IT Infrastructure Administrator II - Database Administrator

  • Full-time

Company Description

The City of San Antonio's mission is to deliver quality City services and commit to achieve San Antonio's vision of prosperity for our diverse, vibrant, and historic community.

Our approximately 12,000 employees are critical in the delivery of quality services to the residents of the City of San Antonio. The commitment our employees demonstrate to their jobs and to the advancement of the City's goals is the key to our success in mission accomplishment.

The City of San Antonio has identified four core values - Teamwork, Professionalism, Integrity, and Innovation - to efficiently and effectively inspire, motivate, lead, develop and empower employees in order to serve the public economically, ethically, equitably, and continuously improve and promote the high performance of government.

To ensure commitment to these values and to further integrate them with our organizational mission and vision, it is imperative that we seek these behaviors in the people we hire.

Job Description

Under general supervision, is responsible for ensuring that the performance and availability of the server and network infrastructure is maintained to the highest standard with maximum levels of productivity and efficiency. Supports multiple complex systems, applications, or databases. Analyzes, implements, monitors, and performs maintenance of physical networks, servers, operating systems, firewalls, internet connectivity, virtualization, business applications, and both information and data security. May exercise technical supervision. 
 
 Work Location
 100 W Houston (City Tower), San Antonio, Texas 78205
 
 Work Hours 
 7:45 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Monday- Friday

To submit your application, visit the City of San Antonio's website: at:  
https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/sanantoniotx/jobs/newprint/4750370

 

Essential Job Functions

  • Performs installation, configuration, maintenance, deployment, and release of databases across a platform, including integration testing of PC/server operating systems, related utilities, and hardware.
  • Programs, installs, troubleshoots, repairs, and maintains all aspects of the database environment, to include providing guidance on security and server updates or patches.
  • Manages current database environment by resolving any database shortages, alerting, and resolving any performance issues and ensuring that data is available to all applications across a platform.
  • Establishes enterprise database standards such as file system layout and database installation and creation, etc.
  • Identifies performance problems and malfunctions, addresses system and equipment problems; performs database backup and disaster recovery procedures and contingency plans and establishes requirements, methods, and procedures.
  • Maintains enterprise database documentation.
  • Participaties in security investigations as needed and and internal audits.
  • Capacity Planning: Monitors utilization for capacity planning. Forecasts utilization patterns and recommends modifications or upgrades.
  • Manages Oracle databases.
  • Adds new host machines to the network and administers network security across a platform.
  • Expands networks by setting up new hardware & software and connecting it to the existing assets across a platform.
  • Provides guidance to all initiatives and platforms.
  • Performs related duties and fulfills responsibilities as required. 

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
  • Four (4) years of information technology experience.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with Oracle databases.
  • Experience establishing enterprise database standards such as file system layout and database installation and creation, etc.
  • Experience maintaining enterprise database documentation.
  • Experience providing and evaluating database access tools and techniques to enable information access by business users.
  • Experience participating in security investigations as needed and internal audits.
  • Experience performing database backup and disaster recovery procedures and contingency plans and establishes requirements, methods, and procedures.
  • Experience in Database Design: Analyzes, tests, and implements physical database design for the storage aspects of the database objects (tables, views, procedures, etc.
  • Experience with Capacity Planning: Monitors utilization for capacity planning. Forecasts utilization patterns and recommends modifications or upgrades.

Additional Information

To submit your application, visit the City of San Antonio's website at:  https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/sanantoniotx/jobs/newprint/4750370