• Troubleshoot database related outages as part of a larger team supporting other layers of the technology environment
• Proven experience converting data from one database platform to another such as Oracle to MS SQL Server
• Proven experience building and managing high scalable database solutions on cloud platforms
• Guide the design, development, deployment and management highly reliable and scalable databases
• Enforce company policies in areas of database design, security, change management, compliance documentation and separation of duties 

• Bachelor Degree from an accredited University in computer science, or  related field..
• 15+ years experience building, maintaining, securing and backing up databases across multiple platforms such as Oracle and MS SQL Server.
• 3+ years experience working with configuring database solutions in a cloud environment such as Microsoft Azure or AWS
• 15+ years experience working with data cleansing, data conversions, data migrations
• 15+ years providing enterprise application and database operational support
• 10+ years application development experience with languages such as: Java, .NET, Json, Java Script, C#, etc.
• 10+ years building, integrating, or implementing COTS enterprise level database solutions  for State Government agencies
• 5+ years implementing infrastructure architecture that supports enterprise applications
• 3+ years experience designing and implementing high availability system

• Thinks strategically, understands the big picture but is also able to execute on tactical operational situations working with disparate databases
• Solves complex problems and drives action across the organization
• Clearly articulate integration issues with vendors working on COTS and/or custom applications with the ability to drive results and develop solutions
• working with Server Engineers, preparing specifications for the database servers, monitoring and tuning the application databases, and establishing communication links across Database Management Systems
• directs and controls activities relating to database management, planning, development, and security
• Ability to work with multiple database products such as Oracle, MS SQL server, MySQL, Amazon RDS, Postgres etc.
• Experience working with TOAD, Visual Studio, WebLogic, JBOSS, SQL, PL/SQL, .NET, C#, Java, XML, and SQL Developer

• Paid Holidays/Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Medical/Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Short Term/Long Term Disability
• Life Insurance
• 401 (K)

Last updated on Oct 23, 2023