Applications and SQL administrator

svha; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary packaging options

Discounted private health insurance

Job summary

St Vincent's Health Australia in Melbourne seeks an experienced IT professional to administer and maintain Enterprise Applications and SQL Server environments, ensuring availability, security and data integrity.

The role partners with vendors and internal teams, provides tier-3 support, oversees upgrades and DR planning, and contributes to documentation and compliance with privacy and change controls. Initial focus on patient data systems with governance and on-call duties.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years' experience in enterprise application administration or SQL Server administration.
• Strong SQL Server skills including maintenance, backup/restore, performance troubleshooting, storage management and security.
• Experience with high availability and DR solutions (Always On, failover clustering, log shipping).
• Experience administering vendor-supported enterprise applications and managing releases/patches.
• Experience with scripting/automation (PowerShell, T-SQL, SQL Agent).
• Understanding IT service management (incident, problem, change) and strong documentation.
• Healthcare/health IT exposure is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Enterprise Applications and SQL Server environments for availability and reliability.
• Perform SQL Server maintenance, backups, storage, performance tuning and high-availability monitoring.
• Act as primary technical contact for vendors; manage support cases and licensing compliance.
• Manage development/test environments, deployments, and user access/security reviews.
• Plan/execute vendor releases, patches, scripts; coordinate testing and UAT.
• Provide tier-3 support for complex app, integration and DB issues; lead root-cause analysis.
• Monitor health of applications, interfaces and databases; identify risks and capacity constraints.
• Apply security, privacy and change controls; ensure protection of patient data.
• Contribute to automation, DR testing and business continuity planning.
• Maintain technical documentation and runbooks; share knowledge with support staff.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, security teams; participate in on-call windows.
• Work across teams to promote high-performance, values-based culture.
• Support audits and records retention; report writing (SSRS/Power BI).

Skills

SQL Server administration

Windows Server

IIS

Active Directory

PowerShell

T-SQL

Database security

Disaster recovery

Vendor management

Documentation

Azure SQL

SQL Server Agent

Tools

Azure SQL

SQL Server Agent

IIS Manager

Job description

Better and fairer care. Always.

St Vincent's has been a leader in Australia's health and aged care landscape for more than 165 years. Since our founders, the Sisters of Charity, opened our first hospital in 1857, our services and nearly 30,000 people have been behind some of Australia's most important medical breakthroughs. We are a microcosm of Australia's health and aged care system and are uniquely positioned to lead and respond to our rapidly changing environment.

We are looking for a special kind of person - a St Vincent's kind of person. Someone who puts excellence, compassion, connection and caring for other people at the heart of everything they do.

About the role

Responsible for the day-to-day administration, support and maintenance of business applications and SQL database environments. This includes application support, system maintenance, updates and patching, reporting, troubleshooting, and database administration activities. The role works closely with application vendors, infrastructure teams and business stakeholders to maintain system availability, performance, security and data integrity, while supporting changes, upgrades and ongoing operational requirements.

Key responsibilities of the role

• Administer and maintain Enterprise Applications and its SQL Server environments, ensuring availability, stability and reliable day-to-day operations across the organization.
• Perform SQL Server administration, including database maintenance, backup and recovery, storage management, performance optimisation and high-availability monitoring.
• Act as the primary technical contact for the application vendor, managing support cases, defects, enhancement requests and SQL Server licensing compliance
• Manage development and test environments, including refreshes from production, Configure the application to meet business needs, and manage user access, roles and security profiles, including periodic access reviews.
• Plan and deliver vendor releases, upgrades, patching, database scripts and schema changes across development, test and production, coordinating testing and user acceptance with business stakeholders.
• Provide tier-3 support for complex application, integration and database issues, leading root cause analysis and preventative actions for major incidents.
• Monitor application, interface and database health, proactively identifying performance issues, capacity constraints and risks before they affect critical services.
• Apply security, privacy and change management controls, including least-privilege access, auditing, encryption and de-identification of non-production data, so patient information is protected at every step.
• Contribute to automation, disaster recovery testing and business continuity planning to improve operational efficiency and system resilience.
• Maintain accurate technical documentation, configurations and operational runbooks, and share knowledge with service desk and application support staff.
• Work with infrastructure, cloud, security, integration teams and vendors to resolve escalated issues, and participate in an on-call roster and after-hours change windows as required.
• Work across multidisciplinary teams and business areas, contributing to a high-performance, values-based culture.
• Support internal and external audits and records retention requirements, Report writing experience (e.g. SSRS or Power BI)

Things that work for us

• Minimum 3 years' experience in enterprise application administration or SQL Server administration, with strong hands-on SQL Server experience essential.
• Strong SQL Server skills, including database maintenance, backup and restore, performance troubleshooting, storage management and database security.
• Experience with SQL Server high availability and disaster recovery, such as Always On Availability Groups, failover clustering or log shipping.
• Experience administering vendor-supported enterprise applications, including configuration, upgrades, patching, user access and ongoing maintenance.
• Experience managing releases, database scripts and schema changes across development, test and production environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills across application, integration, infrastructure and database issues, with working knowledge of Windows Server, IIS and Active Directory.
• Understanding of IT service management, including incident, problem and change management, with strong documentation and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience with scripting and automation, such as PowerShell, T-SQL or SQL Agent jobs, would be highly regarded.
• Experience with Azure SQL or cloud-hosted databases, and Microsoft certification such as DP-300, would be highly regarded.
• Experience in healthcare or health IT, with exposure to clinical systems, healthcare data or HL7 integrations, would be advantageous.

Things that work for you

• Ability to visibly see your impact on the business and its service
• Competitive salary packaging options
• Discounted private