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ID #45324488
State New York
City Kingscounty
Job type Permanent
Salary USD $92,195 - $118,000 92195 - 118000
Source NYC Dept of Info Technology (DoITT)
Showed 2022-08-31
Date 2022-08-22
Deadline 2022-10-21
Category Et cetera
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Database Engineer

New York, Kingscounty 00000 Kingscounty USA

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The Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI/DoITT) oversees all Citywide technology, privacy, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and telecommunications to ensure the security of, and enhance, City operations and service delivery to New York City's residents, businesses, employees, and visitors. As the City's technology and innovation leader, OTI is responsible for operating, maintaining and securing IT infrastructure and systems that touch every aspect of City life from public safety to human services, from education to economic development crossing the full spectrum of governmental operations.Job Description:

  • Participate in developing, designing, configuring and documenting database architecture; work on resolving Incidents/Requests in a 24x7 /365 multiple-cluster production environment; perform patch management related duties; perform best practice database troubleshooting;
  • Fix data corruption; perform daily DBA tasks during SDLC, including reviewing logs, establishing and responding to automated monitoring, and performance tuning;
  • Configure and maintain different types of replications; participating in functional, performance and security testing;
  • Assist developers and end users in implementing best practices;
  • Ensure all databases are backed up in a way to ensure data integrity and meets the business’s Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO);
  • Assist in developing and documentation for the database environment in on-prem and in AWS, Azure Cloud;
  • Lead teams effort in adopting to cloud based database solutions and support thereafter; perform Root Cause analysis;
  • Configure and manage various database encryption technologies;
  • Carry out Disaster Recovery drills;
  • Provide technical assistance and troubleshooting support to developers;
  • Review database design specifications and application coding routines to ensure adherence to best practice methods fordatabase usage;
  • Ensure database performance is maintained at optimal levels and is able to support defined business requirements;
  • Create/maintain referential integrity relationships/constraints;
  • Provide problem diagnosis and resolution; schedule database backups;
  • Diagnose and resolve backup failures;
  • Configure, analyze application SQL code to do SQL Tuning for performance improvement opportunities;
  • Develop/maintain database operational procedures; Utilize Windows Administration skills as needed;
  • Develop/maintain Windows Powershell shell scripts;
  • Automation using ansible; work with the Database and other Infrastructure management teams to design, build, upgrade and support the necessary infrastructure to meet the needs of DoITT and supported agencies;
  • Perform special projects, and initiatives as assigned;
  • Position requires participation in rotating off hours, weekend, and contingency site coverage.
Preferred skills:
  • 5+ years of experience as a Microsoft SQL Server DBA:
  • Experience and expertise with Microsoft SQL database development, Microsoft SQL networking and Multi-site replication, mirroring, log shipping and data partition;
  • Experience in database security and auditing, SAN connected MS SQL;
  • Experience monitoring multiple databases;
  • Advanced knowledge of database performance management and tuning, database fault analysis and resolution effective Database Backup/Recovery strategy deployment;
  • Experience performing database migrations;
  • Experience analyzing current database performance and making projections for future growth (CPU usage as well as storage growth); experience in administrating a Windows 2012 or higher Clustered and Virtual environment;
  • Experience supporting a high-availability production Microsoft SQL;
  • Experience with Monitoring tools such as ScienceLogic, Service Management tool such as ServiceNow, backup tool such as CommVault, Experience with windows PowerShell scripting;
  • Oracle Database administration experience: 5+ years as an Oracle DBA;
  • Experience implementing/managing Oracle Databases in a RAC environment;
  • Experience Implementing Grid Infrastructure release 12 or higher on a Unix/Linux environment;
  • Experience implementing ASM cluster Filesystem with knowledge of how to maintain it;
  • Knowledge of Best Practices for adding a new disk to an ASM disk group;
  • Experience patching grid infrastructure software; experience implementing instance caging; familiar with Oracle database resource manager; familiar with huge pages on Linux;
  • Experience supporting a high-availability production database;
  • Experience in configuring/supporting Oracle Active Data Guard required, experience in a Solaris environment;
  • Experience in Veritas Cluster Server for Oracle;
  • Experience in database architecture and design; experience with Oracle Advanced Security Option;
  • Experience with Golden Gate for Oracle Replication;
  • Cloud experience: 2+ years as an Oracle DBA or SQL Server DBA; leverage outstanding knowledge of RDBMS Cloud solutions, object-oriented programming, database networking technology, and database management, tuning, configuration, and troubleshooting to optimize management of SQL or Oracle databases.

Qualification Requirements:
  • A Master’s degree in computer science or a related field and 1 year specialized database administration and development experience, including Database Administration, Data Modeling and Database Design, Testing; Technical Writing, and Version Control;
  • -or-
  • A BA/BS and 2 years specialized experience as described in “1” above.
  • -or-
  • A HS diploma and 2 years specialized experience as described in “1” above plus 4 years of information technology experience;
  • -or-4. Education and experience equivalent.

    To Apply

    Candidates must have a Permanent Certified IT Administrator (Database)Title

    -or-

    Can be reached on the current Certified IT Administrator (Database) List

    Interested applicants with other civil service titles who meet the preferred requirements should also submit a resume for consideration

    Please go to www.nyc.gov/jobs/search and search for Job ID #519460 SUBMISSION OF A RESUME IS NOT A GUARANTEE THAT YOU WILL RECEIVE AN INTERVIEWAPPOINTMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO OVERSIGHT APPROVAL

    NOTE: This position is also open to qualified persons with a disability who are eligible for the 55-a Program

    Please indicate at the top of your resume and cover letter that you would like to be considered for the position through the 55-a Program.

    COVID-19: As of August 2, 2021, all new hires must be vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, unless they have been granted a reasonable accommodation for religion or disability. If you are offered city employment, this requirement must be met by your date of hire, unless a reasonable accommodation for exemption is received and approved by the hiring agency.

    The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.

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