Senior Database Administrator (Finance)
Senior Database Administrator
Requisition ID 2025-16261
Posting Date 13 minutes ago (3/19/2025 5:49 PM)
Job Location(s) Indianapolis IN United States
Job Locations US-IN-Indianapolis
Position Type Full Time
Company Cook Inc - Bloomington
Category Information Technology
Overview
The Senior Database Administrator works collaborative with others to ensure that the database systems are operational and meeting the needs of the business. The role will have responsibility for performance optimization, security management, backup and recovery, high availability, and data migration for both Azure and on-premises SQL Servers. Candidate should possess extensive experience with Azure services, cloud computing, performance tuning, security best practices, backup and recovery strategies, scripting and automation, and demonstrate a mastery of TSQL.
Responsibilities
• Deploy, install, and configure Microsoft SQL Server database services both on-premises and in the cloud.
• Support, maintain, and administer Microsoft SQL Server databases.
• Work with application owners to ensure that Microsoft SQL Server database servers are up, available, secure and compliant.
• Develop and/or work with existing data models to support business needs.
• Work with application owners/developers to ensure that new applications are compatible with existing database infrastructure.
• Leverage cloud resources to optimize data processing and transformation.
• Assist other areas of Cook IT with cloud integrations, as needed.
• General to advanced ability to administer and configure Microsoft Windows servers and related services.
• Participate in the planning, life-cycle management, and development for database systems.
• Proactively upgrade and patch systems to stay current, resolve vulnerabilities, and enable new functionality.
• Monitor overall performance to proactively identify potential issues and tune or improve environment appropriately.
• Perform root cause analysis on failed components and implement corrective measures or process improvements.
• Resolve user issues through response to incidents or access requests.
• Create and maintain technical documentation on designs, engineering procedures, and implementation or operational work products.
• Work with others to establish and improve processes and procedures.
• Ensure integration with other systems and adherence to IT or business strategies.
• Provide emergency on-call support and perform occasional after-hours maintenance updates to systems.
• Define and document administrative and support best practices.
• Create and maintain documentation on procedures, technical specifications, and implementation work products.
• Estimate and manage life-cycle costs and product level roadmaps.
• Provides feedback, operational requirements, and shares areas of opportunities with engineers and architects.
• Serve as liaison with other teams, vendors, consultants, and customer groups.
• Demonstrate effective communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative and independent environment.
Qualifications
• Minimum four-year technical university degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum five years of prior relevant work experience for the position.
• Multiple industry technical certifications.
• Possess a general to advanced knowledge of subject matter.
• Performs work under occasional supervision.
• Handles wide range of technical issues and work constraints, referring some more complex issues to higher-level staff.
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