Senior Database Administrator

Job Summary

The Senior Database Administrator is responsible for administering, optimizing, and ensuring the security, availability, and reliability of OmniOps’ business-critical database environments. The role requires hands-on expertise across Microsoft SQL Server, IBM Db2, and PostgreSQL, with responsibility for installation, configuration, performance tuning, backup and recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, and production support.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, administer, maintain, and upgrade Microsoft SQL Server, IBM Db2, and PostgreSQL environments.
• Monitor database health, availability, performance, capacity, and resource utilization; identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
• Perform query optimization, indexing, execution plan analysis, and database performance tuning.
• Design and maintain backup and restoration strategies; develop, implement, and test disaster recovery and business continuity procedures.
• Design, implement, and maintain high-availability architectures and database clustering.
• Implement database security controls, access management, authentication, authorization, and role-based permissions.
• Provide L2/L3 production database support, troubleshoot critical incidents, and perform root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with application development, cloud, infrastructure, DevOps, security, and data teams to resolve database-related issues and support architecture discussions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of experience in Database Administration, Database Engineering, or a related role.
• Strong hands-on experience administering Microsoft SQL Server, IBM Db2, and PostgreSQL.
• Proven experience with database performance monitoring, optimization, and query tuning.
• Strong experience with backup, restoration, replication, and disaster recovery.
• Hands-on experience with high-availability architectures and database clustering.
• Strong understanding of database security, access control, patching, and compliance.
• Ability to independently diagnose and resolve critical production database incidents.
• Experience with database migrations, upgrades, and cross-platform integrations.
• Experience working closely with infrastructure, cloud, DevOps, application development, and security teams.

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