Lead Database Administrator

Treasure Island Resort & Casino is seeking a Lead Database Administrator to own the reliability, security, and performance of our mission-critical hospitality and gaming databases. In this onsite role, you will design and optimize database architectures, manage backups and high availability, tune queries, and oversee upgrades and patches to support 24/7 operations. You'll mentor a small DBA/IT team, partner with application and analytics teams, enforce data security and compliance standards, and develop disaster recovery plans that keep resort, casino, and guest systems running smoothly in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain database architectures for casino and resort systems
• Monitor and tune database performance, indexes, and queries
• Manage backups, restores, high availability, and disaster recovery plans
• Apply patches, upgrades, and security configurations in line with policies
• Enforce database security, access control, and regulatory compliance
• Collaborate with application, analytics, and operations teams to support new initiatives
• Troubleshoot database issues and provide 24/7 support as needed
• Lead and mentor junior DBAs and IT staff
• Develop and maintain documentation, standards, and change control procedures

Required Skills

• SQL performance tuning
• Database backup and recovery
• High availability and clustering
• Database security and access control
• Stored procedures and scripting (T-SQL/PL SQL)
• Linux/Windows server administration for DBs
• Monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., OEM, Solar
• Winds)
• Capacity planning and scaling
• Disaster recovery planning
• Documentation and change management