Senior Database Administrator

Description

Position at WebMD

WebMD Health Services is part of the WebMD family. We have been designing well-being programs for employers and health plans for over 20 years. Our mission is to empower organizations and their populations to improve well-being through personalized, strategic partnerships.

Overview : WebMD is the most recognized and trusted brand of health information and the leading provider of health information services, serving consumers, physicians, healthcare professionals, employers and health plans through our public and private online portals and WebMD the Magazine. The WebMD Health Network includes WebMD, Medscape, MedicineNet, eMedicine, RxList, and Medscape Education. Our consumer portals and mobile health applications provide engaging, relevant and credible health and wellness information, personalized health assessment tools and access to online communities.WebMD is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, ancestry, color, religion, sex, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, medical condition, disability, veterans status, or any other basis protected by law.This position is an opportunity to join a highly effective and collaborative team that values diversity of perspective, individual responsibility, and mutual respect. We administrate databases for a multi-site high availability SOC 2 SaaS system running 24 / 7 / 365 that securely stores and processes large, frequently changing datasets including PHI and PII. We are motivated by our corporate mission to improve our users’ lives.Responsibilities :

• Support day-to-day operations and management of over 50 enterprise-level production database instances in development, testing, staging and 24 / 7 / 365 production environments
• Manage the backup and recovery program including performing manual as well as scheduled / automated backups and restores of production and non-production databases.
• Conduct routine index and statistics maintenance
• Ensure high levels of data availability and database performance
• Troubleshoot and remediate incidents, sharing in on-call rotations
• Install, configure, update and migrate SQL Server Instances, both standalone and as part of an AG
• Monitor, tune and optimize performance at the server, instance, database and object level including execution plan analysis and optimization.
• Monitor, tune and optimize storage.
• Continuously improve processes and procedures
• Automate administrative processes

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