Database Administrator – Advanced (Hybrid)

Columbia, IN - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 5 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Title: Database Administrator Advanced (Hybrid)

Location: Columbia SC

Duration: 12 Months

Position Description

The client seeks a highly skilled Database Administrator (DBA) to support mission-critical judicial systems statewide case management databases data warehouse platforms and reporting environments.

This position will provide advanced database administration performance tuning security hardening disaster recovery planning and cross-database standardization support for enterprise SQL Server environments supporting:

Statewide Case Management Systems (CMS environments)
Judicial Data Warehouse (DW)
Public Index & Reporting Systems
Power BI and Interactive Data Dashboards
Cross-county reporting standardization initiatives
Integrated court and justice partner systems

The DBA will work closely with the Deputy Director of Applications IT Applications Development Manager developers data analysts and infrastructure teams to ensure data integrity high availability performance optimization and compliance with statewide data governance initiatives.

Responsibilities:

Working on SQL Server (v 2016)

Administer and maintain SQL Server instances across multiple judicial environments.
Manage contained users authentication models and database-level security.
Configure and monitor SQL Agent jobs maintenance plans and index strategies.
Implement and validate backup/restore procedures and disaster recovery plans.
Support high availability configurations (Always On clustering where applicable).

Optimize large-scale tables supporting court case data.
Analyze and tune:
- Stored procedures
- Dynamic SQL
- Cross-database queries
- CTE-heavy workloads
- Index fragmentation and statistics
Review and optimize ETL loops across multiple CMS databases.
Reduce blocking deadlocks and long-running transactions.
Implement partitioning strategies where appropriate.

Assist with:
- Referential integrity enforcement
- Foreign key reconciliation
- Identity reseeding
- Data remediation & cleanup
Support statewide standardization of:
- County codes
- Circuit mappings
- Court type alignment
- Roster type consistency
Ensure alignment with the Chief Justices data initiative and reporting aggregation standards.

Optimize fact/dimension loading processes
Support performance tuning for Power BI reporting back-end queries.
Assist with:
- Indexed views
- Aggregation tables
- Incremental load strategies
Collaborate on data quality validation routines.

Harden SQL Server instances against unauthorized access.
Review role-based security for judicial data.
Ensure compliance with:
- Judicial confidentiality standards
- CJIS considerations (where applicable)
Monitor audit logs and security events.
Support WAF/SQL visibility requirements for secure application traffic.
- Imperva or similar security appliances

Assist in scripting deployment pipelines for:
- Schema changes
- Stored procedure deployments
- Data migration scripts
Support version control integration.
Create reusable administrative scripts for:
- Multi-database updates
- Password rotation
- Security audits
- Cross-environment validation

Required Skills:

7 years of experience with SQL Database Administration & Operations
3 years of experience with Performance Tuning & Optimization
3 years of experience with Data Integrity & Governance Support
3 years of experience with Data Warehouse Architecture & Reporting Support
3 years of experience with Security & Compliance
3 years of experience with Automation & DevOps Support

Preferred/Nice to Have Skills:

Experience in judicial government or public sector environments
Power BI backend optimization
.NET application data access patterns
Always On Availability Groups
Azure DevOps
Experience cleaning legacy data structures across multiple counties or jurisdictions

Job Title: Database Administrator Advanced (Hybrid) Location: Columbia SC Duration: 12 Months Position Description The client seeks a highly skilled Database Administrator (DBA) to support mission-critical judicial systems statewide case management databases data warehouse platforms and repor...