WebMD ยท 1 day ago
Senior Database Administrator
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expWebMD Health Services is part of the WebMD family, dedicated to empowering organizations and their populations to improve well-being through personalized partnerships. The Senior Database Administrator will manage enterprise-level production database instances, ensuring high levels of data availability and performance while supporting day-to-day operations and automating administrative processes.
Health CareInformation ServicesInternetMental HealthOnline PortalsPublishing
Hiring Manager
Krista Frias
Responsibilities
Support day-to-day operations and management of over 50 enterprise-level production database instances in development, testing, staging and 24/7/365 production environments
Manage the backup and recovery program including performing manual as well as scheduled/automated backups and restores of production and non-production databases
Conduct routine index and statistics maintenance
Ensure high levels of data availability and database performance
Troubleshoot and remediate incidents, sharing in on-call rotations
Install, configure, update and migrate SQL Server Instances, both standalone and as part of an AG
Monitor, tune and optimize performance at the server, instance, database and object level including execution plan analysis and optimization
Monitor, tune and optimize storage
Continuously improve processes and procedures
Automate administrative processes
Qualification
Required
Excel at working both independently and collaboratively
Be highly organized and comfortable navigating complex environments and projects
Readily take ownership and drive to make a positive impact
Have a minimum 8 years of database administration experience including MSSQL 2017, 2019 and 2022
Be experienced in database backup and other maintenance tasks
Be experienced in enterprise SQL monitoring tools
Be experienced in query performance tuning
Be experienced in replicating data to meet HA/DR objectives, in particular with AlwaysOn Availability Group Clustering
Have a Bachelor's degree in computer science, MIS, software engineering, similar degree, or comparable work experience
Demonstrate strong English written and spoken communication
Create effective technical documentation and operating procedures related to database administration
Possess deep SQL and T-SQL knowledge
Be fluent in database security risks and mitigations
Have successfully planned and lead projects
Holistic view of Identity Access Management (Authentication and Authorization Data, Endpoint Security, Network Security, Policy Engine)
Proficient working with User Management and Authentication tools such as Auth0, Okta, Firebase, etc. (Auth0 preferred)
Strong hands-on experience with industry standard SSO technologies and protocols
Advanced experience utilizing ticket management system
Willingness to travel up to 20% of the time
Preferred
Have configured and managed Merge Replication
Have administered Azure Managed Instances and AzureDB
Be able to create and maintain PowerShell automation
Company
WebMD
WebMD is a healthcare center that offers mental health, pain management, and breast cancer services.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
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Dominique Jean
Chief Technology Officer
Ben Mansfield
Vice President Client Services & Operations
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