Database Administrator

• Administer and support IDMS databases in IBM z/OS environments.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize IDMS database performance.
• Maintain development, testing, staging, and production database environments.
• Enable and tune IDMS features to maximize system performance.
• Analyze database performance metrics and implement optimization strategies.
• Support database deployment, upgrades, and operational procedures.
• Design and implement database security and access controls.
• Provide technical guidance on database design, modeling, and enhancements.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and support teams.
• Coordinate with vendors and external stakeholders when required.
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call support rotation.
• Prepare and maintain technical documentation and operational procedures.

IDMS Database Administrator

• Administer, maintain, and support enterprise Oracle database environments.
• Install, configure, patch, upgrade, and optimize Oracle 19c databases.
• Manage Oracle ASM (Automatic Storage Management) environments.
• Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Oracle Data Guard standby databases.
• Administer Oracle Grid Control 13c environments and perform upgrades and patching.
• Monitor database performance, availability, capacity, and security.
• Perform backup, recovery, disaster recovery planning, and failover testing.
• Support Oracle deployments on Microsoft Windows Server 2022 and newer platforms.
• Troubleshoot database issues and implement performance tuning solutions.
• Collaborate with application development and infrastructure teams on database requirements.
• Develop database standards, procedures, and operational documentation.
• Support production deployments, maintenance activities, and system upgrades.
• Ensure compliance with organizational security and operational policies.

Oracle Database Administrator – Contract

• Support enterprise-level reporting, analytics, and data management activities
• Design, build, maintain, and optimize reports and dashboards using SQL, MySQL, and Power BI
• Work with large structured and unstructured datasets
• Perform trend analysis, performance analysis, and predictive forecasting
• Provide guidance to business users on metrics, reporting structures, and data interpretation

SQL Database Administrator – Contract

• As the Platform Database Administrator (DBA) for Aurora, serve as the architectural and operational anchor for high-scale database environments.
• Bridge the gap between technical data layers and production feature engineering.
• Take full ownership of database performance tuning, optimization strategies, and system reliability across core software suites.
• Sustain consistent system performance and reliability across 400+ database schemas, managing comprehensive schema migrations and tracking client-specific data growth metrics.
• Supervise AWS Aurora-specific environments, orchestrating cluster endpoint routing configurations, managing failover behaviors, executing parameter tuning, and troubleshooting data warehouse / read replica lags.
• Apply deep knowledge of InnoDB core internals to manage lock behaviors, resolve complex lock contentions, adjust buffer pool parameters, and systematically reduce purge lags across write-heavy database clusters.
• Diagnose and optimize heavy database pipelines utilizing INSERT...SELECT queries and computed-table patterns.
• Analyze Aurora instance utilization models against pricing factors to right-size compute resources and minimize I/O waste stemming from unoptimized queries.

Platform Database Administrator, Aurora/MySQL

• Assist in managing AWS RDS instances by monitoring database health, identifying performance issues, and participating in root-cause investigations
• Participate in a rotating on-call schedule to ensure 24/7 database availability and rapid response to production incidents across our global infrastructure
• Execute quarterly patching, monthly index reviews, and backup integrity testing within a live production environment
• Advance your T-SQL knowledge by participating in code reviews and assisting Developer and TechOps teams with query optimization and execution
• Utilize Python, PowerShell, and other scripting languages to build or maintain automation tools (e.g., AWS Lambdas, GitHub Action workflows, etc.)
• Manage user permissions, SOPs, and disaster recovery runbooks while helping ensure regulatory framework compliance (including HIPAA, HITRUST, and SOC2) across all database systems

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