Senior Database Administrator

State of Missouri; Jefferson City (MO); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Defined pension

Leave and holidays

Health insurance

Job summary

Office of State Courts Administrator in Jefferson City, MO seeks a Senior Database Administrator to lead installation, upgrades and ongoing DB management across mainframe and midrange environments. You’ll implement backup/recovery strategies, monitor performance, and ensure high-availability across critical database systems.

Requirements include a Bachelor’s degree with CS coursework and 5 years of related experience; strong problem-solving and on-call readiness are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with CS-related coursework and 5 years’ mainframe/midrange software configuration experience.
• Experience designing, configuring and maintaining database systems of varying complexity.
• Knowledge of backup/restore strategies, clustering, and disaster recovery concepts.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, maintain and test database systems of limited complexity.
• Identify sources of problems and propose solutions to ensure uptime.
• Develop complex queries to generate reports on customer requests.
• Respond to emergencies and manage hardware/software provisioning.
• Install, maintain, and protect database hardware and software products.
• Plan and monitor database components for performance and accessibility.

Skills

database design

database modeling

backup and restore

high-availability

db clustering

monitoring & tuning

Education

Bachelor's degree with CS coursework

Job description

Location

Office of State Courts Administrator Jefferson City, MO

Salary Information

The salary reflected represents the base pay for this position and does not include any differential for time‑of‑service pay for state tenure.

Why You’ll Love This Position

A position with the Office of State Courts Administrator provides you the opportunity to work with a variety of exceptional, hardworking people and to gain a valuable and rewarding career. It takes many types of talent to advance the mission of the Missouri Judiciary and to keep operations running smoothly. We have opportunities for individuals seeking meaningful work in providing administrative, business and information technology services to the Missouri courts.

Position Overview

We are recruiting to fill a Senior Database Administrator position responsible for installation of the database software, new releases and upgrades, and supporting products. Also responsible for the management and hands‑on database administration for the design, installation, configuration, upgrades, maintenance, backup, recovery, tuning and monitoring of all databases. Must be able to work as the highest level support engineer with knowledge and ability to respond to on‑call situations, develops and maintains a backup and recovery strategy for all databases.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, configure, maintain, document and test database systems of limited complexity
• Identify problem source (hardware, software or operator error), present solutions and resolve problems, refer and discuss difficult and unusual problems with supervisor or other designated contacts as appropriate
• Develop complex query programs to generate reports upon customer requests
• Respond to emergency situations to resolve problems, as required
• Install, maintain, define, organize, control, and protect hardware and software products
• Create, monitor, and modify the physical size and structure of database components and programs that support, maintain, and generate information from a database

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree with at least 15 semester hours in computer science, computer programming, systems analysis and design, or network design and configuration, and 5 years of experience with primary responsibility for the configuration of computer hardware or software in a mainframe, midrange and computer environment or with installation and configuration of operating systems, network design and configuration, installing and configuring software applications.

Additional experience above the minimum stated may be substituted on a year for year basis for the required education.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficient in database design and modeling.
• Strong knowledge of installation, configuration, upgrading and applying service packs of the database implementation versions identified by the ITS division.
• Proficient in database backup and restore strategy using full database backup/restore and transaction log backup/restore.
• Strong knowledge of database clustering.
• Strong knowledge of high‑availability strategies (includes log shipping, DB replication and failover) and experience in disaster recovery tests.
• Experience in database monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning, maintenance and auditing configuration.

Benefits

The State of Missouri offers an excellent benefits package that includes a defined pension plan, generous amounts of leave and holiday time, and eligibility for health insurance coverage. Your total compensation is more than the dollars you receive in your paycheck. More information regarding employment and benefits can be found here: OSCA Benefits. To review an interactive total compensation calculator, click the following link: Compensation Calculator.

Contact

Please send inquiries regarding this position or questions regarding employment with the Office of State Courts Administrator to: [e-mail]