Senior Database Administrator: Oracle & SQL Server

Horizontal Talent; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 50,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement plan

Job summary

Horizontal Talent is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to support energy operations across development, test, and production environments. You will work with Oracle and SQL Server, collaborating with application and infrastructure teams to improve reliability, performance, and data integrity.

You will administer backups, perform recovery and continuity activities, and tune performance to ensure high availability.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience administering SQL Server and Oracle databases.
• Backup, recovery, and business continuity expertise.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration.
• Data governance and data quality focus.
• Experience with Windows/SQL Server clustering and AlwaysOn.
• Proficiency in T-SQL/PLSQL and scripting.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support database environments across development, test, and production systems.
• Perform backups, recovery, and continuity activities to protect data.
• Tune performance and resolve issues affecting availability and efficiency.
• Maintain design standards, patching, and environment health.
• Support capacity planning and data integrity efforts.
• Collaborate with system admins, developers, and architects on projects.
• Provide consulting on database solutions and data management practices.
• Contribute to data governance and data-driven decision making.
• Assist with reporting and analytics tied to business needs.

Skills

SQL Server

Oracle

Stakeholder comms

Data governance

Cross-functional teamwork

Data modeling

Reporting solutions

T-SQL/PLSQL

PowerShell

Windows clustering

PostgreSQL/MySQL

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SSIS

Reporting Services

AlwaysOn

Oracle RAC/Data Guard

Mirroring/Log Shipping

Job description

Horizontal Talent is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to support energy operations across development, test, and production environments. You will work with Oracle and SQL Server, collaborating with application and infrastructure teams to improve reliability, performance, and data integrity.

You will administer backups, perform recovery and continuity activities, and tune performance to ensure high availability.