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Are you passionate about making a difference in people's lives? Do you enjoy working in a service-oriented industry? If so, this opportunity may be the right fit for you!

Modivcare is looking for an experienced Database Administrator IV to join our team. As a Database Administrator IV, you will play a critical role in ensuring the performance, security, availability, and scalability of the enterprise database platforms that power our healthcare operations, business applications, analytics, and digital initiatives. Your expertise will help deliver trusted, resilient data services that enable better decision-making, improve operational efficiency, and support the technology that connects members, providers, and caregivers.

This is an opportunity to shape the future of our enterprise data infrastructure by modernizing database platforms, advancing cloud adoption, and implementing automation that improves reliability, security, and operational excellence. Working alongside application developers, data engineers, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and business leaders, you will design and support enterprise database solutions that serve as the foundation for mission-critical applications, advanced analytics, and emerging AI-driven capabilities.

We're looking for a collaborative technology professional who thrives on solving complex technical challenges and building secure, scalable, and highly available database environments. The ideal candidate is passionate about continuous improvement, embraces automation and cloud technologies, and enjoys partnering across teams to deliver solutions that create measurable business value. If you're excited by the opportunity to build resilient data platforms that support innovation, strengthen healthcare operations, and help improve the experiences of the members and communities we serve, we'd love to hear from you.

• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain enterprise database platforms including IBM Db2, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and other relational and NoSQL database technologies.

• Design and implement highly available, secure, and scalable database environments that support enterprise business applications, analytics, and operational workloads.

• Monitor database performance and implement optimization strategies including query tuning, execution plan analysis, indexing, partitioning, and configuration tuning to maximize reliability, scalability, and efficiency.

• Design, implement, and maintain backup, recovery, disaster recovery, replication, resilience, and high availability solutions that protect critical business data.

• Implement database security controls including role-based access control (RBAC), authentication, authorization, encryption, auditing, dynamic data masking, row- and column-level security, least-privilege access, and protection of sensitive data including PHI.

• Ensure database availability, operational reliability, scalability, and performance through proactive monitoring, maintenance, capacity planning, and continuous performance management.

• Manage database lifecycle activities including data retention, archival, restoration, purge, and storage optimization while meeting business, regulatory, and security requirements.

• Partner with application developers, data engineers, analytics teams, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to design efficient database solutions, optimize workloads, and support application releases.

• Administer AWS database services including Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon Redshift, including provisioning, configuration, monitoring, security, backup, scaling, and performance optimization.

• Support database migration, modernization, cloud adoption, integration, and consolidation initiatives across on-premises and cloud environments.

• Troubleshoot complex database issues, perform root cause analysis, and resolve production incidents to minimize business disruption.

• Develop automation scripts and tools to streamline database provisioning, monitoring, maintenance, backup validation, security validation, and operational processes.

• Maintain database documentation, operational standards, procedures, and best practices.

• Ensure compliance with organizational data governance standards and regulatory requirements.

• Utilize AI-powered tools responsibly to improve operational efficiency, automate routine work, enhance solution quality, and support informed decision-making in alignment with organizational standards.

• Participate in after-hours support and scheduled maintenance activities as needed.

• This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

• Seven (7) or more years of experience administering enterprise database environments.

• Professional database certifications (e.g., IBM Db2, MongoDB, AWS Certified Database - Specialty, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or equivalent) preferred.

• Experience administering enterprise database platforms including IBM Db2, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and other relational and NoSQL database technologies.

• Strong SQL programming skills and expertise in database architecture, physical and logical design, indexing, partitioning, query optimization, execution plans, and performance tuning.

• Strong understanding of database administration including backup and recovery, replication, clustering, high availability, disaster recovery, resilience, and business continuity planning.

• Experience implementing enterprise database security including RBAC, authentication, authorization, encryption, auditing, least-privilege access, dynamic data masking, row- and column-level security, and protection of sensitive data including PHI.

• Experience supporting Windows and Linux server environments.

• Experience administering AWS database services including Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon Redshift.

• Strong understanding of relational database architecture, database lifecycle management, and operational best practices.

• Ability to optimize database performance within high-volume transactional and analytical environments.

• Experience with database monitoring, administration, automation, and performance management tools.

• Experience supporting database migration, modernization, data warehousing, ETL processes, or business intelligence solutions preferred.

• Experience developing automation using PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar scripting technologies preferred.

• Experience with DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines preferred.

• Familiarity with healthcare, financial services, or other highly regulated industries preferred.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, and communication skills.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities while responding effectively to production incidents in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong attention to detail and commitment to data integrity, security, compliance, and operational excellence.

• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across cross-functional technical and business teams.

• Ability to leverage AI-enabled tools responsibly to improve productivity, automate routine tasks, enhance decision-making, and support continuous improvement while adhering to organizational policies and data security requirements.

Salary: $ 116,700- 140,000

This role is bonus eligible based on individual and company performance.

The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the position. Reasonableaccommodationsmay be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

Primarily seated work; extensive computer and telephone use; occasional standing, walking, reaching, bending, andlifting upto 10 lbs.

Modivcare's positions are posted and open for applications for a minimum of 5 days. Positions may be posted for a maximum of 45 days dependent on the type of role, the number of roles, and the number of applications received. We encourage our prospective candidatesto submit their application(s) expediently so as not to miss out on our opportunities. We frequently post new opportunities andencourage prospective candidates to check back often for new postings.

We value our team members and realize the importance of benefits for you and your family.

Modivcare offers a comprehensive benefits package to include the following:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• Employer Paid Basic Life Insurance and AD&D
• Voluntary Life Insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-Tax and Post --Tax Commuter and Parking Benefits
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with Company Match
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Discounts (retail, hotel, food, restaurants, car rental and much more!)

Modivcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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• We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap or disability, or status as a Vietnam-era or special disabled veteran in accordance with federal law. If you need assistance, please reach out to us athr.recruiting@modivcare.com