Senior Database Administrator

Job Type: Full time

Job Number: JR-025374

Location: Salt Lake City,
UT

If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country-and you’re committed to working hard
to play your part in building that future-consider WGU as the next step in your career.

Driven by a mission to expand access to
higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse
workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received
praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping
students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.

The salary range for this position takes into
account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience
and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU, it is not typical for an individual
to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of
each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:

Grade: Technical 408 Pay Range: $116,000.00 – $174,100.00

Job
Description

Western Governors University (WGU) is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Database Administrator to serve as
a technical leader responsible for designing, implementing, securing, and optimizing enterprise database platforms across cloud and hybrid
environments.

This role is ideal for a database professional who thrives in complex, large-scale environments and enjoys balancing
strategic architecture initiatives with hands-on operational excellence. You’ll play a critical role in modernizing data platforms, enabling
cloud transformation, improving reliability and performance, and ensuring business continuity across mission-critical systems.

The
Senior Database Administrator partners closely with software engineers, cloud infrastructure teams, enterprise security, architects, and
business stakeholders to deliver highly available, secure, and scalable database solutions. In addition to serving as a subject matter
expert, you’ll mentor fellow DBAs and help shape the future of WGU’s database ecosystem.

Database Architecture & Engineering

• Design, implement, and manage enterprise-grade database environments across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), AWS, and hybrid
  platforms.

  
  

• Lead architecture and administration efforts for Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer (ExaCC), Oracle RAC, and Oracle
  GoldenGate.

• Design and support active-active, high-availability, and global database architectures, including Aurora Global
  Database and Oracle RAC.

  
  

• Lead enterprise database modernization initiatives, including migrations from on-premises
  environments to cloud-native services.

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor for strategic database and infrastructure
  decisions.

  
  

Cloud & Platform Modernization

• Lead migration efforts from bare-metal and traditional database
  environments to managed cloud services.

  
  

• Engineer and administer AWS database technologies including:

  • Amazon
    RDS (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server)

    
    
  • 
    

    Amazon
    Aurora

  • 
    

    DynamoDB

  • 
    

    ElastiCache

  • 
    

    Amazon
    Redshift

  • OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

  
  

• Utilize AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) and related
  technologies to support modernization initiatives.

  
  

• Partner with engineering teams to support application decomposition and
  migration from monolithic architectures to microservices.

Reliability, Security & Performance

• Establish and
  maintain Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) across critical platforms.

• Lead database security
  initiatives including encryption, auditing, access controls, compliance, and vulnerability remediation.

  
  

• Perform advanced
  database performance tuning, optimization, capacity planning, and forecasting.

• Develop and maintain disaster recovery and
  business continuity strategies.

  
  

• Conduct synthetic testing and performance validation to ensure platform
  readiness.

Operations & Support

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex database incidents, outages, and
  performance issues.

• Lead root cause analysis and implement preventative solutions.

  
  

• Manage database patching,
  upgrades, maintenance, and lifecycle management activities.

• Execute database-related deployments, data fixes, and production
  changes.

  
  

• Participate in a 24x7x365 on-call rotation and support critical maintenance activities.

• Develop
  metrics, dashboards, and reporting to measure operational effectiveness and platform health.

  
  

Leadership & Collaboration

• Mentor and guide junior and mid-level database administrators.

  
  

• Collaborate closely with cloud engineers, software
  developers, security teams, and project stakeholders.

• Lead enterprise-level projects from planning through successful
  implementation.

  
  

• Promote operational excellence, automation, and continuous improvement practices across the
  organization.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology,
  Information Systems, or a related field.

• Equivalent combinations of education, certifications, training, and experience will
  be considered.

  
  

• 5+ years of enterprise database administration and engineering experience supporting Oracle
  databases.

• 4+ years of experience administering enterprise database platforms including PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Aurora,
  DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Redshift, and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.

  
  

• Experience designing and supporting highly available,
  mission-critical database environments.

• Experience migrating databases from traditional infrastructure to cloud database
  services.

  
  

• Experience implementing and supporting AWS database technologies and migration tooling.

• Experience
  supporting application modernization initiatives and microservices architectures.

  
  

• Experience with database deployment
  automation, DevOps practices, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience working within Change Management and ITIL-based operational
  environments.

  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of enterprise database administration and engineering
  experience.

  
  

• Experience with Qlik Replicate, Qlik analytics platforms, and Talend integrations.

• Experience
  supporting large-scale cloud transformation initiatives.

  
  

• Relevant Oracle, AWS, or database-related
  certifications.

• Experience in higher education, healthcare, financial services, or other highly regulated
  environments.

  
  

Why Join WGU?

At WGU, technology directly supports our mission of expanding access to high-quality
education. As a Senior Database Administrator, you’ll help build and modernize the data platforms that power critical student, faculty, and
business systems. You’ll work alongside talented engineers and architects while driving meaningful technical initiatives that impact
hundreds of thousands of learners nationwide.

Join us and help shape the future of education through scalable, secure, and innovative
technology.

Position & Application Details

Full-Time Regular Positions (classified as regular and working 40 standard
weekly hours): This is a full-time, regular position (classified for 40 standard weekly hours) that is eligible for bonuses; medical,
dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare; health savings account and flexible spending account; basic and voluntary life insurance;
disability coverage; accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages; legal and identity theft coverage; retirement
savings plan; wellbeing program; discounted WGU tuition; and flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual,
flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual, 11 paid holidays, and other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.

How to Apply: If interested, an application will need to be submitted online. Internal WGU employees will need to apply through the
internal job board in Workday.

Additional Information

Disclaimer: The job posting highlights the most critical
responsibilities and requirements of the job. It’s not all-inclusive.

Accommodations: Applicants with disabilities who require
assistance or accommodation during the application or interview process should contact our Talent Acquisition team at recruiting@wgu.edu.

Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic as required by law.

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