Senior Database Administrator: Cloud, Automation & Security

University of Utah; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 110,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Utah seeks a Database Administrator III to oversee enterprise database platforms, ensuring high availability, performance, security, and reliability. The role includes monitoring, tuning, backup/recovery, encryption, access controls, and audit compliance, with collaboration across teams to support business objectives.

Responsibilities include database provisioning, data refreshes, issue resolution, and maintaining service availability, plus platform modernization through automation

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor's (or equivalency) + 6 years or a master's (or equivalency) + 4 years of directly related work experience.

Responsibilities

• Ensure availability, performance, security, and reliability of enterprise database platforms.
• Manage monitoring, health checks, alert response, performance tuning, storage and capacity planning, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, encryption, user access controls, and audit compliance.
• Collaborate with application teams and business stakeholders to provision databases, support ServiceNow requests, perform data refreshes, troubleshoot issues, and maintain service availability.
• Contribute to platform modernization through automation, cloud adoption, virtualization, and database upgrades, patches, and vulnerability remediation.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Equivalent experience

Tools

SQL Server

Oracle

MySQL

AWS

Azure

GCP

OCI

Job description

University of Utah seeks a Database Administrator III to oversee enterprise database platforms, ensuring high availability, performance, security, and reliability. The role includes monitoring, tuning, backup/recovery, encryption, access controls, and audit compliance, with collaboration across teams to support business objectives.

Responsibilities include database provisioning, data refreshes, issue resolution, and maintaining service availability, plus platform modernization through automation