The production DBA supports deployed applications that support Solarity’s business operations. The Production DBA focuses on assuring high availability and optimizing efficiency to ensure business SLAs are met. This role is responsible for managing databases: Performance, Administration, and Recovery. Develops and manages a robust set of maintenance/health tasks, in order to anticipate, prevent, or detect and resolve production problems. Collaborate with Software Engineering to understand new features to be released and how that will affect the current Cluster capacity. Collect and analyze SQL Server metrics to understand future infrastructure and licensing capacity needed to maintain business continuity and SLA’s.

Primary Responsibilities

• Work directly with systems administrators, IT infrastructure engineers, service desk members and other invested departments to develop, implement and support new end user solutions which address identified business needs
• Installation, administration and maintenance of Microsoft SQL Server Instances
• Owns the strategic direction for the database platform architecture
• Create users and assign permissions based on the level of database access the user would need
• Design database backup and restore strategy
• Setup high-availability as part of a disaster recovery strategy for the databases
• Troubleshoot various problems that arise in the day-to-day operations, recommending and performing remediation actions
• Perform monitoring and performance tuning activities at the physical server level, database level (database settings and options) and query tuning to include index optimizations
• Familiarity with failover clustering, SAN replication, and other high availability technologies
• Perform database growth projections vs disk space available, audits, resource monitoring (I/O bottlenecks, memory pressure, CPU use)
• Manage maintenance plans for databases in the environment
• Monitor and test backup operations to ensure they are performed regularly and are restorable

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical field; or equivalent work experience.
• MCTS, MCITP, and/or MVP certifications a plus
• 8+ years of relevant experience administering Microsoft SQL Server
• 3+ years of experience maintaining enterprise-scale database environments
• Well versed in Microsoft SQL Server query performance tuning
• Familiarity with SSRS and SSIS is a plus
• Experience implementing and managing SQL Server Enterprise level features
• Experienced in setting up SQL Server Log Shipping, Replication and Mirroring a plus
• Working knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR)
• Knowledge and experience working with NoSQL platforms a plus

Performance Expectations

• Actively communicates the value of business objectives and goals when beneficial.
• Consistently follows company policies, departmental standards and outlined procedures and takes ownership of improving these artifacts when identifying opportunity for improvement.
• Delivers outstanding customer service.
• Communicates in a clear and concise manner at all times.
• Able to consult and guide stakeholders through decision making processes.
• Ability to draw out unexpressed business needs and omitted requirements.
• Takes ownership of assigned and self-identified responsibilities ensuring commitment to satisfactory resolution.
• Accepts and supports occasional need to work outside standard business hours.
• Actively participates in formulating department objectives and goals.
• Enthusiastically develops standards, procedures or other relevant artifacts when identifying a department or stakeholder need.
• Proficiently re-prioritizes tasks and develops contingencies when either quality or timeliness of efforts are at risk.
• Clearly and timely communicates all scheduled absence to team(s) and leadership, while ensuring workload is delegated as needed in order to minimize negative impact to due dates and expectations.
• Proactively defines and implements needed solutions to identified and anticipated challenges with minimal guidance from leadership.
• Thorough ability to think through problems and brainstorm solutions, while considering dependencies and overall impacts.
• Intuitively identifies risks, bottlenecks and constraints and takes active steps to address them without waiting for external leadership.
• Performs admirably with minimal direct oversight, while maintaining high standards and productivity.
• Creative problem solver with effective ability to consider and understand cross functional dependencies and business impacts.
• Strong ability to determine root cause of failures and find solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Proficiently re-prioritizes tasks and develops contingencies when needed.
• Exhibits strong operational intelligence, understanding of technical concepts and system integrations, and general business acumen.
• Exhibits consistent leadership in all communications and interactions.
• Exemplifies professional behavior consistently.
• Actively works on making the company a fun and enjoyable place to work.
• Actively serves as a role model and mentor in team as well as business interactions.
• Comes prepared to, and actively participates in all required meetings.
• Maintains and encourages optimistic outlook while positively promoting change as needed.
• Continually seeks process improvement and personal opportunities for growth.

We are not currently hiring for this position in the following states: AK, CA, CO, DC, DE, HI, MA, MD, NJ, NY, OR, PA, VT, WA, WV.

About Solarity

Solarity improves the accuracy, accessibility, and interoperability of electronic medical records through innovative, service-backed technology to capture and index healthcare documentation. Our solutions convert any healthcare document into properly formatted and indexed EMR data. Customers save time, improve efficiency, and enhance the value of their EMR investments while allocating labor resources more productively.

We have more than 50 years of experience managing documents for billing and treatment. Our customers rely on us for easily implemented, easy-to-use innovations that deliver powerful, always-improving results, as well as flexible delivery models for healthcare organizations of all sizes and specializations. For more information, visit www.SolarityHealth.com.

Solarity is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.