Senior Enterprise DBA - Performance & Security

University of Utah; Utah; On-site; USD 110,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Utah seeks a Database Administrator III to ensure the availability, performance, security, and reliability of enterprise database environments on campus. The role partners with teams and stakeholders to provision databases, support requests, refresh data, and maintain service continuity.

Responsibilities include monitoring, tuning, backup/recovery, DR, encryption, access controls, and audit compliance, with platform modernization and cloud adoption as ongoing priorities.

Qualifications

• 1 year of higher education can be substituted for 1 year of directly related work experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent is preferred for related work experience.
• 6 years of related work experience with a bachelor’s or 4 years with a master’s is required or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Ensure availability, performance, security, and reliability of enterprise database platforms.
• Monitor, perform health checks, respond to alerts, and tune performance.
• Handle backup/recovery, DR, encryption, access controls, and audit compliance.
• Collaborate with teams to provision databases, support requests, perform data refreshes, and maintain service availability.
• Lead platform modernization through automation, cloud adoption, virtualization, upgrades, patches, and vulnerability remediation.

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree or equivalent

Tools

SQL Server

Oracle

MySQL

AWS

Azure

GCP

OCI

Job description

University of Utah seeks a Database Administrator III to ensure the availability, performance, security, and reliability of enterprise database environments on campus. The role partners with teams and stakeholders to provision databases, support requests, refresh data, and maintain service continuity.

Responsibilities include monitoring, tuning, backup/recovery, DR, encryption, access controls, and audit compliance, with platform modernization and cloud adoption as ongoing priorities.