Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. National Digital Trust Company is a newly approved federally chartered trust bank focused on providing digital asset services. The Lead Database Administrator will oversee the management of complex database environments, ensuring operational efficiency and security while collaborating with IT infrastructure and application development teams.
Responsibilities
- 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 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
Skills
- 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
- Employer-provided: Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Life and disability insurance
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