What are the responsibilities and job description for the Database Administrator position at Cinemark?
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Role Summary
Cinemark is seeking top talent in its Information Technology department to join our team as a Database Administrator. The ideal candidate is a well-rounded Database Administrator who primarily specializes in Microsoft SQL Server administration with familiarity with other database platforms and enjoys a technical challenge as well as creative engineering.
Responsibilities
At Cinemark, we believe every team member should feel like a hero. Each career comes with a variety of blockbuster benefits for both hourly and salaried team members.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Cinemark is an Equal Opportunity Employer
As part of our Cinemark Universe, you'll discover fun opportunities with real growth potential and plenty of perks. With 500 theatres and nearly 6,000 screens; we're truly a global presence of 20,000 movie lovers working together to make unforgettable experiences.
Role Summary
Cinemark is seeking top talent in its Information Technology department to join our team as a Database Administrator. The ideal candidate is a well-rounded Database Administrator who primarily specializes in Microsoft SQL Server administration with familiarity with other database platforms and enjoys a technical challenge as well as creative engineering.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for the health, changes to, creation and administration of databases in the production environment
- Tier two support for remote SQL databases, as well as participate in planning meetings
- Participate in general systems administration
- Own, track and resolve database related incidents and requests, performance tuning, backups, patching, and remediation of security vulnerabilities
- Focus on managing and resolving issues
- Manage backup and recovery processes to ensure recovery timelines can be met
- Assist application development team in environmental restores
- Notification/Alerts management and resolution (e.g. SQL Agent Job Failures, Capacity Shortages, System Outages, etc.)
- Fluent understanding of basic database instance maintenance tasks (e.g. DB Integrity Checks, Index Maintenance, etc.)
- Ability to configure security within established guidelines and perform related task/audits
- Work with business stakeholders on internal and third-party audits
- Deployment of database change scripts provided by application development team
- Advise developers on the most efficient database design (tables, datatypes, stored procedures, etc.)
- Build and maintain documentation related to the company’s database environment
- Initiating and performing changes in production systems
- Bachelor’s degree, SQL Server certifications, or equivalent work experience
- Minimum of 3-5 years of experience as a SQL Server Database Administrator
- Solid understanding/experience securing MS SQL server
- Experience managing database servers both on premises along with cloud environments utilizing virtualization or PaaS services, such as Azure SQL.
- Experience with Postgres SQL
- Experience with Azure cloud management, including familiarity with Power BI, Fabric, or Synapse
- Experience with securely linking MS SQL servers
- Experience with MS SQL data replication
- Experience resolving MS SQL performance issues
- Understanding of MS SQL tuning (including storage allocation, scheduled tasks)
- Experience with MS SQL maintenance plans
- Strong MS SQL troubleshooting skills
- Solid scripting capabilities (PowerShell, Python, etc.)
- Strong skills related to automated maintenance plans
- Breadth of experience with databases of various sizes and criticality
- Experience with modifying stored procedures, triggers, and database designs in a production environment
- Good understanding of Indexing and its impact on server performance
- Solid communication skills/ability to create documentation for non-MS SQL specialists
- Ability to discover problems in a large multi-facet environment, and then convince management to acquire resources to solve issues
- Ability to take ownership and create good documentation
- Ability to take ownership of an issue and take it to completion
- Ability to work with minimal supervision
- Ability to install and configure new SQL Servers/SSRS instances and upgrade existing instances
- Ability to work with other teams on server level issues to prevent/resolve issues as needed
- Firm comfort level with learning new things
- Must be able to sit for extended periods of time
- Customer service-oriented mentality
- Experience with Active Directory
- Broad, general systems administration experience
- Ability to multitask
- Ability to write documentation for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
- Experience with managing many production databases
At Cinemark, we believe every team member should feel like a hero. Each career comes with a variety of blockbuster benefits for both hourly and salaried team members.
- Employee Discount
- 401(k) Matching*
- Growth Opportunities
- Education Assistance*
- Health Benefits*
- Parental Leave*
- Paid Time Off*
- Daily Pay*
- Free Movies*
- Benefits may vary by career category, so be sure to check the specific details on our career site.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Cinemark is an Equal Opportunity Employer