Database Administrator

Job Description

Database Administrator

Job Description

Launched in 2004, the Broad Institute is a non-profit biomedical and genomic research organization spanning Harvard, MIT, and Harvard-affiliated hospitals.

Home to more than 3,000 scientists and staff, Broad researchers generate on the order of 20 terabytes of sequence data every day to improve human health by using genomics to advance our understanding of the biology and treatment of human disease, and to help lay the groundwork for a new generation of therapies.

Broad Information Technology Services (BITS) is looking for a database administrator who is strong at building out replication and optimizing throughput on on-premise and cloud hardware.

The ideal candidate is a diligent and creative problem solver, an enthusiastic learner and energized by technical challenges and high-impact work.

Characteristic Duties (both on-premise and cloud environments)

Design, manage and administer on-premise and cloud databases, including base definition, structure, documentation, long-range requirements, operational guidelines, protection and architecture

Ensure accuracy and completeness of data across the organization’s databases

Define and specify database access, structure and functional capabilities

Formulate and monitor policies, procedures and standards relating to database management

Optimize database configuration and access

Analyze, tune and sustain capacity and performance requirements, resolve database performance and capacity issues

Performs database backup and recovery, restore and recover corrupted databases. And maintain sound backup and recovery policies and procedures

Install, configure and upgrade Oracle, MySQL and MongoDB server software and related products.

Monitor and troubleshoot problems to ensure continuous operation of database servers and related functions

Interface with Oracle Corporation for technical support

Develop database utilities and automated reporting

Desired Experience

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or equivalent experience

3-5 years experience administering Oracle databases, or recent training on Oracle best practices

Experience with MySQL and MongoDB administration

Linux administration experience, especially in relation to database deployments on Linux

VMWare concepts and experiences running a database in a virtualized environment

At least 1 year of enterprise Cloud, DevOps, and management of Relational Databases

Exposure to web-based client development environments such as APEX, Python, HTML, Java or JavaScript preferred

Experience in any of the following is desirable : bioinformatics, laboratory information systems (LIMS), and industrial automation

Required Qualifications

Understanding of Agile / Scrum practices

Ability to multitask, manage time and follow through with assignments