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Covance offers extraordinary career opportunities to our employees. Here you will find a place to learn, grow, and achieve … a place to call your professional home. We provide the opportunity for a career with purpose in an environment that values achievement and supports a balance between personal and professional lives.

 
At Covance, you can make a difference by helping to deliver life-saving and life-enhancing medicines to people around the world. Our commitment to this mission has resulted in Covance’s impressive history of company stability and growth. We’ve achieved these results by fostering a work environment that encourages, develops and leverages our team’s capabilities.

Covance’s ongoing success offers team members unsurpassed growth and career development opportunities. There is no better time to join us!

GENERAL POSITION SUMMARY:
The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to end-top-end operational support capacity planning, data backup/recovery, performance monitoring, job scheduling, system integration and participating in or managing technical projects. MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS
Perform the following database system administration and maintenance tasks:
• Maintain database user logins, passwords and privileges.
• Maintain database integrity and security.
• Implement all required backup and recovery procedures.
• Monitor database system resources and performance.
• Implement change control procedures for appropriate DBMS.
• Manage availability, backup, restoration and recovery systems with the database
• Handle storage management, performance, monitoring and tuning of the database.
• Coordinate database design with IT development staff to ensure optimum performance, conformance to standards and naming conventions; generate database definitions.
• Communicate all changes to the database system to appropriate individuals..
• Assist IT staff in the deployment of developed database software.
• Evaluate conditions and needs and recommend changes regarding database design.
• Develop solutions to hardware and operating system problems.
• Coordinate database system upgrades with IT staff, end users and vendors.
• Develop, publish and maintain database operations manual under revision control.
• Maintain documentation related to database development platform guidelines, methods and standards
• Provides technical leadership to peers and junior personnel within Infrastructure Services
• May perform management functions in absence of manager
• May act as a technical project manager for major projects
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Experience:

Education/Qualifications:
Required:
• At least 8 years of experience in a similar role, responsible for managing and maintaining complex IT environments with emphasis on High Availability and business continuity (clustering and redundancy, backup and restore solutions, disaster recovery procedures) production and/or mission critical environments
• BA/BS in any area of the sciences or engineering
Must have certifications
• Knowledge of Operating Systems software
• Technical expertise pertaining to products and services in the responsibility area including, but not limited to:
• Working knowledge of using databases in Client/Server and Wide Area Network (WAN) environment.
• Experience with database design, maintenance and tuning.
• Proven ability to work independently and with a project team.
• Good attention to detail and strong organizational skills.
• Proven ability to assist development team in data modeling and logic database design
• Strong communication skills both written and verbal with the ability to communicate with external clients and internal team members.
• Excellent ability to handle significant workload with experience in managing multiple projects concurrently in a matrix process environment
• Proven ability to multi-task, work in fast-paced environment and prioritize
• Willingness to work evenings and weekends, when necessary COMPETENCIES Focus on Customers (3 or 4) Innovate and Change (3 or 4) Pursue Scientific and Process Excellence (3 or 4) Work with Others (3 or 4) Achieve Results (3 or 4)

At Covance, we help make the miracles of medicine a reality. We offer opportunities to work on diverse, challenging projects with bright, interesting colleagues while building a flexible and rewarding career.

Covance is committed to diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. (M/F/D/V). Your confidentiality and privacy are important to us.