Database Administrator

Key Responsibilities

• Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain database servers, database management systems, and related application tools.
• Establish database storage requirements and modify database structures to support business and application needs.
• Perform routine database maintenance, including troubleshooting, debugging, patching, performance tuning, and reporting.
• Monitor database performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement optimization strategies.
• Analyze and optimize SQL queries, indexing strategies, and database configuration parameters.
• Implement database security controls, authentication mechanisms, and organizational security policies.
• Manage database user accounts, roles, permissions, privileges, and audit activities.
• Ensure compliance with applicable regulatory requirements and organizational data governance standards.
• Design, implement, and maintain database backup and disaster recovery strategies.
• Validate backup integrity and support database restoration and recovery operations.
• Support database design, schema development, and testing activities.
• Collaborate with application developers, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders to ensure effective database utilization.
• Develop and maintain database objects, including stored procedures, triggers, and performance alerts.
• Monitor transaction volumes, concurrency, response times, and other database performance metrics.
• Perform database housekeeping activities, including indexing, capacity management, data cleanup, and routine optimization.
• Maintain database documentation, operational procedures, and performance reports.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Hands-on experience administering relational database management systems such as:
  • Oracle
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
• Strong proficiency in SQL, database architecture, and relational database concepts.
• Experience with database installation, configuration, upgrades, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Strong knowledge of database backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery procedures.
• Experience with database performance monitoring, query optimization, indexing, and tuning.
• Knowledge of database security, authentication, authorization, access management, and auditing.
• Experience with cloud database technologies such as:
  • Microsoft Azure SQL
  • AWS RDS
  • Google Cloud SQL
• Understanding of database design, schema development, stored procedures, and triggers.
• Familiarity with programming languages, APIs, and application-to-database integration.
• Experience with capacity planning, transaction monitoring, and database resource management.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting enterprise-scale database environments.
• Previous experience working in healthcare, government, financial services, or other highly regulated industries.
• Familiarity with healthcare data security, regulatory compliance, and data governance practices.
• Experience supporting production, development, and testing database environments.
• Knowledge of database monitoring, auditing, and automated maintenance tools