Database Administrator

Job Description

Responsibilities

· Assisting in database design

· Monitoring performance and managing parameters to provide fast responses to front-end users;

· Mapping out the conceptual design for a planned database;

· Considering both back-end organization of data and front-end accessibility for end-users

· Refining the physical design to meet system storage requirements;

· Writing database documentation, including data standards, procedures and definitions for the data dictionary

· Controlling access permissions and privileges;

· Developing, managing and testing back-up and recovery plans;

· Ensuring that storage and archiving procedures are functioning correctly;

· Setting up and testing new database and data handling systems

· Sustaining the security and integrity of data

· Creating complex query definitions that allow data to be extracted

· Optimizing complex query definitions that allow data to be extracted