Staff Database Administrator
Fortive Denver, Colorado, United States
Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing · 10,001+ employees
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About the role
Lead the design, administration, performance, security, and modernization of SQL Server and Oracle database platforms supporting critical SaaS applications across AWS and Azure. Establish database standards and architecture, implement high availability and disaster recovery, automate deployments and operations, and provide technical leadership, mentoring, and on-call incident support.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires 10 or more years managing enterprise database platforms, with expert SQL Server administration and experience supporting Oracle and PostgreSQL. Candidates should have strong performance tuning, high availability, cloud database, backup and recovery, scripting, and automation experience; a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Data Engineering, or equivalent experience, is specified.
Full description
As a Staff Database Administrator (DBA) at Intelex Technologies, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, performance, and security of the data platforms underpinning our mission-critical SaaS applications. You will serve as a technical leader for the design, implementation, performance tuning, high availability, and security of our database infrastructure in global regions across AWS and Azure clouds. Working within the Cloud Operations team, you will:
- Serve as the technical authority for database platforms, establishing standards, roadmaps, and operational best practices across the organization.
- Lead cross-functional database initiatives and provide technical direction across engineering, cloud operations, and platform teams.
- Influence platform architecture decisions through collaboration with engineering leadership and enterprise architects.
- Drive database modernization initiatives, including platform standardization, automation, and cloud adoption.
- Mentor DBAs and engineers through design reviews, knowledge sharing, training, and documentation.
- Develop observability standards using monitoring, telemetry, and alerting platforms to proactively identify and resolve issues.
Responsibilities and Deliverables:
Database Administration & Architecture
- Design, implement, and optimize databases across MS SQL Server, and Oracle environments.
- Participate in architecture/design reviews, ensuring database structures align with application needs and performance goals.
- Define and maintain best practices for schema design, indexing strategies, and query optimization.
- Participate in and help drive database design governance, standards, and review processes.
Performance Tuning & Scalability
- Conduct proactive query tuning, execution plan analysis, and indexing strategies to optimize database performance.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve performance bottlenecks across MS SQL Server, and Oracle.
- Implement partitioning, replication, and caching to improve data access and efficiency.
- Design and implement automated database deployment and migration frameworks.
High Availability, Replication & Disaster Recovery
- Design and implement HA/DR solutions for all supported databases, including MS Clustering, Always On Availability Groups, and Oracle Data Guard.
- Perform capacity planning and ensure proper backup and recovery strategies are in place.
- Automate and test failover and recovery processes to minimize downtime.
Security & Compliance
- Implement role-based access control (RBAC), encryption, auditing, and compliance policies across all database environments.
- Ensure adherence to SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA security standards.
- Collaborate with security teams to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities.
DevOps, CI/CD, & Automation
- Integrate database changes into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring automated schema migrations and rollbacks.
- Use Terraform or other IaC tools for database provisioning and configuration management.
- Automate routine maintenance tasks, monitoring, and alerting using New Relic and PagerDuty or similar.
Incident Response & On-Call Support
- Participate in a rotational on-call schedule supporting critical production database services.
- Conduct root cause analysis and implement long-term fixes for database-related issues.
Qualifications & Skills Required:
- 10+ years of experience managing enterprise database platforms, including expert-level SQL Server administration and experience supporting Oracle and PostgreSQL environments.
- Expertise in database performance tuning, query optimization, and execution plan analysis.
- Strong experience with replication, clustering, and high-availability configurations.
- Hands-on experience with cloud databases in AWS or Azure (RDS, Azure SQL, Oracle Cloud, etc.).
- Solid experience with backup strategies, disaster recovery planning, and failover testing.
- Proficiency in T-SQL, PL/SQL, and PostgreSQL SQL scripting.
- Experience automating database tasks using PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or Data Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Fortive Corporation Overview
Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.
We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.
We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.
At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.
At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.
At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating.
Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.
About Intelex
Trusted Since 1992, Intelex Technologies, ULC. is a global leader in the development and support of software solutions for Environment, Health, Safety and Quality (EHSQ) programs. Our scalable, web-based software provides clients with unprecedented flexibility in managing, tracking and reporting on essential corporate information. Intelex software easily integrates with common ERP systems like SAP and PeopleSoft creating a seamless solution for enterprise-wide information management. Intelex’s friendly, knowledgeable staff ensures our almost 1400 clients and over 3.5 million users from companies across the globe get the most out of our groundbreaking, user-friendly software solutions. Visit www.intelex.com to learn more.
We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer
Fortive Corporation and all Fortive Companies are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics protected by law. Fortive and all Fortive Companies are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment application process, please contact us at applyassistance@fortive.com.
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