Database Administrator

Our field services team covers retail chains, hospitals and banks, dispatching technicians to over 4,000 sites. Large rollouts are routine here, such as imaging 12,000 laptops for a state agency over one summer.

We are adding a Database Administrator to our IT Operations team. We need someone who checks the backups before anyone asks, and who can explain a query plan to a developer. Remote within the US. The team meets in Phoenix once a quarter, travel covered. Flexible hours with a daily team call in the morning.

Main duties:

• Review and deploy schema changes from development teams
• Migrate databases to Amazon RDS, Aurora or Azure SQL
• Control access with roles, least privilege and audited service accounts
• Plan capacity for storage, memory and CPU growth
• Automate maintenance with PowerShell, SQL Agent jobs or Bash
• Upgrade major database versions with minimal downtime
• Set up and maintain Always On availability groups, Data Guard or streaming replication

Required qualifications:

• 3+ years of hands-on database administration experience
• Experience with high availability and disaster recovery setups
• Scripting with PowerShell, Bash or Python
• Proven query and index tuning ability

Also helpful:

• Exposure to SOX, HIPAA or PCI DSS environments

What you get:

Salary: $123,000 to $150,000 a year

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one
• 401(k) with 4% match
• Paid time off
• Short- and long-term disability

EOE. We participate in E-Verify.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Dipper Computer Services LLC.