Broward County - Plantation, FL
posted 2 months ago
The role of the Database Administrator with Enterprise Technology Services is to work at a high level to facilitate effective database services with a diverse group of technical and customer stakeholders toward optimal business goals. This position requires leading teams and working independently within a team to resolve project objectives and production support related to SQL databases and applications, often under critical time frames. The Database Administrator will manage medium and large-sized production database systems across multiple environments, including MS SQL Server 2017, 2019, and 2022 on Windows Servers, as well as Oracle databases on Windows and Linux Servers. In this role, the Database Administrator will independently provide decision-making support for best practice database administration. They will possess in-depth knowledge and experience in implementing High Availability Disaster Recovery solutions, including Log Shipping, Transactional Replication, Microsoft Windows Clustering, and SQL Always On Availability Groups. The position also involves analyzing and designing data-driven business solutions for agency customers, collaborating with technical team members and vendors to implement new software solutions per vendor specifications. The Database Administrator will create and implement capacity plans that encompass SAN storage, drive optimizations, CPU/memory management, and life-cycle management. They will develop and implement backup and recovery plans, schedule backups, monitor job statuses, and validate database restores, including conducting Disaster Recovery (DR) failover testing validation. Additionally, the role includes developing and maintaining technical standards and procedures, installing, configuring, patching, testing, and upgrading Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle database software, and recommending solutions to vendor and county-built application issues and business problems.