Hello!
The Advisory Board Company is seeking a Database Administrator with PostgreSQL experience to join our team in Austin, TX. Full details can be found at the link below, and interested
candidates can contact Wyn Gregory at gregoryw(at)advisory(dot)com.
http://advisorycareers.force.com/openings/apex/ts2__JobDetails?jobId=a0KF000000EkwtoMAB
As a member of the Enterprise Technologies, Enterprise Data Management team, the DBA will be responsible for the implementation, configuration,
maintenance, and performance of critical RDBMS systems, to ensure the availability and consistent performance of our corporate applications. This is a “hands-on” position requiring solid technical skills, along with troubleshooting and communications skills.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Manage multiple database technologies through several product lifecycle environments, from development to mission-critical production systems, for applications with data warehouse and OLTP components
- Configure and maintain database servers and processes, including monitoring of system health and performance, to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security
- Independently analyze, solve, and correct issues in real time, providing problem resolution end-to-end
- Provide 24x7 support for critical production systems on an on-call rotation basis
- Perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities after hours
- Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes
- Apply data modeling techniques to ensure development and implementation support efforts meet integration and performance expectations
- Assist developers with complex query tuning, schema refinement and index management
- Assist in development of project plans and task lists
- Share domain and technical expertise, providing technical mentorship and cross-training to peers
Must Haves:
- Minimum 5 years of SQL Server experience
- Minimum 2 years of PostgreSQL experience
- Experience operating a large scale production database environment
- Technical and troubleshooting skills with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server)
- Experience in independently performing root cause analysis and coming up with recommendations
- Experience in performance tuning and query optimization
- Experience with backups, restores, recovery
- Experience with database security concepts, including access, auditing, and encryption.
- Knowledge and experience in Open Source solutions to include vetting patches, applying patches to the database and the open source tools, libraries, and daemons.
- Knowledge of Database High Availability and Disaster Recovery
- Experience with system monitoring tools
Even Better:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
- SQL Development experience with ability to write and troubleshoot SQL code
- Experience in healthcare or a HIPAA compliant environment including data de-identification
- Database operations experience in an agile development environment
- Experience with one or more programming languages, such as ASP .net, Java
- Ability to troubleshoot problems that arise
- Ability to organize and plan work independently
- Ability to work in a rapidly changing environment
- Ability to multi-task between different activities and teams
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and written
About The Advisory Board Company:
Crimson is a software development organization based in Austin,
TX focused on helping health care professionals better serve patients through actionable insights that improve care delivery. Currently, one-third of all U.S. inpatient hospital admissions flow through our technology.
We have offices in Chicago, D.C., San Francisco, and Chennai. We're a division of The Advisory Board Company, we're growing fast, and we're on a mission.
The Advisory Board Company (NASDAQ: ABCO) is a global technology, research and consulting firm
partnering with 180,000 leaders in 4,500+ organizations across health care and higher education. We combine the expertise of our 3,000+ employees around the world to find solutions to the most pressing challenges in health care. Our performance technology
products offer user-friendly, Web-enabled dashboard platforms with tremendous analytic capabilities that generate more than $500 million in realized value annually for our members. These solutions focus on strategically important areas, including physician
alignment, revenue cycle, accountable care, and surgical profitability. We thrive on innovation and the knowledge that we are creating real change in an industry that matters to everyone.
The Advisory Board Company is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability.
Wyndham Gregory
Technical Recruiter, Career Management
The Advisory Board Company
512-681-2349 direct | 512-609-1150 fax
gregoryw@xxxxxxxxxxxx |
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