The mission of the New York City Police Department is to enhance the quality of life in New York City by working in partnership with the community to enforce the law, preserve peace, protect the people, reduce fear, and maintain order. The NYPD strives to foster a safe and fair city by incorporating Neighborhood Policing into all facets of Department operations, and solve the problems that create crime and disorder through an interdependent relationship between the people and its police, and by pioneering strategic innovation.

The Information Technology Services Division (ITSD) supports the Department by acquiring, distributing, installing and maintaining Local Area Networks, personal computers, mainframe computers, software, and data communications networks. ITSD also plans and coordinates the implementation of advanced technology.

The MS SQL Server DBA role requires a service oriented mentality, high sense of ownership of the problems and requests assigned, focus on managing and resolving issues, establishing and maintaining communication with customers, initiating and performing changes on production systems and proactively escalating any issues that cannot be resolved within the established timeframes.

The selected Certified IT Administrator (DB) will be responsible for:

- Performing SQL Server database administration functions, including maintenance of multiple environments (development, testing and production), patching, troubleshooting, SSIS &SSRS deployments, and security management.
- Monitoring and analyzing data platforms to ensure database is available, secure, healthy, efficient and recoverable as per expectations
- Building and managing HA and DR architectures like Clustering, Replication, and Always on.
- Implementing and managing physical databases of mission critical systems capacity planning to determine future storage needs.
- Collaborating with application owners to develop a seamless process to migrate their schema and data to data platform.
- Partner with development and quality assurance teams to deliver robust, quality, on-time solutions.

Professional/Vendor Certification(s) in database administration that is required for the position to be filled. In addition, you must have one of the following:
1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university, and two years of satisfactory fulltime (not classroom based) experience in database administration. Experience must include database design, configuration, installation, troubleshooting, integration, performance monitoring, maintenance, enhancement, and security management;

2. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and six years of satisfactory full-time (not classroom based) information technology experience (IT) of which at least two years must have been database administration experience as described in "1" above; OR

3. A satisfactory equivalent of education and/or experience equivalent to “1” or “2” above. Undergraduate education may be substituted for experience on the basis that 30 undergraduate semester credits from
an accredited college or university is equivalent to 6 months of information technology experience, but may not be substituted for the required database administration experience. A masters degree in computer science or a related field from an accredited college or university may substitute for one year of database administration experience. However, all candidates must have at least one year of satisfactory full-time (not classroom based) database administration experience as described in "1" above.

Preferred skills include: -Strong understanding of database structures, principles, and practices. -Working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server 2014/2016/2017/2019. -Proficiency in SQL Server installation, configuration, pacthing and database back-up/recovery. -Knowledge with Windows server, Secutity delegation, Storage components. -Solid knowledge of SQL Server HADR Solution, Data Replication, SSIS and SSRS. -Expert experience in platform monitoring, detect and troubleshoot SQL Server related CPU, memory, I/O, disk space and other resource contention. -Experienced in database performance tuning and maintemance with outstanding troubleshooting capabilities. -Ability to conduct research into infrastructure and database issues, standards, and products as required. -Experience with data warehouses and Extract Transform Load (ETL).

This position is also open to qualified persons with a disability who are eligible for the 55-a Program. Please indicate at the top of your resume and cover letter that you would like to be considered for the position through the 55-a Program.

As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at https://studentaid.gov/pslf/

New York City Residency is not required for this position

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.