Distributed Database Administrator II

Active Network LLC; Corpus Christi (TX); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & benefits

Career growth opportunities

Access to learning & development

Inclusive team environment

Community & charity initiatives

Global employee assistance program

Global recognition platform

Job summary

Global Payments is seeking a Distributed Database Administrator II to help manage databases across multiple platforms. You will assist with testing, migration to production, user access, backups, and disaster recovery while supporting performance and data integrity.

Ideal candidates bring a Bachelor's degree or equivalent and 2+ years of Microsoft SQL experience in production environments; Linux experience is a plus. Join a global payments leader delivering secure solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Typically 2+ years of Microsoft SQL experience in a production environment.
• Linux experience and IT-related degree are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Assist more experienced DBAs with testing database software, utilities and patches in a test environment.
• Assist in migrating tested software, utilities and patches to production.
• Assist with authentication/authorization by managing user accounts and permissions.
• Perform scheduled database audit procedures and backup scheduling.
• Support disaster recovery and recovery testing.
• Assist with storage/capacity planning and routine maintenance.
• Participate in database tuning, monitoring, and index maintenance.
• Contribute to production documentation (DR plans, naming standards, performance tuning).

Skills

Microsoft SQL

Linux

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

IT-related degree (bonus)

Job description

Job Description Ready to take your career global? Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We're looking for a Distributed Database Administrator II to join our ever evolving Database Administration team and help shape the future of global commerce. In this role you will administer database utilities, monitor the relationships between the database users and applications, and maintain the organization's databases across multiple platforms and computing environments. Apply understanding of relational database concepts and query languages in order to design required summary or aggregation tables to support analyses. Collaborate with technology/infrastructure staff to identify data relationships and functional requirements; analyze and resolve issues related to information flow and content. Maintain database support tools, database tables and dictionaries and recovery and back-up procedures. Perform data modeling studies and develops detailed data models; maintains data model and entity relationship diagrams.

What you’ll own:

• Assists more experienced Database Administrators (DBAs) with the testing of database software, utilities and patches within a test environment.
• Assists in the migration of tested/approved database software, utilities, and patches to production.
• Begins to demonstrate a database administration acumen.
• Assists with the completion of authentication and authorization requests by creating/purging/maintaining user accounts, adding/deleting/modifying table and data permissions.
• Performs and/or sets up scheduled database audit procedures to track the who/when changes are made or new items are created within the database environment.
• Assists in the scheduling of database back-up tasks.
• Observes and supports more experienced DBAs during a disaster recovery and/or recovery exercises to continue familiarization and knowledge of database recovery tasks.
• Assists more experienced DBAs with storage and capacity planning by executing established reports, gathering additional data and occasionally performing basic routine maintenance such as data compression or defragmentation.
• Participates in database tuning, optimizing, and monitoring tasks by assisting more experienced DBAs with the execution of routine tasks such as monitoring query performance and rebuilding inconsistent and/or corrupt indexes.
• Assists more experienced DBAs during application failures to further develop knowledge and application of troubleshooting techniques.
• Gathers data/reporting and assists with the production and maintenance of operational database documentation, such as SQL Disaster Recovery, SQL Recovery Presentation, Naming Standards, Performance and Tuning.

What you'll bring:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• Typically Minimum 2 Years Relevant Exp Microsoft SQL experience With the Installation, Customization, Testing and Maintenance of database systems within a production environment.
• It's a bonus if you have: Bachelor's Degree: IT related field Linux experience

Come and be part of an ever evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders.

What makes a Globalpayer?

Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team. We're curious and innovative - always finding better ways to deliver impact. We empower each other to make decisions, and it's our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do.

Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Globalpayer.

Our perks - what we'll bring for you

• A competitive salary and benefits package that recognizes your contribution
• Opportunities to grow your skills and build your career within a global business
• Access to learning, development and on-the-job experiences that expand your expertise
• A supportive, inclusive team environment where your ideas and input matter
• Time to give back through community and charity initiatives
• A global employee assistance programme to support your wellbeing
• Recognition through a global platform that celebrates your achievements

https://jobs.globalpayments.com/en/why-global-payments/benefits/

Applicant must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future; We will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa).

Diversity and EEO Statements

Global Payments is an organization that stands against racism, intolerance and injustice in all its forms - one that respects, honors and celebrates the diversity of our team members and the differences among us. Our commitment to fostering a company culture that values and respects Inclusion and Diversity is steadfast. Standing together as one company, we will continue to work to drive positive change for the communities in which we live and work and stamp out injustice. #LI-JH EEOC Statement Global Payments is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here. If you are made a conditional offer of employment and will be working in the United States, you will be required to undergo a drug test. In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies and requirements needed to successfully perform the position. Reasonable accommodations will be provided for individuals with qualified disabilities both during the hiring process, as well as to allow the individual to perform the essential functions of the job, if hired.

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