The Computing Services central IT department provides services that have a strategic impact on university goals. We make service decisions based on interaction and valuable input from colleagues engaged in the education, research, and administration efforts of the university. We are a learning organization and approach successes and mistakes as a learning experience to continually cultivate a culture of intelligent risk taking. We want to hire versatile team members who are inspired and passionate about their work. Join us and be part of a team committed to excellence, innovation, diversity, team and individual growth.The Senior Database Administrator is responsible for administering, securing, and optimizing Microsoft SQL Server databases running in a Windows ecosystem and across public cloud platforms. This role installs, configures, maintains, patches, and tunes databases and the underlying Windows and cloud infrastructure that support them; designs and enforces standards; performs backup and recovery and disaster-recovery planning and testing; provides Level-2/Level-3 escalation support for critical partner and internal applications; and designs and operates cloud and hybrid application architectures and database platforms. The Senior DBA collaborates with application developers, cloud and infrastructure engineers, storage, and network teams to ensure reliable, performant, secure, and cost-effective data platforms.Your core responsibilities will include: Install, configure, and maintain Microsoft SQL Server instances and related components across Windows and cloud platforms.Implement and enforce database security measures to protect data across on-prem and cloud deployments, including encryption, access controls, and cloud IAM integrations.Monitor database performance, diagnose problems, and apply tuning, indexing, and query optimization to maintain application performance in both environments.Perform backup and recovery operations; design and test DR plans usin
