Database Administrator (Oracle & SQL Server)

Company Our client is an established IT services provider headquartered on Long Island, in business for more than 40 years. They deliver infrastructure, managed services, and software solutions to enterprise customers across the New York metropolitan area, and they run their own in-house software development team. You would join as a full-time employee of our client.

Compensation

Base salary of $125,000 - $145,000 per year, depending on experience. Full-time W-2 employment with medical, dental, and 401(k) benefits. Job Location Hybrid. You will be on site 2-3 days a week in Melville, New York, and work remotely the rest of the week. Role Summary You will be the database administrator our client relies on for two groups: a long-standing enterprise customer and their own software development team. At the start, most of your time goes to the customer. You will own the health of their Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server environments, covering performance, backups, patching, security, and recovery. You will work from the customer's Melville site part of the week, so you will be the face of our client's database practice there. Over time the role moves to a 50/50 split. Half your week stays with the customer environment. The other half goes to our client's internal software development team, where you will design schemas, review queries, and support development and test databases. So you get the steadiness of a production enterprise environment and the variety of working with developers who are building new products.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, and troubleshoot Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases across production, test, and development environments.
• Run backup, recovery, patching, and upgrades, and validate backups regularly with Veritas NetBackup.
• Monitor performance, availability, and capacity with SolarWinds, and tune queries and indexes when things slow down.
• Support high availability and disaster recovery, including Oracle Data Guard and SQL Server Always On where deployed.
• Manage database security, user access, and compliance requirements.
• Work with the internal software development team on schema design, query review, and database changes, and with application, infrastructure, and cloud teams to keep business applications running.

Qualifications

• 5+ years administering both Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases in a production environment.
• Strong command of backup and recovery, performance tuning, and database security.
• Hands-on SQL and troubleshooting skills, plus working knowledge of Windows and Linux servers.
• Comfort working on site with a customer and explaining technical issues to people outside of IT.
• Experience with Veritas NetBackup, SolarWinds, and Amazon Web Services Relational Database Service (AWS RDS) is a strong plus.
• Scripting in PowerShell, T-SQL, or shell, experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Sybase, and Oracle or Microsoft database certifications are a plus.

Why apply for this position?

• Base salary of $125,000 to $145,000 depending on experience.
• Two kinds of work in one job: a production enterprise environment and an in-house development team.
• Hybrid schedule with 2-3 days on site in Melville.
• A stable, privately held employer with more than 40 years in business.

EEO Statement Our client is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.