Database Administrator

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About The Position: Are you passionate about ensuring the backbone of an organisation's data infrastructure is robust, secure, and always available? Do you thrive on designing and optimising complex database solutions across diverse platforms? We have an exciting opportunity for a Database Administrator to join our dynamic team and play a pivotal role in managing our critical data assets. This role is perfect for someone eager to make a significant impact, champion continuous improvement, and elevate their career within a supportive and innovative environment.

Business Unit: Information Technology

Date: 1 Sept 2025

Requisition ID: 426

Hybrid permanent full-time position; based out of Sydney, Melbourne, or Cooma offices.

• Designing, building, and maintaining robust, performance-optimised database solutions that are scalable, highly available, and secure, aligning with business requirements and strategic objectives.
• Ensuring "security by design," securing Snowy Hydro's data in transit, at rest, and in compliance with data privacy regulations.
• Establishing and regularly testing robust Disaster Recovery (DR), backup, and archiving strategies for all database systems.
• Leading reviews of new and existing databases and their infrastructure to ensure fitness for purpose, balancing cost and performance.
• Accountable for ensuring hosting infrastructure and underlying SaaS platforms support data requirements, highlighting and addressing maintenance, security, and patching issues.
• Creating and maintaining comprehensive documentation, including SOPs, as-built documentation, database standards, and technical specifications.
• Maintaining and providing second/third-line support for existing database systems through performance tuning, patching, upgrades, and incident management.
• Providing clear visibility and comprehensive reporting on database and infrastructure performance and status for informed, data-related decisions.
• Continuously researching and evaluating emerging database technologies and industry trends to proactively drive improvements in performance, scalability, and resilience.

• Tertiary qualification in computing and/or 5+ years experience in database administration.
• Proven experience administering, tuning, and troubleshooting Oracle (SQL) and MongoDB databases, including advanced features (e.g., RAC, Data Guard, sharding).
• Demonstrated experience with AWS (preferred), MongoDB Atlas, Azure, and/or GCP cloud database technologies (e.g., RDS, Aurora, DocumentDB, DynamoDB).
• Knowledge of database security best practices (e.g., encryption, access control, auditing, vulnerability management).
• Advanced analysis, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills for complex database and performance issues.
• Excellent communication skills, able to explain complex database concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform) for database provisioning and automation would be beneficial.
• Experience with database DevOps practices, including version control (e.g., Flyway, Liquibase) and CI/CD pipelines, would be advantageous.
• Docker or containerisation experience is desirable.
• Relevant database certifications (e.g., Oracle, MongoDB, AWS Database - Specialty) are highly advantageous.

Snowy Hydro has a culture of decency and inclusion, with a commitment to the health and wellbeing of our people and a supportive environment to ensure that everyone - regardless of background - feels included and can succeed. Snowy Hydro is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer and provides accessibility accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you need accommodation or special assistance to navigate our site or to complete your application, please email the Snowy Hydro recruitment team at recruitment@snowyhydro.com.au.

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Information Technology
• Industries: Utilities

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