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Database Administrator

Are you an experienced database professional who enjoys ensuring database environments are secure, reliable, and performing at their best?

Do you enjoy partnering with technical and business teams to support critical database operations while helping prepare for future technology modernization?

About the Role

As a Database Administrator, you will be responsible for supporting database availability, performance, security, integrity, backup, recovery, and ongoing maintenance. You will work with application, infrastructure, security, reporting, and development teams to support stable database operations and future technology modernization.

In this role, you will monitor and optimize database environments, troubleshoot technical issues, support deployments and data migrations, and help ensure database systems remain secure, reliable, and scalable.

Responsibilities

As a Database Administrator, you will be responsible for:

• Installing, configuring, upgrading, monitoring, and maintaining database platforms in standalone or high-availability environments.
• Creating, maintaining, and supporting tables, views, indexes, stored procedures, functions, schemas, jobs, and database objects.
• Monitoring database health, performance, storage growth, query activity, blocking, deadlocks, and job execution.
• Performing database backups, restores, recovery testing, refreshes, and disaster recovery support.
• Supporting database security, user access, roles, permissions, service accounts, encryption, auditing, and compliance requirements.
• Tuning SQL queries, indexes, execution plans, stored procedures, and database configuration for performance.
• Troubleshooting database connectivity, performance, locking, data, application, reporting, and deployment issues.
• Supporting database deployments, schema changes, release scripts, rollback scripts, and environment validation.
• Reviewing database design changes and providing guidance on logical and physical database design.
• Supporting data migration, data conversion, data refresh, and environment synchronization activities.
• Supporting ETL, reporting, SSIS, SSRS, data warehouse, and analytics-related database processes.
• Supporting database logging, application logging tables, monitoring tables, and reporting data stores.
• Assisting with data archiving, retention planning, archive databases, warehouse databases, and report performance improvements.
• Creating and maintaining database automation scripts using T-SQL, PowerShell, SQL Agent, or similar tools.
• Supporting integration and API-related database needs, including data feeds, interface files, staging tables, and troubleshooting.
• Maintaining database documentation, recovery procedures, data flow notes, deployment notes, and operational runbooks.
• Working with developers, system administrators, business analysts, testers, and vendors to resolve issues and plan improvements.
• Following change management, release management, data security, audit, and compliance processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field is desired. Equivalent education, training, or experience may be considered.
• Minimum of five years of database administration or database support experience.
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server administration.
• Experience supporting enterprise application databases across development, test, UAT, and production environments.
• Experience with high availability and disaster recovery support.
• Experience with SQL Server backup, restore, recovery, database refresh, security, performance tuning, and production support.
• Strong T-SQL development and query tuning skills.
• Experience with index management, execution plans, and performance tuning.
• Experience with SQL Agent jobs and scheduled database processes.
• Knowledge of database security, roles, permissions, auditing, and compliance.
• Knowledge of SSIS, SSRS, ETL, reporting, and data warehouse concepts.
• Experience with data archiving, retention, partitioning, and storage growth management.
• Experience with PowerShell or scripting for database automation.
• Experience supporting application deployments and database release scripts.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
• Knowledge of DevOps tools, source control, and CI/CD database deployment concepts.
• Knowledge of cloud database readiness and migration assessment concepts.
• Ability to review database changes and clearly explain risks, impacts, and options.
• Ability to work effectively with technical teams, business teams, vendors, and management.
• Ability to document work clearly and follow data security, operational, and change control processes.
• Ability to support planned maintenance, deployments, production incidents, or recovery activities when required.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across servers, applications, databases, networks, access, and deployments.
• Ability to work effectively with developers, business analysts, DBAs, security teams, network teams, vendors, and management.
• Ability to document work clearly and follow operational, security, and change control processes.
• Ability to support planned maintenance, deployments, production issues, or recovery activities when needed.

Flexible Working

At Conduent, we want you to be yourself. We recognize that everyone is different and that how people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too.
In this role, you can expect the following working conditions:

• Onsite work: Work in our local office, receiving personal coaching and leadership so that you can provide the best support to our clients and help you grow in your career.

Working For You

Perks and rewards designed for you:

• Health and Welfare Benefits: Our health and welfare benefits can be tailored to fit your needs and start on the first day of employment.
• Retirement Savings: We support you as you invest in your future.
• Employee Discounts: We offer you access to a vast selection of global, national, and local discounts on merchandise, services, travel, and more.
• Career Growth Opportunities: We help you thrive, so together, we can grow. We provide opportunities to advance your career with a vast portfolio of businesses and a global footprint.
• Training: Earn while you learn and continue to grow with access to award-winning learning platforms throughout your Conduent career.
• Great Work Environment: We are proud of our award-winning culture and the recognition we've received for our diversity efforts.

Join Us

At Conduent, we are one team, one mission. We understand that our success is directly related to the success of our associates. We strive to create a culture where you can:

• Bring your authentic self to work.
• Grow and thrive, both personally and professionally
• Make a difference with our clients, in our communities, and with the millions of people we support.

With a large workforce across 24 countries, we're proud to foster a truly global culture-one that supports well-being, values every contribution, and empowers our people to grow both personally and professionally. 

Pay Transparency Laws in some locations require disclosure of compensation and/or benefits-related information. For this position, actual salaries will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. In addition to base pay, this position, based on business need, may be eligible for a bonus or incentive. In addition, Conduent provides a variety of benefits to employees including health insurance coverage, voluntary dental and vision programs, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays, and paid time off (PTO) or vacation and/or sick time. The estimated salary range for this role is ($69,300 - $90,000)

Through our dedicated associates, Conduent delivers mission-critical services and solutions on behalf of Fortune 100 companies and over 500 governments - creating exceptional outcomes for our clients and the millions of people who count on them. You have an opportunity to personally thrive, make a difference and be part of a culture where individuality is noticed and valued every day.

Conduent is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, gender identity, gender expression, sex/gender, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, use of a guide dog or service animal, military/veteran status, citizenship status, basis of genetic information, or any other group protected by law.

For US applicants: People with disabilities who need a reasonable accommodation to apply for or compete for employment with Conduent may request such accommodation(s) by submitting their request through this form that must be downloaded:  click here to access or download the form.  Complete the form and then email it as an attachment to FTADAAA@conduent.com. You may also click here to access Conduent's ADAAA Accommodation Policy.