Job Opportunity at HoustonPBS/KUHF

Filed under: Careers — Luke Vander Linden at 4:56 am on Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Another career opportunity has been sent our way. This time from Michal Heiplik down in Houston.  Here are the details.  Good luck!

Job Title: Technical Services Specialist 2 (Database Administrator)

Description: The University of Houston is currently seeking a Technical Services Specialist 2 with the department of KUHT-TV (HoustonPBS) & KUHF-FM (Houston Public Radio).  The Technical Services Specialist 2 provides technical support for operating systems interfaces, database management, development languages, and software packages and departmental computing equipment.

Responsibilities:

  • Assists in establishing and maintaining databases, related structures, and the environmental infrastructure to support growth, improve performance, and implement enhancements.
  • Assists in providing technical support, consultation to developers for database usage, database file design, data dictionary usage, application design and tuning, usage of in-house and vendor supplied utilities, and other technical assistance.
  • Codes and supports in-house software to provide the interface between the database, applications, and layered products; to provide the environmental infrastructure; to implement security; and, to automate internal tasks.
  • Assists in the installation, upgrade, and maintenance of database and related software products.
  • Performs database backups and recovery, as well as offsite disaster recovery.
  • Collects statistics to support database and application tuning, and capacity planning.
  • Assists in trouble shooting and resolving database and related software problems.
  • Provides work station and PC support for internal staff.

Pay: $2,676 – $3,700 Per Month

To apply to this position, please go online to our website http://jobs.uh.edu and reference posting number 063909.

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