Lead Database Administrator

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☕ Washington – Remote

☕ Washington – Remote

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🟠 Senior

📀 Database Administrator

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National Trust

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10,000+ employees

🤲 Charity

🏨 Hospitality

🛒 Retail

Charity • Hospitality • Retail

National Trust is Europe’s largest conservation organisation and a registered charity that protects and opens historic houses, gardens, parks, countryside and cultural heritage across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It operates a wide range of visitor services — including food & beverage, retail, holidays, visitor experience and educational programming — and runs estate management, conservation, fundraising, volunteer and apprenticeship programmes to care for places and engage millions of visitors each year.

📋 Description

• Work with the Head of IT Infrastructure to ensure appropriate staffing levels are met. • Prioritize and coordinate database team staff for engineering and operations activities. • Sharing knowledge with team members helps improve the team's overall skills and performance. • Drive a collaborative culture that values technical depth, accountability, and customer service. • Collaborate on the design and building of the complete production IT infrastructure required to run a highly secure and highly available set of applications across multiple data centers. • Collaborate on the design and building of the corporate IT infrastructure. • Collaborate with peers to generate realistic technical roadmaps across the whole organization. • Identify tools needed for the NOC team to ensure proper monitoring and operation. • Implement and maintain controls and monitoring procedures to ensure availability of critical systems, and minimal service interruptions. • Adhere to quality standards and procedures to ensure the best specifications are always met and maintained. • Collaborate with the compliance team to provide required resources, appropriate documentation, and secure access during audits. • Stay on the forefront of emerging technologies to recommend new technology and ideas that improve the platform and efficiency. • Be able to adapt to new technologies, applications, and perform critical required duties as necessary. • Determine when services should be outsourced to lower costs and/or free up internal team members to tackle tasks that give National Digital Trust Company (In Organization) a competitive advantage without losing required security or functionality. • Occasional travel to other customers, and vendor offices. • Ability to share in on call rotation and work with remote locations around the world during their hours, as needed.

🎯 Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in technology positions with an emphasis on infrastructure services. • Knowledge of business concepts, and an understanding of the links between major business processes, products, systems, and networks. • Track record of working collaboratively and productively with business partners. • Installing and upgrading the server and application tools • Allocating system storage and planning future storage requirements for database system • Creating primary database storage structures driven from application requirements • Creating primary objects (tables, views, indexes, etc.) based on application requirements • Modifying database structures • Enrolling users and maintaining database security • Ensure licensing compliance • Controlling and monitoring user access to databases • Monitoring and optimizing database performance • Planning backup and recovery of data • Backup and restore the database environment • Contacting technical support when needed • Continuous integration/delivery • Demonstrated administrative, financial, project management, and vendor management skills. • Ability to set and communicate priorities and manage multiple tasks • Team-oriented mindset supporting enterprise-wide goals • Strong service orientation • Superior analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities • Exceptional ability to lead change using positive and collaborative methods, removing barriers, acting with a sense of urgency, and leading by example • Analytical and focused on continuous improvement. • Sets and communicates priorities effectively; able to manage multiple tasks and priorities. • Exceptional service orientation. • Keen attention to detail. • Postgres database administration • IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code) • Automated software-based infrastructure management

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance • 401(k) • life and disability insurance