Database Administrator

17 hours ago


Wellington City, New Zealand Datacom Full time

Our Purpose
Here at Datacom, we connect people and technology to solve challenges, create opportunities and discover new possibilities for the communities we live in whilst embodying a culture of trust and respect for employees and customers alike.
The Nuts and Bolts
Why You Want to Join Us - Our Team and Culture, Benefits, Career Growth, and Flexibility
We are local at heart, yet world-class in capability. We’ve managed to maintain our local family feel whilst expanding globally across Australia, ASIA, US and the UK. In the regions we continue to grow and actively support local workforces and their families. We are focused on being a great place to work, to facilitate an environment that encourages our employees to strive to imagine what’s possible, challenge the status quo and put forward fresh, diverse thinking. For our employees, this results in such fantastic perks as:

- a competitive salary package.
- impressive benefits such as discounted or even free healthcare and life insurance from leading providers and considerable discounts from local retailers.
- a supportive and flexible working environment, especially around working from home.
- a strong focus on and dedication for employee development, assisting from both an advisory and financial perspective, helping people to attain the certifications needed for genuine career growth.
- Having a large scale, globally respected IT organisation on your resume, and great opportunities to progress within.

About the Role
The Database Administrator role provides complex technical maintenance and support services to our customer base.

**Responsibilities**:

- Installing and configuring Database systems, patching and upgrades.
- Implementing new Databases and associated objects.
- Monitoring and reporting on Database service availability.
- Managing the landscape of Development, Test and Production Databases.
- Conducting all aspects of Database capacity planning, performance monitoring and tuning.
- Implementing, maintaining, enforcing and auditing Database security according to established security policies and standards.
- Performing Database backup, recovery and restoration.
- Contributing to the development of policies and procedures governing corporate Database operations and related issues.
- Carrying out proactive tasks such as incident trending, monitoring and tuning thresholds, task automation and improving existing toolsets.
- Administering database software packages and patches.

About you
- Relevant knowledge to the particular Database technologies - INFORMIX, Postgres.
- Strong skills in INFORMIX, including architecture, problem-solving, and performance tuning.
- Desirable for skills in managing Postgres Databases
- Optional skills and knowledge in MySQL Databases
- Hands-on experience managing, installing and configuring single and clustered database instances.
- Experience in cloud environments such as AWS or Azure.
- 2+ years of experience with large, corporate Databases
- Automation and scripting.
- Exceptional trouble shooting, analytical and problem-solving skills

**Desirable about you**:

- Engineered systems.
- Related platform technologies (Unix/linux, Windows, third party products).
- Working on engineering engagements.
- Database upgrades, migrations and decommission activities.
- Automating deployment and / or operational tasks.
- Experience in other database technologies including MySQL, Db2, Open-Source or Cloud databases


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