Database Administrator University of Vermont Medical Center South Burlington, VT Full-Time

The Database Administrator (DBA) is responsible for supporting departmental and enterprise databases to include monitoring, maintenance, optimization, installation, backups/restores, and reporting to ensure the availability and performance of our key applications. The DBA will ensure security and protection of database assets and serve as a key resource on the technical team requiring a working knowledge of multiple software systems in use at the UVM Health Network and the interrelationships among those systems.  This is a “hands-on” position requiring solid technical skills, as well as excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Responsibilities:

• Manage SQL Server databases through multiple product lifecycle environments.
• Configure and maintain database servers and processes, including monitoring of system health and performance.
• Refine and automate processes, track issues, and document changes.
• Assist analysts with complex tuning and schema refinement.
• Provide 24x7 support for critical production systems.
• Perform scheduled maintenance after hours as required.

Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or other technical field or equivalent experience.

Experience:

• 3 or more years’ experience with Microsoft SQL Server in a 24/7 production environment.
• Hands-on experience driving improvements in performance via changes in database schema, query tuning, maintenance plans, and configuration.
• Experience performing disaster recovery exercises for critical databases and maintaining database failover mechanisms (mirroring, log-shipping, clustering, etc.).
• Strong SQL/T-SQL skills with hands-on experience in SQL performance tuning and optimization.
• Experience with SSRS reporting.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Idera SQLdm, LogicMonitor, and Splunk a plus.
• Coding experience with PowerShell is a strong positive.

The University of Vermont Medical Center is committed to being a national model for the delivery of high quality academic health care for a rural region.

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