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Manager, Database Administration-3668

Mitchell 1 Group
San Diego, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/7/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/7/2026
Overview:
About the Role - The Manager, Database Administration provides management leadership and share hands-on responsibility for managing, maintaining, and optimizing the performance of MarkLogic and SQL Server databases, ensuring data integrity, availability, and security by performing tasks like installation, configuration, backup management, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and implementing database security measures, while collaborating with application developers and IT operations to support critical business and commercial systems. The Manager also utilizes strong communication and teamwork skills to facilitate data-driven analysis and insights that support organizational goals.

This position is a full-time, in-office role, Monday through Friday, located at the Mitchell 1 headquarters in San Diego.
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities -
  • Provides technical direction, workload management, and prioritization of tasks for the team
  • Strong leadership that mentors and provides career development and performance feedback to the team
  • Manages database-related software maintenance renewals and annual budgeting forecasts
  • Create lifecycle roadmaps and future state architecture of database platforms
  • Ensure performance, security, scalability, and availability of enterprise MarkLogic and SQL Server databases
  • Perform technical troubleshooting to diagnose, isolate, and correct data and database issues
  • Design, implement, and monitor disaster recovery plans as they pertain to the production database environment
  • Identify high-load SQL statements, gather performance-related data, and identify and resolve missing, unused, and index that need enhancements
  • Configure and support high availability for SQL Server, to include clustering, replication, DB mirroring, and Availability Groups
  • Provide recommendations and implement best practices for stored procedures, triggers, packages, tables, and views
  • Contributes to database hardware and software lifecycle and capacity planning
  • Performs and oversees database upgrades and deployments
  • Improves, maintains, and executes disaster recovery migrations
  • Creates and maintains database logging, monitoring, and alerting
  • Documents database processes, procedures, and maintains asset management
  • Participates in on-call rotation, incident response, and is an escalation resource
  • Other projects and assignments as needed, requested by (Mitchell1 and Snap-on senior or executive leadership).
Qualifications:
Qualifications -
  • B.A. or B.S. in Computer Science, Information Technology, related discipline, or equivalent experience (required)
  • Microsoft SQL Server Database certifications (preferred)
  • MarkLogic Certified Administrator (preferred)

Required Skills
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  • 10 years of Senior database administration experience with a primary focus on Microsoft SQL Server or MarkLogic
  • 5 years of IT management experience
  • 10 years of experience in MSSQL Server (includes version 2019 ) in a clustered enterprise environment
  • Experience with MarkLogic strongly desired
  • Experience with Nginix, Oracle, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and MS Access is a plus
  • Experience in troubleshooting and performance tuning
  • Experience with PowerShell knowledge; able to write, read, diagnose, and troubleshoot scripts
  • Experience working in AWS or Azure is a plus
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Strong people and thought leadership; ability to develop, mentor, and coach others
  • Experience with ServiceNow CMDB, MS Teams, and DevOps is a plus

Years of Experience:
  • 10 years of Senior database administration experience with a primary focus on Microsoft SQL Server or MarkLogic
  • 5 years of IT management experience
Pay range and compensation package: $150,000 - $175,000 bonus, based on experience and education.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We believe that diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives strengthens our organization. All employment decisions are made without regard to any protected status under applicable laws.

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