Senior Database Administrator - Remote

Full-time - Senior

Remote - La Crosse, WI

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About the position

For those who want to invent the future of health care, here's your opportunity. We're going beyond basic care to health programs integrated across the entire continuum of care. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. The Senior Data Engineer will design, implement and maintain databases and strategies to ensure performance, availability, integrity and security of company databases. Monitor and improve database performance and capacity utilization to provide high database availability and redundancy. You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and provide Azure SQL database solutions that support company objectives
• Work with software design and development teams in designing database architectures and data modeling, building database schemas, tables, procedures and views
• Work with the system administrators for hardware and software installations and configurations
• Administer, monitor, and maintain Azure SQL databases, ensuring their integrity, security, and high performance
• Collaborate with the infrastructure team to design, implement, and maintain the database architecture, including high-availability and disaster recovery solutions
• Manage database environments within the Azure cloud platform
• Participate in database testing and quality assurance processes to validate database changes and updates
• Analyze and tune Azure SQL database for optimal efficiency by identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks, implementing query optimization, and fine-tuning database configurations to achieve optimal performance
• Analyze and sustain capacity and performance requirements, including effective use of indexes, enabling parallel query execution, and other DBMS features, such as query store
• Create and manage efficient database indexes to enhance query performance and reduce database access times
• Maintain thorough documentation of database configurations, procedures, and best practices
• Add and remove users, administer roles and permissions, audit, and check for security problems

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Azure SQL Server Data Engineer with experience in design, implementation, and management
• 3+ years of proven experience managing Databases on Azure or AWS
• 1+ years of experience PII Personally Identifiable Information or PHI Personal Health Information
• 1+ years of experience with change management systems, such as ServiceNow and Jira
• 1+ years of experience with SQL waits, locking, blocking and resource contention
• United States citizenship is required for this position
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a suitability or determination of eligibility for a Confidential/Secret or Top Secret security clearance

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelors degree in related field
• 2+ years of experience with Design, Configuration, and Administration of highly available enterprise PostgreSQL solutions
• 1+ years of experience with federal contracts, including STIG, NIST, SOC auditing, CUI, PII/PHI
• 1+ years of data security with regards to Confidential Unclassified Information
• 1+ years of experience with Design, Configuration, and Administration of highly available enterprise PostgreSQL solutions
• All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Incentive and recognition programs
• Equity stock purchase
• 401k contribution