Manager IT DBA

ticketnetwork; South Windsor (CT); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Ins.

401K and more

Paid Time Off and Holidays

Growth opportunities

Training opportunities

Casual dress policy

Free Food and Beverage Program

Many more perks!

Job summary

RCN Capital, LLC seeks an experienced Database Operations Leader to mentor a team of DBAs and align on service levels and priorities. You will drive automation and excellence across on-prem and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities include overseeing SQL Server environments, DR planning, migrations, and governance, while partnering with IT leadership to advance architecture and security practices in a hybrid work setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of database administration experience in enterprise environments.
• 3+ years of leadership or management experience.
• Experience administering Microsoft SQL Server in highly available environments.
• Experience with SQL Server Always On, backup/recovery, performance tuning, DR planning.
• Experience with Amazon RDS and/or SQL on EC2.
• Experience with automation and scripting including PowerShell and T-SQL.
• Experience with Aurora PostgreSQL and DynamoDB, plus other managed DB services.
• Strong understanding of database security, access controls, auditing, and governance.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Database Administrators through coaching, performance management, career development, and cross training.
• Establish team objectives, operational priorities, and service-level expectations.
• Manage staffing, workload distribution, on-call support, and resource planning.
• Foster a culture of operational excellence, accountability, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee administration, maintenance, monitoring, patching, and lifecycle management of enterprise database platforms.
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, backup, and recovery capabilities are implemented, tested, and validated.
• Establish and maintain database performance monitoring and capacity planning processes.
• Serve as escalation point for critical database incidents and production outages.
• Cost optimization through core optimization, workload consolidation, and deployment configuration improvements.
• Drive database architecture standards and best practices across the organization.
• Lead modernization and cloud adoption initiatives involving database platforms and services.
• Lead database migrations, data integrity and performance validation, documentation, and post-migration readiness.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to reliability, security, scalability, and efficiency.
• Promote automation of operational tasks through scripting, orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Ensure database environments meet security standards, audit requirements, and regulatory obligations.
• Establish governance processes for database administration, change management, backup retention, and access management.
• Monitor database risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Collaborate with Development, Infrastructure, Cloud, Security, and Enterprise Architecture teams on deployments and roadmaps.
• Participate in project planning, budgeting, vendor management, and technology roadmap discussions.
• Communicate operational health, risks, and strategic recommendations to IT leadership.

Skills

Leadership

SQL Server

Always On

Backup & Recovery

Performance Tuning

T-SQL

PowerShell

Aurora PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Security & Governance

Stakeholder Management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information technology or Computer Science

Certifications: Azure Database Administrator Associate, AWS Certified Database - Specialty

Tools

AWS RDS/EC2

Terraform

CloudFormation

Bicep

Job description

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Database Administrators through coaching, performance management, career development, and cross training.
• Establish team objectives, operational priorities, and service-level expectations.
• Manage staffing, workload distribution, on-call support, and resource planning.
• Foster a culture of operational excellence, accountability, automation, and continuous improvement.

Database Operations

• Oversee the administration, maintenance, monitoring, patching, and lifecycle management of enterprise database platforms.
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, backup, and recovery capabilities are implemented, documented, tested, and regularly validated.
• Establish and maintain database performance monitoring and capacity planning processes.
• Serve as the escalation point for critical database incidents and production outages.
• Cost optimization through core optimization, workload consolidation, and deployment configuration improvements.

Architecture & Engineering

• Drive database architecture standards and best practices across the organization.
• Lead modernization and cloud adoption initiatives involving database platforms and services. Lead database migrations, data integrity and performance validation, documentation, and post-migration operational readiness.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to reliability, security, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Promote automation of operational tasks through scripting, orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code practices.

Governance & Compliance

• Ensure database environments meet corporate security standards, audit requirements, and regulatory obligations.
• Establish governance processes for database administration, change management, backup retention, and access management.
• Monitor database risks and develop mitigation strategies.

Business Partnership

• Collaborate with Development, Infrastructure, Cloud, Security, and Enterprise Architecture teams on application deployments, upgrades, and strategic initiatives.
• Participate in project planning, budgeting, vendor management, and technology roadmap discussions.
• Communicate operational health, risks, and strategic recommendations to IT leadership.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of database administration experience supporting enterprise database platforms.
• 3+ years of leadership or management experience.
• Strong expertise administering Microsoft SQL Server in highly available enterprise environments.
• Experience with SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, backup and recovery, performance tuning, and disaster recovery planning.
• Experience with Amazon RDS and/or optimizing SQL on EC2
• Experience managing mission-critical production environments with 24x7 availability requirements.
• Experience with automation and scripting technologies including PowerShell and T-SQL.
• Experience with Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB and other managed database services.
• Strong understanding of database security, access controls, auditing, and operational governance.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting cloud database platforms in Microsoft Azure and/or AWS.
• Experience leading database platform modernization or cloud migration initiatives.
• Microsoft Azure Database Administrator Associate, AWS Certified Database - Specialty, or equivalent certifications.
• Experience supporting highly regulated, e-commerce, retail, healthcare, financial services, or similar environments.
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, MySQL, or other non-Microsoft database platforms.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep) and DevOps practices.

Schedule:

• Full time
• Monday-Friday, 9AM to 6PM
• Hybrid work model - 2 days/week in office

We Offer:

Compensation-Salary - 100-120K

Position eligible for discretionary bonus

• Competitive benefits, including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short/Long-Term Disability, 401K, and more!
• Paid Time Off and Paid Company Holidays
• Growth-oriented work environment
• Training opportunities
• Casual dress policy
• Free Food and Beverage Program
• Many more perks!

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