Database Administrator

Ccf Holdings - Carrollton, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Onsite - Carrollton, TX

1,001-5,000 employees

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About the position

The Database Administrator at Community Choice Financial is responsible for managing and optimizing the organization's databases, ensuring data security, integrity, and availability. This role involves collaborating with various teams to implement database solutions, monitor performance, and support business intelligence initiatives. The ideal candidate will possess a strong technical background in database management systems and cloud infrastructure, along with excellent problem-solving skills to address data-related issues effectively.

Responsibilities

• Create and organize systems to store and secure data; design and build new databases.
• Ensure that data is secure and protected from unauthorized access, breaches, and other threats.
• Work with other teams to assure that all Databases are setup for Monitoring and Alerting based on Thresholds that are agreed upon, and that the alerts are setup to be delivered to the appropriate Teams for Monitoring.
• Ensure that databases operate efficiently and without error, and tuning performance when needed.
• Backup and restore data to prevent data loss.
• Make sure that data is available to authorized users and that users can easily access the information they need.
• Create and test modifications to database structure when needed.
• Provide support to users and troubleshooting any data-related issues.
• Establish and ensure database standards for security, reliability, availability, and scalability.
• Identify opportunities for database infrastructure optimization and cost reduction.
• Coordinate the business intelligence (BI) system to transform raw data into meaningful insights.
• Collaborate with developers to design and implement new features.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in IT related field or equivalent experience.
• Database Performance Tuning (MSSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, etc.).
• Database Management Requirements Analysis.
• Software Development Fundamentals.
• Data Maintenance.
• Database Security.
• Promoting Process Improvement.
• System Administration.

Nice-to-haves

• Strong knowledge and experience in setting up, securing, and managing public cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure).
• Experience building and working with public cloud infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge and experience in configuring and managing Windows Server/Clients within a Cloud environment.
• Demonstrated knowledge of cloud provisioning and administration, cloud interoperability, cloud disaster recovery and business continuity strategies, as well as performance measurement and monitoring in the cloud on a large scale.
• Deep knowledge of web protocols, multiple operating systems, hypervisors and distributed systems architecture AWS, and/or Azure platforms and services.
• Strong programming skills and fluency with at least one of the following scripting languages: Python, Powershell.
• Experience in Linux/UNIX system administration.
• Experience with Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Open Shift).
• Cloud provider certification (e.g., AWS Certified Developer, AWS Certified Architect, Azure).
• Experience with architecting software solutions.
• Agile development practices and test-driven development.

Benefits

• Wellness program
• Health savings account
• AD&D insurance
• Disability insurance
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• 401(k)
• Flexible spending account
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Life insurance
• Pet insurance