Sr. Database Administrator – NPS

Nelnet Business Services (NBS) a division of Nelnet Inc. provides payment technology and education services to more than 1200 higher education institutions nearly 12000 K-12 schools and millions of individual students families and supporters across the globe. Our culture of service enables us to form long-lasting and trusted partnerships while our focus on creativity and innovative solutions empowers our customer communities to thrive.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Researches designs implements and manages enterprise database systems based on business and application

  requirements.

  Leads complex database migrations upgrades and transformation initiatives.

  Designs and supports high availability and disaster recovery solutions.

  Monitors analyzes and improves database performance scalability and reliability.

  Ensures database security compliance backup and recovery strategies are properly implemented and maintained.

  Recommends improvements to database architecture standards and operational processes.

  Owns the architecture health performance and operational reliability of the enterprise Reporting Database.

  Manages the CDC pipelines health reliability and daily operations.

  Manages data truncation processes to meet retention requirements.

  Establishes database change governance across PostgreSQL and SQL Server.

  Defines and audits database access governance and least privilege.

  Reviews complex high-risk or performance-sensitive schema and query changes.

  Guides engineering teams on database solution design and best practices.

  Supports production systems including participation in on-call support as required.

  Continues to update technical knowledge and stay current on emerging database technologies and AI-enabled operational

  tools.

EDUCATION:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems or a related discipline or equivalent experience supported by relevant technical certifications and demonstrated expertise in enterprise database platforms.

EXPERIENCE

• 7 years of experience in database administration and architecture.
• Experience with Aurora Postgres Microsoft SQL Server 2019 platforms.
• Hands-on experience managing databases in cloud environments.
• Experience designing high availability and disaster recovery solutions.
• Exposure to data streaming or CDC concepts is a plus.
• Familiarity with database schema migration tools such as Liquibase is a plus.

COMPETENCIES SKILLS / KNOWLEDGE / ABILITIES

• Strong technical competency in database architecture performance tuning and security.
• Logical analytical and solution-oriented approach to problem solving.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively across cross-functional teams including engineering architecture and infrastructure.
• Experience with AWS RDS and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.
• Knowledge of database security hardening practices.
• Experience with database monitoring alerting and incident response.
• Ability to automate operations via SQL scripting and related tooling.
• Ability to design new database clusters and high availability configurations.
• Focus on continuous improvement and delivering reliable scalable database solutions.

**Pay Range for this role is - $120000 DOE

Our benefits package includes medical dental vision HSA and FSA generous earned time off 401K/student loan repayment life insurance & AD&D insurance employee assistance program employee stock purchase program tuition reimbursement performance-based incentive pay short- and long-term disability and a robust wellness program. Click here to learn more about our benefits: Benefits & Perks - Nelnet Inc

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