Manager of Database Administration

For more than 25 years, Centroid has been a leader in technology consulting and managed services serving the large enterprise market. We are in the unique position to offer a broad range of services that reflect both our array of industry experience and our past performance solving complex business challenges. Our core services include technology consulting services, database and infrastructure managed services, and Cloud infrastructure solutions. Centroid values employees and clients alike. Our goal is to provide superior service to our clients while providing our employees with continued growth and success.

Job Title: IT Manager, Database Administration

Job Type: Full time

Location: 75% onsite in Pasadena, CA  (Must be local to the area to be considered)

Responsibilities/Duties:

· As a Manager, Database Administration, you will implement and maintain overall database platforms, supporting the database environment of the client’s application platform, and other database strategies and standards for the organization.

· Oversee the daily workflow of the database administration team.

· Responsible to ensure database operations plans, policies, procedures, and transition/migration plans are consistent with IT departmental goals as well as alignment to overall company goals and objectives.

· Collaborate with cross-functional team leads, including Applications and Infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders to ensure that the database platforms meet the organization’s requirements and can support its goals.

· Ensures project and department milestones and goals are met on time and within budget.

· Collaborate with 3rd-party Managed Services Provider to develop, maintain, and administer database operational and administrative procedures, to meet or exceed Service Level Agreements (SLA).

· Provide expert level DBA knowledge, best practices, and oversight for both Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server teams.

· Assist with defining and documenting best practices, methodologies, and tools to enable consistent, high quality repeatable delivery of services.

· Provide engineering and technical expertise and oversight on all issues, performance work requests, system improvement efforts, and operations and maintenance activities.

· Maintain knowledge of trends, developments, and best practices in DBMS and related technology.

· Participate in regular database capacity planning related to database growth and system utilization, trend analysis and predicting future database resource requirements.

· Evaluate current and projected database performance and recommend changes and enhancements as required.

Required Skills:

· Highly experienced and proficient managing Relational Database platforms including Oracle and MS-SQL Server.

· Strong understanding of Oracle and SQL Server RDBMS architectures.

· Hands on experience with implementation, upgrade, and tuning of large database environments.

· Expert knowledge of HA and DR concepts and options, including database clustering and database replication strategies.

· Expert knowledge in database backup and recovery concepts.

· Knowledge of database monitoring solutions including Oracle Enterprise Manager and Quest Spotlight