Seeking a role where your skills ensure the reliability of mission-critical databases? As a Senior Database Administrator at Spectrum, you will design, implement, and maintain robust production and non-production databases across on-prem (Oracle) and cloud/NoSQL platforms (MongoDB, Cassandra, Amazon DocumentDB, AWS RDS), supporting business continuity and data accessibility. Your technical acumen and mentorship will strengthen Spectrum's database operations, driving effective solutions across our technology landscape.
How You'll Make an Impact
- Perform installations and configurations of grid infrastructure, databases, clients etc. Design and maintains access and security administration, backup and recovery strategies on Database Management Systems
- Support multiple services and multiple databases of medium complexity with multiple concurrent users, ensuring control, integrity and accessibility of data
- Design, install, configure and maintain High Availability (RAC, RAC One Node, Data Guard etc.) Database solutions
- Expertise in setup using OEM as a monitoring and diagnostics tool and identifies/resolves the performance issues
- Troubleshoot alerts (alert log, Jobs, Disk Group, Tablespace etc.) and performance issues
- Perform capacity planning of Oracle server environment and provides recommendations to management to sustain business growth
- Design, implement, maintain Disaster Recovery (DR) methodologies and create documentation
- Gather business requirements and designs, implement multiple projects along with the production support
- Create standard operational procedures and templates
- Act as mentor for Database Administrators and Associate Database Administrators
- Perform research and provide plans to remediate complex business problems
- Assist the development teams to improve database design and procedures on PL/SQL best practices etc
Working Conditions
- Office environment
- 24x7 on-call support
What You'll Bring to Spectrum
Required Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent work experience
Experience
- 6+ years of experience working with Oracle and various database management systems in testing, implementation, maintenance and administration in a multiple platform environment
Skills
- Ability to read, write, speak and understand English
- Demonstrated knowledge of database architecture and its implementation, understanding of best practices in maintaining medium to large scale Oracle database systems
- Demonstrated knowledge of PL/SQL programming language, Change Management procedures
- Demonstrated knowledge of Instance, database and query tuning to improve the performance of the database/application
- Demonstrated understanding of SAN technologies related to SQL server disk layouts; Windows/Linux/Solaris operating systems and shell scripting
- Ability to communicate orally and in writing in a clear and straightforward manner with all levels of management and company personnel
- Ability to organize, prioritize, and handle multiple projects and tasks
- Ability to show judgment and initiative and to accomplish job duties while working under pressure
- Ability to use personal computer and software applications (i.e. word processing, spreadsheet, etc.)
- Ability to work independently or with others to resolve problems, handle requests or situations
- Ability to effectively consult with department managers and leaders
Preferred Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience with Oracle and other relational database management systems in testing, implementation, maintenance, and administration in a multiple platform environment, including 2+ years of hands-on experience with cloud/NoSQL platforms (MongoDB, Cassandra, Amazon DocumentDB, AWS RDS)
- Support multiple services and databases of medium complexity across relational and cloud/NoSQL platforms (Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra, Amazon DocumentDB, AWS RDS) with multiple concurrent users, ensuring control, integrity, and accessibility of data
- Design, install, configure, and maintain High Availability (RAC, RAC One Node, Data Guard, etc.) database solutions on-prem, and cloud-native replication/failover (e.g., MongoDB replica sets, Cassandra multi-DC replication, RDS Multi-AZ)
- Monitor and tune performance using both traditional tools (OEM) and cloud-native monitoring (CloudWatch, MongoDB Atlas/Ops Manager, DataStax OpsCenter), identifying and resolving performance issues
- Demonstrated knowledge of cloud database provisioning, scaling, and security configuration (AWS RDS, MongoDB, Cassandra, or Amazon DocumentDB)
- AWS Certified Database - Specialty or equivalent cloud/NoSQL certification (e.g., MongoDB Certified DBA)
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This job posting will remain open until 2026-09-25 01:41 PM (UTC) and will be extended if necessary.
The base pay for this position generally is between
$78,900.00 and $139,500.00. The actual compensation offered will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. We comply with local wage minimums and also, certain positions are eligible for additional forms of other incentive-based compensation such as bonuses.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- 6+ years of experience working with Oracle and database management systems in testing, implementation, maintenance, and administration across multiple platforms
- Knowledge of database architecture and best practices for medium- to large-scale Oracle database systems
- Knowledge of PL/SQL programming and change management procedures
- Experience with database instance, database, and query tuning
- Understanding of SAN technologies, SQL Server disk layouts, Windows, Linux, Solaris, and shell scripting
- Ability to communicate clearly with management and company personnel
- Ability to organize, prioritize, and manage multiple projects and tasks
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively to resolve problems and handle requests
- Ability to consult effectively with department managers and leaders
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with cloud and NoSQL platforms including MongoDB, Cassandra, Amazon DocumentDB, or AWS RDS
- Experience supporting relational, cloud, and NoSQL databases with multiple concurrent users
- Experience designing and maintaining high-availability and cloud-native replication or failover solutions
- Experience monitoring and tuning databases using Oracle Enterprise Manager, CloudWatch, MongoDB Atlas or Ops Manager, and DataStax OpsCenter
- Knowledge of cloud database provisioning, scaling, and security configuration
- AWS Certified Database Specialty, MongoDB Certified DBA, or equivalent certification
Spectrum Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — A dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match, alongside an additional company retirement contribution for many employees, is positioned as a standout pillar of total rewards. Stock purchase opportunities with company-matched RSUs add a longer-term wealth component.
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Affordable Benefits — Medical, dental, and vision coverage is paired with the employer absorbing annual premium increases for many years, helping keep employee premiums lower over time. Health care accounts and mental-health resources further support cost control and access.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Tuition-free education through Guild and up to $10,000 annually for approved external programs reduce out-of-pocket learning costs. Free or discounted Spectrum internet/TV/voice and sizable mobile discounts provide everyday savings beyond core insurance.
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What We Do
Our Product and Technology team creates, develops, and operates the nation’s fastest mobile service, most reliable internet service, most viewed live TV app, and the most advanced WiFi, serving nearly 100 million users and 500 million devices. We are transforming the next era of connectivity and entertainment experiences together. The experience within Spectrum’s Product and Technology team is unmatched and there are opportunities to grow your career as a designer, architect, engineer, developer, operator, or data scientist. We are creative, disciplined, hard-working, complex-problem solvers that believe in collaborating to deliver the highest quality customer experience.
Why Work With Us
At Spectrum, we continually refine technology, process, and structure. We are committed to delivering a superior network infrastructure, the most competitive products, and highly rated customer experiences. Our talented team of experts deploys technology solutions and builds systems and tools for our employees to provide exceptional operations.
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