Sr. Database Administrator

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Job Summary

Responsible for providing advanced installation, maintenance, and administration of database systems. Manages DBA portion of medium IS projects (less than $500,000) in support of business requirements. Supports senior level staff in ensuring that departmental procedures, policies, and standards are followed by all staff members. Continually enhances departmental knowledge and skills. Coaches and mentors less experienced team members.

Essential Functions

• Implements and contributes to the production of disaster recovery documents, tests plans and techniques for maintaining business continuity.
• Troubleshoots and documents complex or highly visible application performance issues. Conducts root cause analysis of failed systems and communicates findings to senior level staff.
• Performs, evaluates, and documents technology evaluations and installations.
• Serves as DBA lead on medium IS projects (total project budget less than $500,000) and participates on multi functional project teams as required to support business requirements. Develops and administers detailed formal project plans, including financial analysis/ROI, deliverables, timelines, and resource allocations.
• Creates technical drawings that illustrate abstract technical concepts, architectures, infrastructures, and strategies.
• Implements and maintains departmental policies, standards and procedures.
• Installs, configures, and provides ongoing administrative and technical support for DB systems.
• Provides on-call and after-hours scheduled support on a rotational basis to fulfill production and project needs.
• Reviews system resource utilization for current projects, estimates future impacts/needs, and communicates results to senior level staff.
• Implements and maintains monitoring tools to analyze and optimize DB systems.  Works with various IS departments and/or vendors to determine and analyze DB requirements and to review and promotes DB changes (including schema, data and security).
• Solicits and provides feedback, coaching, mentoring, and guidance of departmental procedures, policies, standards, and best practices to/from DBA management and team members. Partners with senior level staff to develop curriculum and conduct training for new and less experienced team members.
• Continually enhances knowledge of SQL administration, engineering, and Kindred standards in order to achieve departmental success, professional growth, and to become proficient in new technologies and technical disciplines.
• Adapts and quickly assimilates new systems and network architectures as they are introduced within the company.
• Develops written articles concerning major projects, important technology directions and shifts, evolving industry trends, etc., for in-house publications.
• Prepares and conducts formal presentations for management concerning major projects and new technology directions.
• Presents creative and innovative ideas and approaches that will improve the performance of department, IS, as well as the business goals and strategies of the company.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities/Expectations

• Established successful application utilizing advanced technical tools related to Database Administration, including: Microsoft Active Directory, OU, security, web, client/server and n-tier concepts and designs, and relational database designs (including normal forms and star schemas).
• Successful experience with T-SQL, set-based operations, and Microsoft Clustering.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and experience with a variety of current database technologies.
• Applied understanding of hardware and SAN technologies.
• Ability to manage projects, ensuring that projects are clearly defined, systematically executed, and results oriented. Adherence to Project Management processes and standards within the organization are required.
• Previous experience with and/or ability to quickly learn systems and technologies specifically in use at Kindred.
• Approximate percent of time required to travel:   10

Education

• Bachelor's degree required, preferably in an engineering or technology discipline

Licenses/Certification

• MCSE and/or MCDBA preferred.

Experience

• Minimum of 7 years' experience in IS, with a minimum of 5 years current experience in Database Administration.