
Junior Database Administrator
Building Service 32BJ Benefit Funds
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $90,000 - $100,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Under the supervision of the Manager, DevOps, provides day-to-day operational support for on-premises and cloud database environments
- Assist with the administration and support of Microsoft SQL Server (on-premises and Azure SQL) environments
- Perform routine database maintenance tasks, including backups, restores, monitoring, performance tuning and health checks
- Support database availability, integrity, performance, and reliability under the guidance of the Senior DBA
- Assist in patch management and version upgrades
- Participate in high-availability and disaster recovery testing
- Support SQL Agent jobs and scheduled processes
- Assist with user access provisioning and periodic access reviews
- Monitor database activity alerts and escalate anomalies
- Support vulnerability remediation efforts
- Contribute to automation initiatives to reduce manual operational tasks
- Help maintain migration documentation, runbooks, and checklists
- Support ETL, data movement, and integration tasks using existing tools and frameworks
- Participate in project meetings and technical discussions as appropriate.
Requirements
- 1–3 years of experience in IT operations, systems administration, application support, or database support
- Working knowledge of relational databases, preferably Microsoft SQL Server
- Basic SQL skills and understanding of database concepts
- Familiarity with database backup, restore, and monitoring tools, and database security fundamentals
- Familiarity with Windows or Linux server environments
- Experience working with ticketing systems and IT service management processes
- Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills
- Exposure to Azure SQL or cloud-based database platforms
- Exposure to PostgreSQL or interest in supporting open-source databases
- Basic understanding of data integration or ETL concepts
- Experience working in Agile or DevOps environments
- Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field or equivalent hands-on experience.
Benefits
- Health, Pension, Retirement Savings, Training, and Legal Services benefits
- Cutting edge technology such as M365, Dynamics 365 CRM, Dynamics 365 F&O, Azure, AWS, SQL, Snowflake, QlikView
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Hard Skills & Tools
Microsoft SQL ServerAzure SQLSQLdatabase maintenanceperformance tuningETLdata integrationPostgreSQLcloud database platformsvulnerability remediation
Soft Skills
troubleshootingdocumentationcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solving
Certifications
Associate’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Information Technology