Database Administrator - IT Application Services

Full Salary Range:                       $88,200 - $123,500 Annually
Anticipated Hiring Range:       $88,200 - $105,850 Annually

Why do I see two salary ranges?
The City of Greeley in compliance with Colorado state law, includes a salary range for all positions posted.  This law is intended to improve wage transparency.  The City of Greeley, in support of wage transparency, posts both the full salary range for each position (what you might anticipate your earnings could be if you work for the City of Greeley for some time), as well as the anticipated hiring range (the range within which the City anticipates making an offer).  The actual offer extended will be based on your years of relevant experience, education, certifications and potentially other factors.

City of Greeley's Total Rewards
The City of Greeley is proud to offer a robust benefits package in addition to your wages.  This package includes health and wellness, retirement savings, discounted access to Greeley facilities and more. 

Benefits: This position is benefit eligible. Please view our benefits guide here.

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Job Summary:

The City of Greeley is seeking a Database Administrator to join our Application Services team in IT.  This position reports to the Application Services Manager and will enhance database performance, perform restores, implement recovery procedures, handle performance tuning, and conduct regular system backups, while ensuring technical and functional designs meet business requirements. This position is responsible for configuring, maintaining, managing, monitoring, and supporting various City departmental databases and applications including SQL Server Database, Community Development, Laserfiche, SalesTax, RecTrac, and FullCourt.

Furthermore, you will maintain, troubleshoot, tune, secure, support, and design servers and databases, while collaborating with others to resolve technology issues. This includes communicating with customers, evaluating business processes and requirements, organizing, communicating, and following through on goals, deadlines, and expectations.

Experience, Knowledge, Skills:

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree.
• Typically requires a basic understanding and application of theoretical or scientific principles, acquired through college education or advanced vocational skills strengthened by three to five (3-5) years of on-the-job experience.
• Experience with complicated IT practices and precedents.

OR 

• Any combination of related education, experience, certifications and licenses that will result in a candidate successfully performing the essential functions of the job,

AND 

• Possession of a valid driver’s license.

Preferred

• Knowledge of computer hardware and software, including processors, internal hardware dynamics, applications and programming.
  • Specifically, SQL, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Server Profiler, database monitoring tools, server monitoring tools, collaboration tools, Confluence Jira, BitBucket SQL Server, SQL Server Integration Services, SQL Server Reporting Services, Kanban vSphere, and VMWare.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of information technology service management (ITSM) principles and best practices.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity and privacy principles and best practices.
• Knowledge of common computer operating systems.
• Knowledge of computer networking fundamentals.
  Technical computer skills, including the ability to assess complex data, utilize common operating systems, learn new software programs, and understand programming languages.
• Computer programming skills, including the ability to evaluate and solve problems, stay organized, be cognizant of and address details, and utilize common programming languages (e.g., SQL, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Server Profiler, database monitoring tools, server monitoring tools, collaboration tools, Confluence Jira, BitBucket SQL Server data tools, SQL Server Integration Services, SQL Server Reporting Services, Kanban vSphere, VMWare, etc.).
• Ability to collect and document business needs and translate the information collected into technical specifications.
• Ability to write technical documentation and specifications with the intention that it be easily understandable to the target audience.
• Ability to translate and explain technical co