Manager Database Administration

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About the Company - Come work for a SaaS company that is a leader in the automotive repair industry and has the stability that only a 100+-year-old company can offer. We are Mitchell 1, a division of Snap-on Inc. For over 100 years, Mitchell 1 has been a leader in providing information solutions that simplify everyday tasks for automotive professionals, helping make their jobs easier.

About the Role - The Manager, Database Administration provides management leadership and share hands‑on responsibility for managing, maintaining, and optimizing the performance of Mark Logic 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.

• 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 Mark Logic 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 Mitchell 1 and Snap‑on senior or executive leadership

• B.A. or B.S. in Computer Science, Information Technology, related discipline, or equivalent experience (required)
• Microsoft SQL Server Database certifications (preferred)
• Mark Logic Certified Administrator (preferred)

• 10+ years of Senior database administration experience with a primary focus on Microsoft SQL Server or Mark Logic
• 5+ years of IT management experience
• 10+ years of experience in MSSQL Server (includes version 2019+) in a clustered enterprise environment
• Experience with Mark Logic strongly desired
• Experience with Nginx, Oracle, MySQL, Maria
  
  DB, Postgre
  
  SQL, and MS Access is a plus
• Experience in troubleshooting and performance tuning
• Experience with Power Shell knowledge; able to write, read, diagnose, and troubleshoot scripts
• Experience working in AWS or Azure is a plus
• Strong people and thought leadership; ability to develop, mentor, and coach others
• Experience with Service Now CMDB, MS Teams, and Dev Ops is a plus

• 10+ years of Senior database administration experience with a primary focus on Microsoft SQL Server or Mark Logic
• 5+ years of IT management experience

$150,000 - $175,000 + bonus - based on experience and education.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Information Technology

Software Development

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Tuition assistance

Disability insurance