SQL & Enterprise Applications Administrator

St Vincent's Health Australia; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary packaging options

Discounted private health insurance

Employee Assistance Program for staff

Access to the Fitness Passport

Job summary

St Vincent's Health Australia seeks an experienced IT professional to oversee day-to-day administration, support and maintenance of enterprise applications and SQL Server environments. You will ensure availability, performance, security and data integrity while coordinating with vendors and stakeholders.

The role involves on-call duties, patching, backups, DR tests and contributing to automation, documentation and improving system resilience across our health IT services.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years' experience in enterprise application administration or SQL Server administration.
• Strong SQL Server skills: maintenance, backup/restore, performance, storage, security.
• Experience with high availability and disaster recovery (Always On, clustering, log shipping).
• Experience administering vendor-supported enterprise applications (configuration, upgrades, patching, user access).
• Experience managing releases, database scripts and schema changes across environments.
• Strong troubleshooting across app, integration, infrastructure and database issues (Windows Server, IIS, AD).
• Experience with scripting/automation (PowerShell, T-SQL, SQL Agent jobs).
• Experience with Azure SQL or cloud-hosted databases; DP-300 cert highly regarded.
• Healthcare/health IT experience with HL7 integrations advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Enterprise Applications and SQL Server environments for availability and reliability.
• Perform SQL Server administration: maintenance, backups, restore, storage management, performance tuning.
• Serve as primary technical contact for vendors; manage support cases, defects and licensing compliance.
• Manage development/test environments and refresh from production.
• Configure applications, manage user access and security reviews.
• Plan releases/patches and coordinate testing across environments.
• Provide Tier-3 support for complex issues; lead root-cause analysis and preventive actions.
• Monitor health of apps/interfaces/databases; identify risks and capacity constraints.
• Apply security, privacy and change controls; ensure de-identification of non-prod data.
• Contribute to automation, DR testing and business continuity; maintain runbooks.

Skills

SQL Server

PowerShell

T-SQL

Windows Server

IIS

Active Directory

Azure SQL

Tools

PowerShell

SQL Server

Azure SQL

Job description

St Vincent's Health Australia seeks an experienced IT professional to oversee day-to-day administration, support and maintenance of enterprise applications and SQL Server environments. You will ensure availability, performance, security and data integrity while coordinating with vendors and stakeholders.

The role involves on-call duties, patching, backups, DR tests and contributing to automation, documentation and improving system resilience across our health IT services.