Database Administrator

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The Opportunity:
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) seeks a professional, innovative, and detailed individual for our Database Administrator position. If you are looking for an opportunity to manage and organize SELs SQL databases, while setting the stage for new responsibilities in this position, then we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity! SELs corporate office is located in Eastern Washington where you'll enjoy an unmatched quality of life. Enjoy the smaller town life: country space, freedom from traffic, easy access to recreational activities in nearby mountains, rivers, and forests, as well as great schools and universities
This position is located in Pullman, WA.
Database Administrator
Responsibilities:
Design and maintain database platforms.
Implement and enforce standards and controls for database systems.
Maintain and optimize tables and schemas, including indexes.
Manage database replication and data transfer.
Administer database security.
Monitor and tune database performance.
Work with Infrastructure to optimize systems and storage for database performance needs.
Perform change management for database systems and content.
Document schemas, relationships and data flow.
Perform capacity planning for database systems.
Verify database backup and restore processes.
Deploy and upgrade database software.
Provide database consulting throughout the organization as needed.
Act as liaison between Infrastructure and Business Systems group for database needs.
Manage multiple project assignments and timelines based on priorities from different groups.
Stay abreast of industry developments appropriate to computer services.
Follow and improve Information Services area processes.
Qualifications:
Four year CS or MIS degree or equivalent of education and relevant experience
Three or more years of experience of SQL database administration as primary role
Experience managing databases in a Windows environment
Experience administering replication and clustering
Experience in writing and maintaining scripts
Ability to work with multiple groups to solve issues
Strong writing, speaking, documentation and training skills
Ability to learn new skills and assume new responsibilities
Background check results satisfactory to SEL
Negative drug test result(s)
Preferred Qualifications:
Application development experience using and building SQL databases
Experience managing databases in Unix environments
Experience managing MySQL databases
SAN database storage experience
Multi-Value database, i.e. Unidata, Universe or Pick
To Apply For This Position:
We ask all candidates to submit their resume through our website at ****If your qualifications and experience match any of our current openings, please submit your resume for that position so that you may be considered immediately.
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SEL is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
An Award Winning Company
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) has earned a reputation for quality, reliability, integrity, and service. This has enabled us to expand within both the electric utility and industrial markets to include international customers and OEM markets.
In 2012, SEL earned a spot on the FORTUNE Magazine 100 Best Companies to Work For list. This prestigious ranking celebrates the SEL 100% employee-owned culture as one of the best in the country. SEL has received numerous awards, including the Puget Sound Business Journal’s 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Washington State (1999 through 2003, 2010, and 2011), Inc. Magazine’s 500|5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies (1990, 1991, 2008, 2010, and 2011), the Association of Washington Businesses (AWB) Manufacturing, Workplace, and Community Service Award (1998 through 2010), the Washington State Quality Achievement Award (WSQA), and the Washington Secretary of State Corporations for Communities Award (2010). Puget Sound Business Journal has also ranked SEL as one of Washington State’s Top 100 Largest Private Companies every year since 2007.
In an independent survey conducted by Newton-Evans Research Company, SEL ranks first in all performance categories including: technology, features, security against hackers, web/internet information ability, technical service and support, maintenance cost, relay setting PC software, and price. Since 2006, SEL has also held the elite VPP STAR status certification from Washington State Department of Labor & Industries. Less than 2,000 companies in the U.S. earn the VPP STAR status for outstanding safety and health programs.
Apply Your Talent. Make a Difference. Enjoy the Rewards.
Are you ready to be part of a highly motivated and well-equipped team? Are you a quick learner who likes new challenges? If so, then you are ready to join us at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories.
Dr. Edmund O. Schweitzer III delivered the first commercial digital protective relay in 1984. Under his technical, managerial, and fiscal leadership, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories has expanded to become a leader in the power industry, employing over 3,700 people world-wide. Dr. Schweitzer understands and supports the need for investing in employees. In return, he expects that we hire only the best, most highly motivated team members, and that we deliver simple, reliable, and cost-effective products and solutions.
Our products and solutions must be simple and reliable because they protect the largest, most complicated machine on earth: the electric power grid. Blackouts in the U.S. and Canada remind us that reliable electric power is crucial to our society. SEL provides systems, services, and products for the protection, monitoring, control, automation, and metering of utility and industrial electric systems worldwide.
Our company and our products exist to make electric power safer, more reliable, and more economical. That purpose has made SEL very successful, and the company is managed with sound fiscal judgment and that purpose in mind. Profits are reinvested to fuel the companys growth.
In addition to offering a variety of challenges in a supportive, stable environment, SEL shares its success with employees by giving them stock in the company. All employees earn stock at the same rate. And because only employees can own SEL stock, the stock price is not subject to market volatility. Even when the stock market value has plunged, SEL stock consistently increased in value.
Employee Testimonial Video:
SEL employees describe the opportunity and rewards of a career working at a 100% employee owned company!
****Benefits:
SEL has an excellent benefits package including medical, dental, and vision for all regular full-time employees and their entire family; long-term disability and life insurance; education assistance programs; a very generous employee stock ownership plan; 401K; flexible benefit account; and an outstanding work environment.
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Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
Pullman, WA 99163
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