Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. McKesson is an impact-driven healthcare company delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. The Senior Database Administrator will support enterprise PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server environments across on-premises and cloud platforms, ensuring database availability, performance, security, and reliability. The role partners with development, infrastructure, and support teams to optimize systems, troubleshoot issues, maintain disaster recovery capabilities, and support operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Design, install, configure, maintain, and support PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server databases across on-premises and Azure environments
- Monitor database health and performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement tuning and optimization solutions to improve reliability and efficiency
- Develop, maintain, and validate backup and disaster recovery processes to ensure data availability and business continuity
- Administer database security, including user access, permissions, auditing, and compliance with company security standards and regulatory requirements
- Implement and support high-availability solutions, including Always On Availability Groups, replication technologies, and failover capabilities
- Troubleshoot and resolve database-related issues involving performance, connectivity, availability, corruption, and application integrations
- Partner with development teams to optimize database schemas, stored procedures, queries, and overall database design
- Develop and maintain database architecture documentation, operational procedures, and system standards
- Perform capacity planning and forecasting to support future growth and evolving business needs
- Participate in the on-call rotation to provide support for critical database systems and production incidents
Skills
- * Degree or equivalent and typically requires 7+ years of relevant, progressive database administration experience supporting production database environments
- * Strong expertise administering PostgreSQL and/or Microsoft SQL Server in enterprise environments
- * Experience with database installation, configuration, performance tuning, security administration, backup and recovery, and high availability solutions
- * Proficiency with PL/pgSQL and/or T-SQL, including query tuning and optimization
- * Experience troubleshooting complex database issues and implementing effective long-term solutions
- * Experience supporting databases hosted in cloud environments, preferably Microsoft Azure
- * Experience using automation and scripting technologies such as PowerShell or Python
- * Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
- * Ability to work independently while partnering effectively with cross-functional technical teams
- * Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a fulltime basis without the need for employer support or sponsorship now or in the future. This includes having the legal right to work in the United States without the need for McKesson support or sponsorship for any immigration related employment authorization (e.g., H1B, O1, E3, H1B1, TN, F1 OPT, F1 STEM OPT, F1 CPT, etc.) now or in the future
- * Experience supporting additional relational database management systems such as Oracle or MySQL
- * Familiarity with cloud database platforms and managed services, including Azure SQL Database, AWS RDS, or Google AlloyDB
- * Experience implementing database automation and operational efficiencies through scripting and tooling
- * Exposure to database monitoring and observability solutions
- * Experience supporting high-availability and disaster recovery architectures in cloud and hybrid environments
- * Experience working within healthcare or other regulated environments
Benefits
- Fully remote work arrangement
- An annual bonus may be offered
- Long-term incentive opportunities may be offered
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