Aviation Department - Information Technology Division
Work Location: 601 Brasilia Ave
Work Days and Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Application Deadline: October 14, 2026
• Administers, maintains, and supports enterprise database environments, including Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases across production, test, development, and other organizational environments, ensuring high levels of availability, performance, security, and reliability.
• Plans and executes database installations, configurations, upgrades, patches, migrations, and version changes, evaluating technical requirements, dependencies, risks, and potential impacts to applications and business operations.
• Monitors, analyzes, and optimizes database performance and capacity through proactive monitoring, performance tuning, query optimization, indexing strategies, resource management, and capacity planning.
• Designs, implements, and maintains database backup, recovery, high-availability, business continuity, and disaster recovery solutions to protect critical data and minimize service disruption.
• Ensures the security, integrity, availability, and reliability of enterprise databases through access controls, security configurations, auditing, data protection practices, vulnerability remediation, and compliance with organizational policies and industry best practices.
• Diagnoses and resolves complex database issues, including performance degradation, connectivity problems, data integrity issues, failures, availability concerns, and other issues requiring advanced technical analysis and troubleshooting.
• Serves as a technical resource and subject matter expert for database administration, providing technical guidance, recommendations, and support to application developers, system administrators, IT staff, vendors, and business stakeholders.
• Analyzes application and business requirements and recommends database solutions that support system functionality, scalability, performance, security, and long-term maintainability.
• Develops, maintains, and enforces database standards, procedures, configurations, and technical documentation to promote consistency, reliability, security, and operational efficiency across database environments.
• Evaluates emerging database technologies, tools, and methodologies and recommends improvements to enhance database performance, availability, security, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Provides mentoring to IT staff by sharing database administration knowledge, troubleshooting techniques, best practices, and recommendations for resolving complex technical issues.
• Works independently to investigate and resolve complex technical problems, determining appropriate solutions and making recommendations that may have significant operational or organizational impact.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
REQUIRES:
• an accredited Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of technology experience; OR
• an equivalent combination of qualifying education and technology experience.
• Must be able to pass 10 TSA background check.
• Must have a valid driver’s license.
• Preference given to candidates with at least one year of job-related experience where database administration was a primary responsibility, including administering, maintaining, securing, and supporting enterprise Oracle and/or Microsoft SQL Server databases.
Apply online at www.kcmo.gov/jobs. EOE. The City of Kansas City, Missouri is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse workforce.
