Senior SQL Database Administrator (DBA) - Remote

Grow your career at Cedars-Sinai!

The Enterprise Information Services (EIS) team at Cedars-Sinai understands that true clinical transformation and the optimization of a clinical information systems implementation is fueled through the alignment of the right people, processes, and technologies.

Cedars-Sinai has once again solidified its position as a global healthcare technology leader, receiving top accolades in not one but two prestigious surveys.

Why work here?

Cedars-Sinai placed in the top 20 on Newsweek 's World's Best Smart Hospitals 2024 list, which highlights hospitals that have excelled in the utilization of electronic functionalities, telemedicine, digital imaging, artificial intelligence and robotics.

The organization’s Healthtech excellence was acknowledged again, this time by the esteemed CHIME Digital Health Most Wired recognition program.

Cedars-Sinai was assigned a Level 10 the most prestigious level of certification among more than 300 surveyed healthcare organizations.

Cedars-Sinai netted high scores across multiple domains and particularly excelled in the areas of infrastructure, interoperability, and population health innovation.

What you will be doing :

The Senior SQL Database Administrator (DBA) leads and works closely on the EIS DBA technology team in designing, installing, maintaining, fixing and optimizing SQL Server database instances for departmental and enterprise-wide systems across physical and virtual servers for both on-premises and cloud platforms.

The Senior acts as the DBA representative to all other EIS teams and departments, including, but not limited to, Linux / AIX / Windows OS teams, and server and storage hardware / virtualization infrastructure teams.

Will help coordinate with management to set project goals, requirements, schedules and provide feedback on performance assessments for EIS DBA team members.

Coordinates daily work and long-term projects of the team and leads the team in completion of those goals. Strong troubleshooting skills, attention to detail and multitasking capabilities are required to ensure success.

Designs and implements viable database backup, recovery, and high availability strategies and mechanisms. Carries out database recovery, restoration, and / or restart as the need arises.

Perform quarterly disaster recovery validation.

• Defines and implements database parameters, security, audit, and prioritization policies and procedures. Defines, creates, and manages user accounts, profiles, privileges, roles, and required audit information.
• Audits database features and versions to maintain licensing compliance across all relevant products.
• Mentors and develops DBA skills for staff through individual and team training sessions.

Qualifications

Experience Requirements :

Six (6) plus years of production database administration experience. (Healthcare sector preferred)

Lead experience a plus.

Hands-on and strong knowledge of SQL Server Databases. (SQL Server 2016 and up)

Project management experience.

Skills in monitoring, tuning, and administrating Microsoft SQL Server databases.

Preferred experience in :

AWS (RDS, EC2, CloudFormation).

Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL and SAP HANA.

Database Management using storage snapshot technologies (NetApp, EMC).

PowerShell, Shell, Python or other scripting languages.

Educational / Certification Requirements :

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. (preferred)

SQL Server certification preferred.

Req ID : 4504

Working Title : Senior SQL Database Administrator (DBA) - Remote

Department : EPIC Systems and DBAs

Business Entity : Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Job Category : Information Technology

Job Specialty : Database Management

Overtime Status : EXEMPT

Primary Shift : Day

Shift Duration : 8 hour

Base Pay : $114,233.60 - $182,769.60

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Remote working / work at home options are available for this role.