Database Administrator - Senior - Call Back

Job Req ID: 833801

Position Number: 00098404

Employment Type: Full Time

Shift: Day

Shift Details: 1st shift / 8am - 5pm

Standard Hours: 40.00

Department Name: IAS Database Technologies

Location: Corporate Operations

Location Details: 

Our mission is to improve health, elevate hope and advance healing - for all. The name Atrium Health allows us to grow beyond our current walls and geographical borders to impact as many lives as possible and deliver solutions that help communities thrive. For more information, please visit atriumhealth.org/about-us.

 

 

Job Summary
Designs, implements, and maintains complex databases, with respect to access methods, access time, device allocation, validation checks, organization, protection and security, documentation, and statistical methods. Includes maintenance of database dictionaries, overall monitoring of standards and procedures and integration of systems through database design. Ability to work at the highest level of all phases of database management.

Essential Functions

• Maintains within established levels, the technical performance of the databases and software supporting the administrative, financial, and other departmental computer applications of CHS.
• Installs and configures databases for optimal use. Works with system administration team to optimize server for use with the database(s). Modifies the configuration to accommodate changing user and data requirements. Recommends, plans, and implements upgrades to newer versions of the database software.
• Responsible for database storage management.
• Develops and documents data models, and manages database security.
• Manages database interfacing, replication, and distribution. Understands the methods available in the database software to export, import, distribute and replicate data. Works with personnel to ensure that interfaces have a minimal impact on interactive database usage.
• Manages data encryption, user and group management, views, and security modes available for the databases used.
• Manages database maintenance procedures such as scheduling tasks on the server, developing and testing backup strategies, backing up all databases and transaction logs regularly, restoring databases and transaction logs when necessary, using monitoring techniques to assess the performance of the database, making adjustments to system parameters when necessary to improve performance, assessing tradeoffs and implementing fault tolerant solutions where appropriate, and developing strategies for recovering data when failures occur.

Physical Requirements
Work is subject to high-level visibility through exposure to CHS administration. Requires a high degree of proficiency in verbal and written communications. Must be on call 24/7 (beeper) to respond to all database production needs. Must work in an air-conditioned environment. Must be able to lift up to 35 lbs.

Education, Experience and Certifications
High School Diploma or GED required; Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Business Administration or related field preferred. 3 years experience installing and supporting sophisticated information systems in a health care environment utilizing on-line/database techniques, Unix AIX operating systems required.

 

At Atrium Health, our patients, communities and teammates are at the center of everything we do. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion allows us to deliver care that is superior in quality and compassion across our network of more than 900 care locations.

 

As a leading, innovative health system, we promote an environment where differences are valued and integrated into our workforce. Our culture of inclusion and cultural competence allows us to achieve our goals and deliver the best possible experience to patients and the communities we serve.

 

Posting Notes: Not Applicable

Atrium Health is an EOE/AA Employer