Database Systems Engineer & On-Call Administrator

City-of-Richmond,-Va; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 93,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

The City of Richmond Department of Information Technology is seeking a Technology Engineer/Administrator to perform skilled assessments, troubleshooting, and administration of user issues, with a focus on SQL databases. Incumbents handle backups, performance tuning, and documentation, and participate in on-call rotations and project reviews.

Requirements include a Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field and two years of journey-level experience; SQL Database Administration is

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• Two years of journey-level professional systems and network engineering experience.
• SQL Database Administration (essential).
• UNIX Administration (desired).
• Knowledge of ITIL Change Management.

Responsibilities

• Configuration and troubleshooting of production databases.
• Performance reviews and recommendations for database improvements.
• Backups and recovery of databases.
• Researching and resolving performance issues.
• Documentation and updating project documentation and trouble tickets.
• Providing afterhours support with on-call rotation.
• Participating in project reviews, design, and configuration.
• Developing and analyzing reporting on performance, backups, and security.
• Providing technical support for daily issues or outages.
• Developing processes for production database strategies.
• Providing updates and notifications during outages.
• Maintaining ITIL change management documentation.
• Ensuring production uptime and performance.
• Researching improvements for future optimization.

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

SQL Workbench

SQL Studio

Datadog

Job description

The City of Richmond Department of Information Technology is seeking a Technology Engineer/Administrator to perform skilled assessments, troubleshooting, and administration of user issues, with a focus on SQL databases. Incumbents handle backups, performance tuning, and documentation, and participate in on-call rotations and project reviews.

Requirements include a Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field and two years of journey-level experience; SQL Database Administration is