CDM Smith is seeking a Lead Database Administrator to join our global IT team. This individual will support mission-critical database systems, integrations, applications, and related infrastructure.

• Supports production systems and manages incidents by researching, coordinating resources, communicating with Information Technology (IT) and business staff, and resolving root causes.
• Collaborate with other IT teams such as business partners, network, security, cloud infrastructure, application teams and external vendors and consultants to design, integrate and implement applications and processes.
• Strictly enforces data integrity, data security, and data privacy by reviewing security announcements, performing periodic audit controls and applying patches.
• Research, install and configure database systems and related services, including hyper care.
• Maintains the organization's services across multiple platforms and computing environments, both on-premises and in the cloud. Monitors system health and performance to ensure high levels of performance and 24/7 availability.
• Provides technical expertise from service requests to large multi-year projects for application upgrades, migrations, and patch management.
• Independently analyze, solve, and remediate complex issues, providing permanent problem resolution and root cause reports.
• Implement backups, restores databases and applications, and recommends recovery models.
• Develops, modifies, and enhances scripts for backups, obfuscation, alerts, process improvements, routine and ad hoc reporting, and automation wherever possible.
• Creates and maintains operations and deployment documentation and provides knowledge transfer to team members. Updates the DBA Portal Page in Microsoft Teams.
• Plans, creates, participates in reviews, and executes production deployments.
• Reviews current processes to make sure they are still functioning properly and offers solutions on improving existing workflows.

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