Database Administrator

1 week ago

Canberra, Australia Department of Employment and Workplace Relations Full time

APS Level 5
- Canberra, ACT
- $83,908 - $89,706

**About the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations**
We enable access to quality skills, training and employment services to support Australians find secure work in fair, productive and safe workplaces - supporting individuals and our nation to prosper.

**The Role**
We are looking for a Junior Database Administrator to assist the team with database administrative support following the Standard operating procedures. The person will be responsible for build, installation, and configuration of SQL servers, create databases, maintain security, backup /restore, daily health checks, performance monitoring/troubleshooting, BAU and various projects related database releases.

You are expected to have good T-SQL, PowerShell scripting knowledge for carrying out various day to day administrative and reporting tasks.

You will work closely with multiple cross-functional teams to understand their requirements, optimise query performance, ensure data integrity and security, and provide valuable reports and visualisations.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
- Provide DBA support including:

- Setting up new SQL Server instances, upgrade/migrate databases following current procedure.
- Back-up and recovery of database
- Responding to incidents and troubleshooting issues
- Managing new users, granting necessary permission, and running established audit processes
- Provide support to stakeholders and ensure maximum uptime for the client.
- Ensure high levels of security on the database environment.
- Participate in departmental projects as required.
- Undertake diagnosis and problem resolution tasks in relation to DB outages.
- Participate in daily monitoring and health check tasks to ensure the availability of the db system.
- Develop clear technical documentation as required.
- Change/ incident/CMDB management.

**Qualifications and Education**
- Formal qualification in computer science, information systems, or equivalent work experience in relevant stream.

**How to Apply**
Applicants are required to provide up to a one-page summary (no more than 500 words) that outlines skills, knowledge, and experience and why you should be considered for this vacancy. You should take into consideration the position overview (including any detailed position specific requirements) when drafting your response. Where possible include specific relevant examples of your work.

The APS work level standards accommodate the diversity of roles across the APS and are structured to clearly differentiate between the work expected (i.e. responsibilities and duties) at each classification level.

In the eRecruit (the department’s online recruitment system) you will also need to:

- upload a Curriculum Vitae
- provide contact details for 2 Referees.

**Eligibility**

**Citizenship** - to be eligible for employment with the Department, you must be an Australian Citizen or, in limited circumstances, in the process of obtaining it.

**Please refer to the Job Information Pack for more information about the role.**

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