Senior Database Administrator

Founded in 1863, Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic university located six miles from downtown Boston with an enrollment of 9,654 full-time undergraduates and 5,072 graduate and professional students. Ranked 37 among national universities, Boston College has 923 full-time and 1,336 FTE faculty, 2,822 non-faculty employees, an operating budget of $1.4 billion, and an endowment in excess of $3.9 billion.

We are looking for a passionate Senior Database Administrator (DBA) to join our dynamic team and collaborate with various IT groups to deliver enterprise database solutions. The role involves understanding business needs, developing recommendations, implementing solutions, and providing training when appropriate.

The DBA will be responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance, and optimization of our database systems. The role requires hands-on expertise in database management, performance tuning, backup/recovery strategies, and troubleshooting complex database issues. The ideal candidate will also mentor junior DBAs and contribute to strategic database initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Administer, monitor and maintain enterprise relational database systems (eg. Oracle, SQL server, Postgres) across development, QA and production environments.
• Design and implement high-availability (HA) and disaster-recovery (DR) solutions for mission critical applications.
• Perform database performance tuning and optimization, including query tuning and memory management.
• Enhance database security by implementing row-level security, data encryption, data redaction and data masking.
• Automate database infrastructure administration tasks using Ansible.
• Manage source control and database deployment pipelines using CI/CD tools such as Git, Jenkins and Bamboo.
• Define and document database best practices and standards.
• Support production systems during on-call rotations, resolve issues quickly, and help identify and prevent future problems.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP is a strong plus.

Title and salary commensurate with relevant experience based on the following titles and full-time equivalent hiring ranges:

• Senior Administrator: $107,350 - $134,200; 5+ years related professional experience
• Administrator: $92,550 - $115,700; 3-5 years related professional experience
• Associate Administrator: $76,050 - $95,050; 1-3 years experience

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or relevant discipline.
• Database Management: Oracle, SQL Server, Oracle RAC, Oracle Data Guard, MS SQL Server Always On Availability Groups (AG).
• Monitoring & Performance Tuning: Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), SQL Sentry.
• Database Security: Delphix Data Masking, Oracle Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), Oracle Data Redaction.
• Scripting & Automation: Ansible, Python.

**This position offers a hybrid work schedule at the discretion of management (NOT a fully remote option).