Senior Database Administrator (Open Rank)

Job Summary

Are you a database expert who thrives in a collaborative, mission-driven environment? Do you enjoy solving complex technical challenges and supporting data-driven decision making for a world-class medical campus? If you're passionate about building and securing enterprise data systems, we want to meet you! Join Information Strategy and Services (ISS) as our Senior Database Administrator, where you'll play a key role in designing, maintaining, and optimizing our campus data warehouse and analytics platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, deploy and manage Azure SQL databases in both operational and analytical environments.
• Monitor database health, performance, and security and ensure compliance with organizational standards.
• Collaborate with data analysts, data modelers, and engineers to support data lake, business intelligence and analytic needs.
• Create and manage database objects (schemas, tables, views, procedures).
• Investigate, diagnose and remediate databases by recommending indexes, partitions, and other techniques to optimize data structures and improve query performance.
• Participate in database migrations and refresh non-production environments with production data.
• Assist in developing automation strategies and techniques for deployment and management.
• Develop and maintain documentation for databases and cloud configurations, policies, and procedures.
• Contribute to cloud native backup, fail-over, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Support production on-call rotation for database administration.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Information systems, or a closely related field.
• 4 years of professional or high-level technical work experience may be substituted for the Bachelor's degree. An associate's degree with two years of relevant work experience may be substituted for the bachelor's degree.
• Senior Level: 2 years of MS SQL Server Database Administration experience.
• Principal Level: 3-5 years of MS SQL Server Database Administration experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in support of 24x7, five-nines, enterprise production environment.
• Experience in public higher education, state or federal government.
• Operational Data Store, Data Warehouse, Data Lake and/or Business Intelligence ecosystem experience.
• Experience in data visualization tools such as PowerBI and Tableau.
• Experience in managing an automated database environment via CI/CD Pipelines, API integrations and Terraform Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience in Oracle Database Management Systems 19c and above.

Benefits and Perks

The University of Colorado offers an excellent benefits package including:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance.
• Disability and Life insurance.
• Retirement 401(a) Plan: Employer contributes 10% of your gross pay.
• Generous Paid Time Off: 22 vacation days, 15 sick days, and 10 holidays per year.
• Tuition Benefit for CU campuses.
• ECO Pass for reduced rate RTD Bus and light rail service.

Work Environment

This position offers a flexible hybrid work arrangement. While most responsibilities can be performed remotely, we value in-person collaboration and ask for a minimum on-campus presence once a month, with a preference for three days per week.

How to Apply

To apply, visit the official university career portal: Apply Here

Please submit a letter of interest, resume, and a list of three to five professional references. For best consideration, apply by 6/21/2026.