SQL Database Administrator

Location:

Oxford Life Insurance Company was founded in 1965 and is a member of AMERCO a publicly traded financial holding network. AMERCOs other significant holdings including UHaul International and Republic Western Insurance Company. Our fast paced growing company is seeking eager qualified customercentric individuals to join our team in Phoenix AZ.

Job Overview:

Oxford Life Insurance is looking for a SQL Database Administrator to be responsible for working with a team of Web Developers. In this challenging role you will be responsible for comprehensively overseeing projects designing and developing web architecture and guiding and mentoring a team. In exchange this rewarding position comes with excellent benefits.

To be successful as a DBA you should be comfortable working within a team have a keen eye for detail and have excellent organizational skills. Ultimately a topnotch DBA should have strong technical qualities be able to provide guidance and support and be highly accurate.

The SQL team does end to end care of a largescale enterprise MS SQL Servers.

Assist the application teams and developers with requests for anything from new users/roles to standing up an entire new clustered instance which is fully compliant with security standards.

Actively support our internal IT teams as well as our vendors performing regular maintenance/patching for a wide variety of MS SQL server deployment.

The ideal candidate is a selfmotivated multitasker and demonstrated team player. You will be a lead developer responsible for the development of new software products and enhancements to existing products. You should excel in working with largescale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.

Understanding and familiarity with WCF and web service development using the .Net platform with VB C# and XML. experience with C# and VB 4.0 XML WCF and business to business integration using SOAP or REST as well as knowledge of Domain Driven Development Service Oriented Architectures and experience in backend service development will be helpful.

Monitor performance and health; complete regular internal system audits; prepare for upgrades; implement changes; and apply patches when required. Design and maintain reports to monitor the health use deduplication tools to scrub duplicate data from the database and use Apex tests field utilization reports. Troubleshooting application key selection creation of appropriate indexes and queries as needed.

Responsibilities

• Managing SQL Server & Database access
• Monitor and respond to SQL server performance degradation
• Make optimization recommendations to SQL queries
• Troubleshoot issues with applications connecting to SQL databases
• Perform SQL server and database maintenance
• Monitor database backups
• Respond to capacity issues on database servers
• Collaborate with other team members to ensure project meets business objectives and compliance standards
• Support test and deployment of new products and features
• Participate in code reviews

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science (or related field)
• 5 years of relevant work experience can be substituted for education
• Expertise in ObjectOriented Design Database Design and XML Schema
• Experience with Agile or Scrum software development methodologies
• Ability to multitask organize and prioritize work
• Experience unit testing
• Experience with / understanding of modern Design Patterns
• Azure Experience (Wiki Pipelines continuous integration)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with SQL in multiple datacenters
• Experience running SQL in Azure
• Experience with Grafana
• Preferred certifications: SQL MCSA

Languages & Technologies:

• .NET Framework .NET Core C#
• ASP WebApi MVC Web Forms
• AJAX SOAP XML JSON
• SQL (TSQL) HTML CSS
• JavaScript & Common JavaScript Libraries: Angular jQuery pdf.js
• Agile / Scrum Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery
• OAuth Libraries for C# (implementation/deployment experience) IdentityServer4

Here are just some of the programs UHaul has available:

• Full Medical coverage
• Prescription plans
• Dental & Vision Plans

• New indoor fitness gym
• Gym Reimbursement Program
• Registered Dietitian Program
• Weight Watchers
• Onsite medical clinic for you and your family
• Career stability
• Opportunities for advancement

• Valuable onthejob training
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Free online courses for personal and professional development at UHaul University

• Business and travel insurance
• You Matter Employee Assistance Program
• Paid holidays vacation and sick days
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Life insurance
• Critical Illness/Group Accident
• 24hour physician available for kids
• Subsidized gym/ membership
• MetLaw Legal program
• MetLife auto and home insurance
• Mindset App Program
• Discounts on cell phone plans hotels and more
• LifeLock identity Theft
• Savvy consumer wellness programs from health care tips to financial wellness
• Dave Ramseys SmartDollar Program
• UHaul federal credit union
• Wellness Program

UHaul Holding Company and its family of companies including UHaul International Inc. (UHaul) continually strives to create a culture of health and wellness. Consistent with applicable state law UHaul will not hire or rehire individuals who use nicotine products. The states in which UHaul will decline to hire nicotine users are: Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Iowa Kansas Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Nebraska Pennsylvania Texas Utah Vermont Virginia and Washington. UHaul has observed this hiring practice since February 1 2020 as part of our commitment to a healthy work environment for our team.

UHaul is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants for employment will be considered without regard to race color religion sex national origin physical or mental disability veteran status or any other basis protected by applicable federal provincial state or local law. Individual accommodations are available on requests for applicants taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Information obtained during this process will only be shared on a need to know basis.