Impactful Enterprise Apps & 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

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.