Wilbur Smith Associates Inc.International - Denver, CO
posted 3 months ago
CDM Smith is seeking a Lead Database Administrator to join our global IT team. This individual will support mission-critical database systems, integrations, applications, and related infrastructure. The role involves supporting production systems and managing incidents by researching, coordinating resources, communicating with Information Technology (IT) and business staff, and resolving root causes. The Lead Database Administrator will collaborate with other IT teams such as business partners, network, security, cloud infrastructure, application teams, and external vendors and consultants to design, integrate, and implement applications and processes. A key responsibility of this position is to strictly enforce data integrity, data security, and data privacy by reviewing security announcements, performing periodic audit controls, and applying patches. The administrator will research, install, and configure database systems and related services, including hyper care. They will maintain the organization's services across multiple platforms and computing environments, both on-premises and in the cloud, while monitoring system health and performance to ensure high levels of performance and 24/7 availability. The Lead Database Administrator will provide technical expertise from service requests to large multi-year projects for application upgrades, migrations, and patch management. They will independently analyze, solve, and remediate complex issues, providing permanent problem resolution and root cause reports. Additionally, the role includes implementing backups, restoring databases and applications, and recommending recovery models. The administrator will develop, modify, and enhance scripts for backups, obfuscation, alerts, process improvements, routine and ad hoc reporting, and automation wherever possible. Creating and maintaining operations and deployment documentation is essential, as is providing knowledge transfer to team members. The administrator will also update the DBA Portal Page in Microsoft Teams and plan, create, participate in reviews, and execute production deployments. Finally, they will review current processes to ensure they are functioning properly and offer solutions for improving existing workflows.