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Expeditors, leader in international freight forwarding and global logistics, has the following opening in Information Services in Spokane, WA:



Database Administrator



Scope of Position:



The DR/HA Database Administrator ensures the reliability, integrity, consistency, and availability of data throughout the organization, focusing on disaster recovery / high availability strategies and implementation.



Major Duties and Responsibilities:



- Provide database design and implementation services for enterprise application environments.

- Diagnose and isolate database system related problems, utilizing available resources to remediate.

- Provide helpdesk ticket and emergency support for database systems. Assist with database problem diagnostics, analysis and recovery operations. Provides production support for databases including after-hours on-call support.

- Monitor database performance and resources to identify database configuration, hardware, software and SQL query tuning opportunities

- Perform database system upgrade, maintenance, and trending activities.

- Develop, maintain and enhance tools for task automation using available scripting languages

- Establish and document database administration standards, processes, work flows, design and related tasks.

- Collaborate with and mentor team members.

- Serve as technical representative/liaison to train IS support and operations staff in RDBMS.

- Stay current on database technologies, including industry trends, tools, frameworks, products and methodologies.



DR/HA Duties and Functional Responsibilities:



- Design and support the DR/HA Program through projects to provide for the high availability of the production systems, processes and functionality, redundancy at a secondary data center facility, and participate in testing resiliency of the DR/HA infrastructure.

- Ensure the recoverability of data through the design, implementation and documentation of DR/HA strategies to support business goals for Recovery Time Objective (RTO), Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), and service level requirements.

- Provide database administration operational and support services out of the secondary data center in the event of a disaster or catastrophic failure at the primary data center.

- Provide daily support activities for the Database Administration team when not actively working a DR/HA efforts.

- Provide comprehensive documentation for DR/HA database systems, processes, and contingency plans.



Experience and Education:



- Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

- 5+ years of database management experience with 3+ years in database design and performance analysis

- Strong knowledge of DB2 and SQL Server relational database management systems and concepts required; familiarity of Oracle a plus

- Extensive scripting experience with sh, ksh, bash, awk, sed, and Perl

- Demonstrated ability to provide solutions to complex technical issues in a team and project-oriented environment

- Solid knowledge of databases leveraging clustering, mirroring, replication and RDBMS management tools

- Excellent communication (written & verbal) and troubleshooting skills



Reporting Structure:



Systems Administration, Disaster Recovery/High Availability Manager





Career Opportunities page: http://domino.expeditors.com/expd/Careers.nsf/Webjobs

Please apply online at: http://domino.expeditors.com/expd/careers.nsf/248a474164f3880f882568cc005968cf/57c3a6cba220f06488257919007ccbbb?OpenDocument

• Location: Spokane
  
• Compensation: DOE
  
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