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Delta Air Lines, Inc. Senior Database Administrator in Minneapolis, Minnesota

How you'll help us Keep Climbing (overview & key responsibilities)

Delta Air Lines, Inc. has multiple openings for Senior Database Administrators in Bloomington, Minnesota.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for all technical aspects of data analysis and database management, as well as providing basic project leadership, direction, and mentoring for junior members of the team.

  • Responsible for understanding, configuring, and managing database administration tools.

  • Research technology solutions and provide recommendations for implementation verbally or in writing to leadership or a broader group.

  • Lead root cause analysis efforts when major incidents occur.

  • Provide database support for business applications and schedule back up jobs for user databases.

  • Provide access control (password resets/account creation/deletion) and check IP compliance (violation report review, compliance updates, and compliance set ups).

  • Perform data life cycling and data replication activities.

  • Research connectivity issues and recurring errors in application databases.

  • Respond to database alerts and take appropriate actions.

  • Provide escalation for Level 1 and 2 Technical 24x7 support.

  • Create databases. Perform performance tuning and troubleshooting for databases.

  • Perform application database maintenance and provide technical assistance to users.

  • Manage and facilitate database object changes as part of the Software Development Lifecycle.

  • Ensure that metrics and alerts are properly in place to meet monitoring requirements.

  • Perform application database and OS scripting.

  • Review Information Protection compliance reports and notifications for individual databases and internal processes including compliance updates and compliance set ups.

  • Perform database recovery from logs, hot and cold backups, Export/Imports, and Disaster Recovery. Perform database creation, decommissioning, and database updates/migrations to higher/lower versions or cross platform migrations.

  • Monitor and report existing database Instance, Database, and Server activities for CPU, Memory, and Cach. and Log performance.

  • Recommend effective resource utilization/emergency recovery procedures.

  • Perform Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery activities during Business Continuity Plan events.

  • Plan, schedule, and help facilitate operating system software updates and patches (including third party tools) using change management and release management processes.

  • Implement database security, auditing features, and periodic reviews.

  • Conduct root cause analysis for repeated incidents.

  • Perform heterogeneous database interface deployment and support for various data interfaces with applications, Middleware interfaces and functionality deployment with database architecture.

  • Conduct team training and be responsible for resource management.

  • Research new technologies to address operations reliability and compliance.

  • Telecommuting permitted up to 50% of the time or 2-3 days a week.

What you need to succeed (minimum qualifications)

  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Information Systems Technologies, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field, and 5 years of experience in database administration or related.

Must have work experience in:

  • RedHat Linux versions 5, 6, and 7 on x86-64 platform;

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Oracle GoldenGate versions 12 or 19;

  • Major vendor backup and recovery tools including Veritas NetBackup, Cohesity, or Actifio AGM;

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Oracle Clusterware/Grid Infrastructure, VCS Clustering, or IBM DB2 HADR;

  • Korn, Bash Shell Scripting, or Windows PowerShell; and

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Monitoring tools including Oracle Enterprise Manager.

What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications)

  • Airline experience preferred

Benefits and Perks to Help You Keep Climbing

Our culture is rooted in a shared dedication to living our values - Care, Integrity, Resilience, Servant Leadership, and Teamwork - every day, in everything we do. At Delta, our people are our success. At the heart of what we offer is our focus on Sharing Success with Delta employees. Exploring a career at Delta gives you a chance to see the world while earning great compensation and benefits to help you keep climbing along the way.

Why You'll Love Delta

  • Competitive salary, industry-leading profit sharing program, and performance incentives

  • 401(k) with generous company contributions up to 9%

  • Paid time off including vacation, holidays, paid personal time, maternity and parental leave

  • Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life benefits

  • Family care assistance through fertility support, surrogacy and adoption assistance, lactation support, subsidized back-up care, and programs that help with loved ones in all stages

  • Holistic Wellbeing programs to support physical, emotional, social, and financial health, including access to an employee assistance program offering support for you and anyone in your household, free financial coaching, and extensive resources supporting mental health

  • Domestic and International space-available flight privileges for employees and eligible family members

  • World-wide partnerships to engage in community service and innovative goals created to focus on sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint

  • Recognition rewards and awards through the platform Unstoppable Together

  • Business Resource Groups created to connect employees with common interests to promote inclusion, provide perspective and help implement strategies

  • Access to over 500 discounts, specialty savings and voluntary benefits through Deltaperks such as car and hotel rentals and auto, home, and pet insurance, legal services, and childcare

Delta Air Lines, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer and provides reasonable accommodation in its application process for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you are a qualified individual, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to access job openings through this site, apply for jobs through Delta’s online system, or at any point in the selection process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please click here

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