Database Administrator I

The Database Administrator I (DBA I) is responsible for supporting the mission critical production, test, and development applications and environments.


The Database Administrator I will be responsible for multiple aspects of database management and application support for central computing. Responsibilities include software installation, patch and upgrade administration, application setup and configuration, database and application server support, vendor technical support, technology life cycle management, backup and recovery, troubleshooting, and server security, audit, and operations monitoring.


The DBA I will report to the Associate Director of Administrative Applications and will also collaborate with the Database Administration Team in planning efforts and the development of standards, project plans, policies, and procedures. Duties are performed on a variety of operating systems with a primary focus on RHEL and Windows. The nature of this position will require the individual to occasionally work evenings and weekends.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provides oversight on all operating budgets totaling over $500,000. Reviews quarterly budgets with all operating units to ensure operating activity is accurate, appropriate, and in line with the annual budget plan. Manages the summer budget. Monitors and manages all non-labor accounts and discretionary funds; including resource funds, overhead, endowments, and scholarship accounts. Manages joint affiliation payments/deposits. Manages scholarship funds. Reviews and approves Unimarket purchases. Manages computer purchases, including budgeting and purchasing.
• Conducts fundamental Oracle Database Administration tasks, including database creation and maintenance, tuning, backup and recovery, program migrations, and security implementation and audit. Supports and enforces security procedures and best practices.
• Identifies and documents available patches and upgrades for all supported products, including the campus ERP platform. Monitors vendor product communication channels and product roadmaps to identify new technologies, release dates, requirements, and support timelines.
• Displays basic familiarity with application server technology such as Apache Tomcat. Able to stop and start critical processes and deploy applications and patches to support the computing environment.
• Works with the Database Administration Team to plan and implement upgrades and patches in support of the Ellucian ERP and Oracle environments, as well as other team supported assets. Observes and participates as appropriate in all DBA team planning efforts and to the development of standards, project plans, policies, and procedures.
• Enters service requests with Oracle, Ellucian, and other vendors and responds to vendor technical support feedback with the support of other DBA team members.
• Performs administrative tasks / other duties as assigned.

Work Experience:

• Database Administration in Oracle or SQL Server, or Oracle-based ERP Administration
• Monitoring backup jobs and system alerts and issue remediation
• Enterprise application and database management
• Project management functions as a project-team member
• Installation, configuration, upgrades, patches of Oracle databases and Banner applications
• Understanding of application server technology such as Oracle WebLogic, Fusion Middleware, or Apache Tomcat.

Education: The successful candidate will have earned a Bachelor's degree in computer Science or a related field plus at least 2 years of experience in any combination of the following: SQL/Shell programming, Database Administration (Oracle, SQL Server). Additional relevant experience can be substituted for education.