Senior Database Administrator

Company Description

We help the world see new possibilities and inspire change for better tomorrows. Our analytic solutions bridge content, data, and analytics to help business, people, and society become stronger, more resilient, and sustainable.

Job Description

• Aid in database design and implementation for relational databases as well as NOSQL databases. 
• Perform all aspects of database administration including, but not limited to upgrading, patching, tuning, support, backups, and troubleshooting.
• Work closely with application development teams to test, troubleshoot, and optimize new and existing database-driven applications.
• Actively participate in daily operational activities with the goal of continual improvement in the various database environments for which we are responsible.
• Support database functions by designing and scripting utilities to minimize human interaction of repetitive tasks.  (This is not a development position)
• Monitor production, test, and development database environments and actively pursue any issues limiting the performance, scalability, and availability of these systems.
• Take ownership of problems and manage incidents to limit issues seen by clients.
• Support the deployment of all Verisk applications as they leverage database technologies.
• Support enterprise security, auditing, and compliance related tasks. 
• Mentor other DBAs in industry best practices and latest trends.
• Effectively and professionally interact with customers, clients, and other Verisk employees.
• Willing to carry a mobile phone and participate in an on-call rotation.  Occasionally be able to work odd hours to help meet customer service level agreements (SLAs).
• Keep up with the latest technology and trends by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, benchmarking state-of-the-art practices, and participating in professional societies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or…
• 3+ years of database administrative experience working with various database management systems.
• Experience in administering current cloud database environments especially AWS RDS.
• Experience in a heavily used, highly available, 24x7 enterprise platform.
• Extensive experience supporting any of these platforms – PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, MySQL, SQL Server, DynamoDB, Elastic.
• Experience in troubleshooting and resolving database issues such as database integrity, performance, blocking and deadlocking, replication, log shipping, connectivity, security, etc.
• Experience in backup and recovery best practices, general administration, and health maintenance operations especially in a cloud environment.
• Experience in database performance tuning methodologies.
• Experience in configuring, implementing, and supporting high availability strategies with database systems including clustering and replication.
• Extensive experience with database management tools and other elements of enterprise level database support.
• Ability to work in a 24/7 high availability environment to ensure compliance with SLAs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, mentoring, and problem-solving skills.
• Related industry certifications are a plus.
• Experience with Unix, particularly Solaris and Linux.  Shell scripting a plus.

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Additional Information

In 2022, Verisk received Great Place to Work® Certification for our outstanding workplace culture for the sixth year in a row and second-time certification in the UK, Spain, and India. We’re also one of the 38 companies on the UK’s Best Workplaces™ list and one of 18 companies on Spain’s Best Workplaces™ list.

For over fifty years and through innovation, interpretation, and professional insight, Verisk has replaced uncertainty with precision to unlock opportunities that deliver significant and demonstrable impact. From our historic roots in risk assessment, we’ve grown to provide analytic insights that help transform industries focused on some of the world’s most critical areas. Today, the insurance industry relies on Verisk to be, and to make the world, more productive, resilient, and sustainable.

Verisk works in collaboration with our customers and at the intersection of people, data, and advanced technologies. Through proprietary platformed analytics, advanced modeling, and interpretation, we deliver immediate and sustained value to our customers and through them, to the individuals and societies they serve, with greater speed, precision, and scale.

We’re 9,000 people strong, committed to translating big data into big ideas. We help others see new possibilities and empower certainty into big decisions that impact individuals and societies. And we relen