Requisition No: 868132
Agency: Department of State
Working Title: DOS - DATA BASE ADMINISTRATOR - SES - 45001059
Pay Plan: SES
Position Number: 45001059
Salary: $85,000 - $90,000
Posting Closing Date: 01/19/2026
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Florida Department of State
Database Administrator - SES
Division of Administrative Services
Bureau of Departmental Information Systems
Open Competitive
45001059
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
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Special Note:
Responses to qualifying questions must be clearly supported in your employment history.
Duties and Responsibilities:
This position serves as the Bureau of Departmental Information Systems (BDIS) Lead Database Administrator and in this capacity maintains the Florida Voter Registration System (FVRS) database and manages the team that maintains all relational databases for the Department.
Provides supervisory responsibilities and direction to staff and is responsible for staff training, motivation, evaluation, and effective use of staff resources. Coordinates technical support priorities and determines the allocation of available resources.
Proposes and implement failover strategies. Performs or tasks database patches. Performs or tasks database upgrades and implement new features. Schedules or tasks the monitoring of successful database back-ups. Performs or tasks database restores as required. Creates or assigns new database environments to be created as needed. Performs or tasks data exports and imports as required.
Responsible for tasking staff who conduct low level monitoring, access control, and performance of FDOS data bases and the hardware it resides upon; overall solution configuration; database and related systems architecture, availability planning, including Disaster Recovery; direct reports monitor all database environments for integrity and efficiency; staff also monitor monthly solution capacity planning.
Performs or tasks database tuning as needed to address performance issues; Conducts or tasks proactive maintenance; proposes or tasks issue resolution; Responsible for analysis and query execution plans and index utilization, either tasked or assigned. Assists in the development of new applications, including system design, creation of tables, and setting performance metrics; analyzes and develop PL/SQL packages. Implement database schema modifications as required.
Maintain change logs for all database configuration updates and changes for all database servers. Maintain change logs for user accounts and ensure security standards are implemented. Provide monthly database performance reports. Generate baseline statistics and analyze database performance over time.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS
A Level 2 criminal background check is a condition of employment. If selected for this position, you must provide your fingerprints. We will send your fingerprints to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a criminal background check.
IMPORTANT NOTICES:
We are committed to enhancing our workforce through the employment of Veterans, individuals with disabilities and seek qualified candidates with diverse backgrounds, abilities, skills, and talents to join our workforce.
Male applicants born on or after January 1, 1960, will not be eligible for hire or promotion unless they are registered with the Selective Services System (SSS) before their 26th birthday, or have a Letter of Registration Exemption from the SSS. For more information, please visit the SSS website: https://www.sss.gov
The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace.
Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.
The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.
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