• Responsible for providing day-to-day support and maintenance for key databases and services of our enterprise application platform
  
  
• Responsible for investigating potential problems and issues raised by business users; this includes being on a on-call rotation and carrying a pager as needed
  
  
• Monitor database events and proactively optimize system performance
  
  
• Work with the team to automate reactive procedures where possible, and to promote rapid response to known issues
  
  
• Work with other teams to promote changes to production and other environments
  
  
• Accountable for maintaining database configurations in compliance with established best practices
  
  
• Oversee data fixes for business issues or to address application issues
  
  
• Accountable for proper backup and disaster recovery procedures
  
  
• Work in conjunction with other IT, application development, and business groups to understand functionality, scalability, performance, security, and integration requirements from the database perspective
  
  
• Develop and maintain an in depth understanding of the database architecture and the general application functionality used to maintain data integrity

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