Senior Database Administrator III - Availability & Cloud

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

Job summary

The University of Utah UIT Infrastructure & Ops seeks a Database Administrator III to ensure availability, performance, security and reliability of enterprise database platforms. The DBA collaborates with teams, customers, and management to resolve complex issues and support business objectives.

This senior role handles monitoring, health checks, backup and recovery, encryption, access controls, and audit compliance, and drives modernization through automation, cloud adoption, and database

Qualifications

• Equivalency statement: 1 year of higher education can be substituted for 1 year of directly related work experience.
• Database Administrator III requires a bachelor's (or equivalency) + 6 years or a master's (or equivalency) + 4 years of directly related work experience.

Responsibilities

• The DBA is responsible for ensuring the availability, performance, security, and reliability of enterprise database platforms.
• This role manages database monitoring, health checks, alert response, performance tuning, storage and capacity planning, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, encryption, user access controls, and audit compliance.
• The DBA partners closely with application teams and business stakeholders to provision databases, support ServiceNow requests, perform data refreshes, troubleshoot issues, and maintain service availability.
• Additionally, the position works on platform modernization initiatives through automation, cloud adoption, virtualization, and the implementation of database upgrades, patches, and vulnerability remediation to ensure a secure, efficient, and highly resilient database environment.

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree or equivalent

Tools

SQL Server

Oracle

MySQL

AWS

Azure

GCP

OCI

Job description

The University of Utah UIT Infrastructure & Ops seeks a Database Administrator III to ensure availability, performance, security and reliability of enterprise database platforms. The DBA collaborates with teams, customers, and management to resolve complex issues and support business objectives.

This senior role handles monitoring, health checks, backup and recovery, encryption, access controls, and audit compliance, and drives modernization through automation, cloud adoption, and database