[Remote] Database Administrator Host Services

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. UFS Tech is a growing company that empowers community bankers and values its employees. They are seeking a Database Administrator to analyze and optimize the company’s operating applications and infrastructure, ensuring high availability and performance while managing vendor relationships and security practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide support for assigned applications, ensuring high availability
• Provide hands-on and remote troubleshooting and problem resolution
• Drive efforts to proactively identify application or system issues improving availability and performance
• Ensure application Service Level Agreements are exceeded by maintaining ownership of incidents through resolution
• Complete projects, coordinate with team members and provide status updates
• Track problems and bugs with vendors and communicate as resolutions are implemented
• Responsible for vendor management; system OS, software, & infrastructure upgrades; gathering quotes; investment proposals; and change management
• Responsible for providing financial information for budgeting and helping to forecast future spending needs
• Coordinate the prompt diagnosis and resolution of infrastructure issues that have an impact on the production environment
• Manage demands of deadlines that are responsible for all host services implementations and conversion-related activities
• Perform troubleshooting techniques to solve problems, working with appropriate vendors for resolution
• Stay current on security-related issues and analyze the impact on Navanta; making recommendations for security management and monitoring processes
• Generate and maintain virtual servers; perform cloning tasks and snapshots and monitors performance for assigned systems and applications
• Responsible for appliance/workstation/server security for supported systems and software
• Responsible for backup strategy, documentation, and verification
• Responsible for replication/high-availability strategy, documentation, and verification
• Ensure vulnerabilities are managed with priority and aligned with the Navanta vulnerability policy
• Perform all duties with a high level of change management aligned with Navanta change management policy
• Systems’ performance and capacity monitoring and reporting
• Assist in the installation, maintenance and support of company servers
• Actively participate in special projects and strategic initiatives based on our priorities for the year
• Perform other duties as assigned

Skills

• Working knowledge of security practices relating to workstations, servers, internet, etc
• Ability to use troubleshooting techniques to resolve Fiserv host environment and underlying infrastructure
• Knowledge of Microsoft Suite of products; Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, etc
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Desire to continually improve and contribute to our purpose of empowering community bankers and our people to thrive together
• 3-5 years' experience with application/system support
• SQL experience and database administration is required
• Working knowledge of Progress OpenEdge databases is required
• Linux, Unix, or AIX operating system experience is required
• Fiserv Precision experience is strongly desired
• Fiserv Premier experience a plus
• IBM i operating system experience is a plus
• Previous experience in the banking industry a plus

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