Database Systems Engineer & Administrator — On-Call

City-of-Richmond,-Va; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 99,000 - 121,000; Full time

Job summary

The City of Richmond Department of Information Technology is seeking a Technology Engineer/Administrator to perform database administration, troubleshooting, and optimization for production environments. The role requires SQL DB expertise, documentation, and afterhours on-call support as part of an essential team.

Incumbents will handle backups, performance tuning, and project configuration while contributing to design, reporting, and security initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field is required.
• Two years of journey-level systems and network engineering experience preferred.
• SQL Database Administration is essential.

Responsibilities

• Configuration and troubleshooting of production databases.
• Perform backups and recovery of databases.
• Monitor and tune database performance.
• Provide afterhours support per on-call rotation.
• Document incident resolutions and project changes.
• Support outages and ensure production uptime.

Skills

DB administration

Troubleshooting

Security review

Project documentation

Communication

Time management

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

SQL Workbench

SQL Studio

Datadog

Oracle DBA

Job description

The City of Richmond Department of Information Technology is seeking a Technology Engineer/Administrator to perform database administration, troubleshooting, and optimization for production environments. The role requires SQL DB expertise, documentation, and afterhours on-call support as part of an essential team.

Incumbents will handle backups, performance tuning, and project configuration while contributing to design, reporting, and security initiatives.