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Role Summary:

Cinemark is seeking top talent in its Information Technology department to join our team as a Database Administrator. The ideal candidate is a well-rounded Database Administrator who primarily specializes in Microsoft SQL Server administration with familiarity with other database platforms and enjoys a technical challenge as well as creative engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the health, changes to, creation and administration of databases in the production environment
• Tier two support for remote SQL databases, as well as participate in planning meetings
• Participate in general systems administration
• Own, track and resolve database related incidents and requests, performance tuning, backups, patching, and remediation of security vulnerabilities
• Focus on managing and resolving issues
• Manage backup and recovery processes to ensure recovery timelines can be met
• Assist application development team in environmental restores
• Notification/Alerts management and resolution (e.g. SQL Agent Job Failures, Capacity Shortages, System Outages, etc.)
• Fluent understanding of basic database instance maintenance tasks (e.g. DB Integrity Checks, Index Maintenance, etc.)
• Ability to configure security within established guidelines and perform related task/audits
• Work with business stakeholders on internal and third-party audits
• Deployment of database change scripts provided by application development team
• Advise developers on the most efficient database design (tables, datatypes, stored procedures, etc.)
• Build and maintain documentation related to the company’s database environment
• Initiating and performing changes in production systems

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree, SQL Server certifications, or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience as a SQL Server Database Administrator
• Solid understanding/experience securing MS SQL server
• Experience managing database servers both on premises along with cloud environments utilizing virtualization or PaaS services, such as Azure SQL.
• Experience with Postgres SQL
• Experience with Azure cloud management, including familiarity with Power BI, Fabric, or Synapse
• Experience with securely linking MS SQL servers
• Experience with MS SQL data replication
• Experience resolving MS SQL performance issues
• Understanding of MS SQL tuning (including storage allocation, scheduled tasks)
• Experience with MS SQL maintenance plans
• Strong MS SQL troubleshooting skills
• Solid scripting capabilities (PowerShell, Python, etc.)
• Strong skills related to automated maintenance plans
• Breadth of experience with databases of various sizes and criticality
• Experience with modifying stored procedures, triggers, and database designs in a production environment
• Good understanding of Indexing and its impact on server performance
• Solid communication skills/ability to create documentation for non-MS SQL specialists
• Ability to discover problems in a large multi-facet environment, and then convince management to acquire resources to solve issues
• Ability to take ownership and create good documentation
• Ability to take ownership of an issue and take it to completion
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Ability to install and configure new SQL Servers/SSRS instances and upgrade existing instances
• Ability to work with other teams on server level issues to prevent/resolve issues as needed
• Firm comfort level with learning new things
• Must be able to sit for extended periods of time
• Customer service-oriented mentality
• Experience with Active Directory
• Broad, general systems administration experience
• Ability to multitask
• Ability to write documentation for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
• Experience with managing many production databases

Benefits Available:

At Cinemark, we believe every team member should feel like a hero. Each career comes with a variety of blockbuster benefits for both hourly and salaried team members.

• Employee Discount
• 401(k) Matching*
• Growth Opportunities
• Education Assistance*
• Health Benefits*
• Parental Leave*
• Paid Time Off*
• Daily Pay*
• Free Movies*

*Benefits may vary by career category, so be sure to check the