Database Administrator

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, IT, or a comparable technical field
• 3-5 years of professional experience administering production relational database environments
• Strong Microsoft SQL Server administration experience
• Hands-on production experience with PostgreSQL and MySQL
• Experience administering Azure SQL or other cloud-hosted relational database platforms
• Strong database performance tuning experience, including indexing, execution plans, statistics, and query optimization
• Experience with database backup, restoration, and disaster recovery
• Knowledge of high-availability and replication technologies across SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL
• Experience managing database security, authentication, roles, permissions, and access
• Strong T-SQL skills with working knowledge of PostgreSQL and MySQL SQL dialects and administrative tools
• Experience with database monitoring, alerting, and proactive maintenance
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

• Microsoft, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or cloud database certifications
• PowerShell or similar scripting/automation experience
• Experience with managed PostgreSQL or MySQL services in Azure or another cloud platform
• Data warehouse, ETL, or data integration experience
• Git/source control experience
• GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD experience for database deployments
• Azure SQL Auditing experience

Job Description

Insight Global is seeking a Database Administrator for Galen College of Nursing. This individual will be responsible for supporting and maintaining a diverse database environment across Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Azure SQL. The DBA will ensure Galen’s database environments remain secure, available, reliable, and performing efficiently while supporting both on-premise and cloud-based platforms. Day-to-day responsibilities will include monitoring database health and performance, troubleshooting performance issues, analyzing execution plans, optimizing queries and indexes, maintaining database backups, and supporting restoration and disaster-recovery procedures. This individual will also manage database security and permissions, support high-availability and replication technologies, perform patches and upgrades, and help automate routine database administration tasks through scripting and other tools. The DBA will partner closely with Galen’s application, data engineering, analytics, infrastructure, and security teams on database design, integrations, production releases, and overall database reliability. The ideal candidate is a hands-on DBA who is comfortable working across multiple database technologies and can troubleshoot issues independently while communicating effectively with both technical teams and business stakeholders.