{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"b43dc5b817c27d76e7de697c","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/b43dc5b817c27d76e7de697c","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/b43dc5b817c27d76e7de697c","title":"Intermediate Systems Database Administrator","description":"Job Family\nIT Operations\nAbout Us\n\nAt Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.\n\nUltimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there.\n\nWho We Are\n\nWe believe everyone deserves to live their best life. More than a century ago, we were among the first financial services companies in America to serve everyday people from all walks of life.\nToday, we’re part of an international holding company, with millions of customers and thousands of employees worldwide. Our insurance, retirement, and investment solutions help people make the most of what’s important to them.\nWe’re empowered by a vast agent network covering North America, with diversity to match. Together with our nonprofit research institute and foundation, we tune in, step up, and are a force for good — for our customers and the communities where we live, work, and play. United in our purpose, we help people create the financial freedom to live life on their terms.\nWhat We Do\n\nTransamerica is organized into three distinct businesses. These include 1) World Financial Group, including Transamerica Financial Advisors, 2) Protection Solutions and Savings & Investments, comprised of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits, retirement plans, and Transamerica Investment Solutions, and 3) Financial Assets, which includes legacy blocks of long term care, universal life, and variable and fixed annuities. These are supported by Transamerica Corporate, which includes Finance, People and Places, General Counsel, Risk, Internal Audit, Strategy and Development, and Corporate Affairs, which covers Communications, Brand, and Government and Policy Affairs.\n\nTransamerica employs nearly 7,000 people. It’s part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group serving approximately 23.9 million customers worldwide.* For more information, visit\ntransamerica.com\n.\nJob Description Summary\nOpen systems database administrator supporting Microsoft SQL Server. DBA responsibilities focusing on support of DB infrastructure across Microsoft Windows, AWS, and Azure environments.\nJob Description\nResponsibilities\nThe installation, configuration and maintenance of SQL Server DBMS environments\nProactive monitoring of all databases\nBackup, recovery and housekeeping tasks\nIncident, capacity and performance management for both production and development environments and databases\nDisaster recovery\nOn-call rotation and out of hours working to support incidents and changes\n\nQualifications\n4-year Computer Science Degree or equivalent work experience\n2 years’ experience as a DBA with MS SQL Server including installation, configuration, maintenance, patching and upgrade of SQL instances\nSignificant hands-on experience with SQL Server 2016 and up\nLogical and physical database design\nBackup, recovery and housekeeping\nPerformance monitoring and tuning\nExperience with Windows server management\nKnowledge of clustering, mirroring, and replication in a SQL Server environment\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with in-depth performance monitoring toolsets\nFamiliarity with Service Now and database automation\nExperience with Oracle, DB2, MySQL or other open system DBMS'\n\nWorking Conditions\nHybrid-Office Environment (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays)\nOut of hours support (on-call and standby), evenings and weekends, will be required to support customer and GTS requirements\nOccasional Travel","company":"Transamerica","rawCompany":"transamerica","city":"Cedar Rapids","state":"IA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-04-09T15:47:14.052Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1242.00","title":"Database Administrators","slug":"database-administrators"},{"code":"15-1244.00","title":"Network and Computer Systems Administrators","slug":"network-and-computer-systems-administrators"},{"code":"15-1243.00","title":"Database Architects","slug":"database-architects"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"518210","title":"Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services","slug":"computing-infrastructure-providers-data-processing-web-hosting-and-related-services"},{"code":"541519","title":"Other Computer Related Services","slug":"other-computer-related-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Intermediate Systems Database Administrator","description":"Job Family\nIT Operations\nAbout Us\n\nAt Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. 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