Database Administration Manager Jobs in Virginia

Salary : $73,073.00 - $146,059.00 Annually
Location : City Hall, 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA
Job Type: Full-Time
Job Number: 20M00000121
Department: Information Technology
Opening Date: 08/20/2026
Closing Date: 9/4/2026 11:59 PM Eastern
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Description
** The maximum hiring compensation for this position is to not exceed a salaried rate of $109,566/year.**
The City of Richmond Department of Information Technology is seeking to fill the need for a Technology Engineer/Administrator. Incumbents perform work as a technology engineers or systems administrators and are considered designated subject matter experts. Incumbents perform skilled assessments, troubleshooting, and administration of user issues, and solve complex database issues. Additionally perform project configuration and design recommendations and documentation as required.
Duties include but are not limited to

• Configuration and troubleshooting
• Performance reviews and recommendations
• Backups and recovery of databases
• Researching and resolving issues in performance
• Documentation and updating of project documentation as well as trouble tickets
• Providing afterhours support in coordination with an on-call rotation
• Contributing and participating in project review, design, and configuration
• Developing and analyzing reporting documentation with regards to performance, backups, and security
• Providing technical support for daily issues or outages
• Process development for new strategies with regards to database in a production environment
• Providing updates, notifications, and documentation for outages during active sessions
• ITIL change management documentation for all production changes
• Providing timely service and resolutions to services requests and incidents in accordance with SLA's
• Ensuring production uptime and performance
• Research, documentation, and presenting environmental changes for future areas of improvement and optimization to ensure efficient solutions
• Research and identification of trends and develop areas of improvements as it relates to performance in a production environment

Incumbents serves as an Essential employee, which means that the incumbent is required to work when the City is closed due to public emergencies, critical or hazardous conditions, or inclement weather
The incumbent in this position is required to serve on-call 24 hours/7 days a week to provide leadership for the support and resolution of problems for critical systems and applications within the assigned City of Richmond portfolio.
Qualifications, Special Certifications and Licenses
KNOWLEDGE:

• Considerable working background in Microsoft SQL database administration. Architecture and troubleshooting in a working environment.
• Database administration and backup/recovery management. Working knowledge of backing up and restoring of production databases.
• Knowledge of SQL database performance tuning. Monitoring and optimization of database performance.
• Desired working knowledge of database security and management.
• Desired working knowledge of troubleshooting database issues in a production environment.
• Working knowledge of database administration tools. SQL Workbench, SQL Studio, Datadog database monitoring, etc.
• Desired working knowledge of Oracle database administration.
• Desired working knowledge of UNIX (any version would be helpful)
• Knowledge of ITIL Change Management

SKILLS:

• Administration and management of production databases.
• Basic to advanced troubleshooting skills.
• Backup/recovery/monitoring of databases.
• Communication within a team environment with peers as well as customer facing.
• Security assessment and review of database administration and access.
• Design, configuration, deploying, troubleshooting, administration, and maintaining systems.
• Ensuring project and workload documentation and process are accurate, on time, and stored properly.

ABILITIES

• Demonstrated abilities in analyzing; thinking critically
• Paying attention to detail
• Solving problems
• Organizing
• Planning
• Managing time effectively
• Prioritizing
• Contributing to and supporting multiple projects simultaneously.

MINIMUM TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
• Two years of journey-level professional systems and network engineering experience
• An equivalent combination of training and experience (as approved by the department) may be used to meet the minimum qualifications of the classification

LICENSING, CERTIFICATIONS, and OTHER SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

• SQL Database Administration (essential)
• SQL Configuration and Management (desired but not essential)
• Oracle DBA (desired but not essential)
• UNIX Administration (desired not essential)

PREFERRED TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE:

• Working knowledge of Windows SQL 2019 and above
• Desired working knowledge of Oracle 11G, 12C, 18C, and 19C
• Desired working knowledge of UNIX operating systems. Particularly as it relates to storage configuration
• Technical writing skills, project documentation, process and procedures, knowledge base articles for usage and best practices.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
The City of Richmond provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
The City of Richmond is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, the City of Richmond will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If you require reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to participate in the job application and/or the interview process, please contact Veronica Kenner, by email at HR-ADA@rva.gov.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
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5-point veteran's must have been discharged under honorable conditions and had one of the following:Active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States, in a war, or during the period 4/28/52-7/1/55 or active duty for more than 180 consecutive days other than for training, any part of which occurred during the period beginning 2/1/55 and 10/14/76 or active duty during the Gulf War sometime between 8/2/90 - 1/2/92 or active duty in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized or active duty for which more than 180 consecutive days other than for training, any part of which occurred during the period beginning 9/11/2001 and ending on the date prescribed by the Presidential proclamation or by the law as the last date of operation Iraqi Freedom. Do any of these apply?

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Employees in this job classification are designated ESSENTIAL PERSONNEL and must be available to report to work during disasters, inclement weather, and other declared emergencies. Are you available and willing to work under these conditions?

• Yes
• No

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Are you available and willing to work on call work hours to include evenings, weekends, and holidays?

• Yes
• No

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Which answer best describes your highest level of education?

• High School Diploma/GED
• Some college
• Associate's Degree
• Bachelor's Degree
• Master's/Advanced Degree
• None of the above

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Which best describes your years of experience working in Information Technology?

• Less than two years of experience
• Two to five years of experience
• More than five years of experience

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How many years of experience do you have administering Oracle databases on multiple platforms?

• Less than two years of experience
• Two to five years of experience
• More than five years of experience

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How many years of experience do you have administering SQL databases on multiple platforms?

• Less than two years of experience
• Two to five years of experience
• More than five years of experience

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How many years of experience do you have configuring Autosys job scheduler and Cron job management?

• Less than two years of experience
• Two to five years of experience
• More than five years of experience

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How many years of experience do you have configuring UNIX operating systems to work with Oracle databases?

• Less than two years of experience
• Two to five years of experience
• More than five years of experience

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How many years of experience do you have configuring Windows based operating systems to work with SQL databases?

• Less than two years of experience
• Two to five years of experience
• More than five years of experience

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How many years of experience do you have developing training documentation for hands-on tasks?

• Less than two years of experience
• Two to five years of experience
• More than five years of experience

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How many years of experience do you have administering MySQL?

• Less than two years of experience
• Two to five years of experience
• More than five years of experience

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How many years of experience do you have using industry standard database monitoring tools?

• Less than two years of experience
• Two to five years of experience
• More than five years of experience

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What is your experience level with SQLs Max Virtualization?

• Beginner experience
• Intermediate experience
• Advanced experience
• No experience

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Do you have experience with the Oracle Database Appliance?

• Yes
• No

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How has your education, training and experience prepared you for this opportunity?
Required Question