Senior DBA IV

About Us

 Planet DDS is the leading provider of cloud-enabled dental software solutions serving over 10,000 practices in North America with over 60,000 users. The company delivers a complete platform of solutions for dental practices including Denticon Practice Management, Apteryx XVWeb Digital Imaging, Cloud 9 Ortho and Legwork Patient Relationship Management. Planet DDS is committed to creating value for its dental practice clients by solving the most urgent challenges facing today’s dental practices in North America   

Overview

A Senior DBA is a vital member of the DBA Team. The Senior DBA will be involved in the management, deployment, and monitoring of database systems while ensuring security and a high level of data availability. The Senior DBA is responsible for delivering high-quality, timely solutions and services through the full lifecycle, including development, testing, and implementation. 

The Senior DBA will be working on a team in fast-paced environment and needs would take the initiative to explore, experiment new technologies to find the right solution and mentor other members of the DBA team. To be successful, the Senior DBA will be a friendly, hard-working, positive person with a true passion for solving problems with technology. You will work most closely with teams in Scotland while also supporting initiatives in the US.  

This role is hybrid working 1-2x per week out of our Glasgow office.

 Responsibilities  

• Write;
  - solid queries, stored procedures, functions, and triggers 
  - administrative utilities to automate routine tasks 
  - develop ETL processes 
  - automation scripts for building non-prod and prod environments on Azure 

• Ensure;
  - SQL queries are efficient and are scalable on production environment 
  - accurate database indexing, archiving, reporting, and automation 
  - SQL coding standards are followed by each team member
  - CI-CD is fully functional and reliable in all environments including Azure 

• Mentor more junior database administrators and software engineers 

• Provide leadership, technical guidance, and best practices to the solution design process and to other team members 

• Work closely with the IT, DevOps and Cloud team to support infrastructure enhancements and maintenance 

• Participate in periodic performance reporting, record performance metrics, analyze drifts based on known baseline data, trend analysis to support in growth monitoring and capacity planning 

• Implement and maintain database security, including database encryption, data masking and securing backups 

• Coordinate, monitor and manage all nightly data services jobs 

• Monitor database operations and performance using native and 3rd-party tools 

• Troubleshoot data-related issues while maintaining data integrity and accuracy 

• Document changes and follows existing processes, code, data flows and other key functions 

• Participate in continuous improvement efforts in enhancing database performance and providing increased functionality, including performing maintenance, monitoring activity, and documenting problems, changes, and solutions 

• Work on scheduled rotation involving after-hours tasks and routines  

Skills  

• 8 years or more of experience in a database administration/data engineering role
• Well experienced in production monitoring and troubleshoot (Production support lead)
• Strong experience in Azure SQL databases
• Writing stored procedures, queries, functions, and triggers in T-SQL 
• Experience in the full software development lifecycle
• Working with cloud technologies (plus for Microsoft Azure)
• Experience in Agile software development methodology
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant major or equivalent years of experience

Pluses  

• Experience in infrastructure layout, provisioning, Azure cloud infrastructure with reference to provisioning, security, and management

• Experience in B2B product development

• Experience in designing multi-tenant SaaS database schema 

PLANET DDS CORE IDEOLOGY

Why are we here?

Unleashing dentists and their staff to focus on patient care.

Where are we headed?

In the next 5 years, Planet DDS will remain the leading provider of cloud-based technology solutions in North America, expanding to serve more than 25,000 dental practices.

How do we get there?

To encourage measurable progress toward our vision and make the best decisions on behalf of employees and customers, we adopted a set of common values:

Collaborative – Working independently and across teams, we create scalable solutions to enable company growth

Empathetic – We are educated on the experience of our customers and feel vested in their success

Accountable – We feel ownership for the quality of our work and take pride in the positive outcomes

Trustworthy – We operate with integrity and honest, making promises we know that we can keep

Ambitious – We are driven by our ability to make a long-term, positive impact on the lives of dental market leaders