OPIS Senior Database Administrator

Job Description:About Our Organization:

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world’s largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America’s largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron’s, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Investor’s Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

About the Team:

Our Technology team drives the evolution of our Technology, Engineering, Data, Product and User Experience functions. With a keen focus on delivering cutting-edge solutions, we shape the digital landscape for our customers, readers, and users. From revolutionizing visuals to optimizing tools and harnessing the power of data, mobile, video, and social platforms, our team is committed to providing a seamless and immersive experience across all touchpoints. Collaborating closely with our newsrooms and strategic partners, we spearhead the development of groundbreaking products and technologies.

About the Role:

OPIS, a Dow Jones company, provides price transparency across the global fuel supply chain, including the Spot, Wholesale Rack and Retail markets. The OPIS Cloud Operations team supports the OPIS business by ensuring the overall operational performance, security, and reliability of OPIS’ cloud environments.  The team works closely with the OPIS Product development teams with a focus on high availability and continuous operation, resource allocation and monitoring, compliance, and financial management.  It provides guidance, defines guardrails and ensures compliance with corporate, and business unit, as well as industry, best practices and standards.  The team is responsible for the configuration and management of the operational infrastructure of the OPIS cloud environments including the OPIS database systems for OPIS applications. This role is a part of the OPIS Cloud Operations team, working with OPIS Product team’s software engineers and database developers.  As a Senior Database Administrator, 

You Will:

• Oversee and manage OPIS database systems (MS SQL and IBM DB2) and their infrastructure to ensure optimal performance, availability, and security. 

• Manage database and database objects design, configuration, and testing activities to ensure the performance of the databases in support of OPIS applications from development to production.  

• Monitor system health, database availability and performance, diagnose and resolve technical issues, resolve database performance and capacity issues, replication and other distributed data issues, and implement proactive measures to prevent disruptions.

• Plan and execute database system housekeeping, such as tuning, indexing, etc. and upgrades, data migration, and security patches.

• Design database backup, archiving, and storage strategy.  As well as develop and implement OPIS database systems disaster recovery plans and procedures.

• Collaborate with OPIS product teams to leverage our database systems in order to design optimal solutions, and support the development and deployment of new systems and products.

• Provide advanced database technical support and offer timely and effective solutions to complex challenges.

• Create and maintain database standards and policies and comprehensive documentation for database system configurations, processes, and procedures using Atlassian Confluence and Azure DevOps.

You Have:

• BS in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or related field preferred with 4 years of relevant experience, or 7 years of relevant experience

• Proven expertise in administering Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2 databases, as well as highly available database technologies (Microsoft Replication, Log Shipping, Mirroring, Failover Clustering, IBM DB2 HADR)

• Proven experience administering Linux and Windows Server operating systems, and AWS cloud services

• Strong understanding of cloud database technologies, cloud computing concepts, and networking protocols

• Database Certifications (SQL Server, DB2) preferred

• Programming and Automation Experience (SQL Scripting, PowerShell, Python, etc.) 

Our Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Plans

• Paid Time Off

• Retirement Plans

• Comprehensive Insurance Plans

• Lifestyle programs & Wellness Resources

• Education Benefits

• Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support

• Commuter Transit Program

• Subscription Discounts

• Employee Referral Program

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Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. EEO/Disabled/Vets. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at [email protected]. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.

Business Area:

Dow Jones - Technology

Job Category:

Data Analytics/Warehousing & Business Intelligence

Union Status:

Non-Union role

Pay Range: 120,000 - 150,000

We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.

Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.

For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce..