Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ascension is a leading nonprofit Catholic health system with a culture and associate experience grounded in service, growth, care and connection. They are seeking a Senior Database Administrator to architect and optimize database ecosystems, lead high-availability and cross-system integration, and manage database security and governance.
Responsibilities
- Architect & Optimize Database Ecosystems: Design, standardize, and implement enterprise-grade database configurations, performance tuning, robust backup/recovery strategies, and proactive alert/monitoring frameworks across multi-platform environments
- Lead High-Availability & Cross-System Integration: Engineer and govern scalable data and application architectures integrating multiple complex systems, leveraging MSSQL AlwaysOn, Oracle RAC, and Data Guard to ensure maximum uptime and minimal latency
- Drive Design, Modeling, & Gap Analysis: Facilitate high-level technical design sessions and execute end-to-end ecosystem gap analyses with cross-functional teams and vendors, translating complex business needs into relational/dimensional data models
- Harden Database Security & Governance: Establish and manage stringent database access governance frameworks and coordinate multi-team vulnerability remediation, providing deep technical guidance on feasibility and risk mitigation
- Direct Multi-Platform Database Administration: Oversee the lifecycle and full-stack administration of diverse database technologies—including MSSQL (SSAS, SSIS, SSRS), Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB—while optimizing highly complex SQL queries
Skills
- High School diploma equivalency with 2 years of cumulative experience OR Associate's degree/Bachelor's degree OR 4 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required
- Advanced proficiency in networking topology and infrastructure design, including deep familiarity with TCP/IP protocols, DNS, and secure load balancing
- Proven track record of managing competing priorities across concurrent enterprise-scale migration or deployment projects within strict timelines
- Experience implementing automated scripting (e.g., PowerShell, Python, or Bash) for database maintenance, orchestration, and continuous monitoring
- Architect & Optimize Database Ecosystems: Design, standardize, and implement enterprise-grade database configurations, performance tuning, robust backup/recovery strategies, and proactive alert/monitoring frameworks across multi-platform environments
- Lead High-Availability & Cross-System Integration: Engineer and govern scalable data and application architectures integrating multiple complex systems, leveraging MSSQL AlwaysOn, Oracle RAC, and Data Guard to ensure maximum uptime and minimal latency
- Drive Design, Modeling, & Gap Analysis: Facilitate high-level technical design sessions and execute end-to-end ecosystem gap analyses with cross-functional teams and vendors, translating complex business needs into relational/dimensional data models
- Harden Database Security & Governance: Establish and manage stringent database access governance frameworks and coordinate multi-team vulnerability remediation, providing deep technical guidance on feasibility and risk mitigation
- Direct Multi-Platform Database Administration: Oversee the lifecycle and full-stack administration of diverse database technologies—including MSSQL (SSAS, SSIS, SSRS), Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB—while optimizing highly complex SQL queries
Benefits
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Various health insurance options & wellness plans
- Retirement benefits including employer match plans
- Long-term & short-term disability
- Employee assistance programs (EAP)
- Parental leave & adoption assistance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Ways to give back to your community
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