Senior Database Administrator

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Date: Sep 27, 2025

Location: Alhambra, CA, US, 91803-0000

Company: Southern California Edison

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Become a Senior Database Administrator at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll manage and optimize our enterprise database environments. We are seeking a collaborative and detail-oriented Senior Database Administrator to support and optimize our enterprise database environment. This role involves installing, configuring, and maintaining Oracle, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL databases, while managing daily operations such as production support, incident response, server builds, upgrades, and change implementations. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in performance monitoring, tuning, and implementing high availability and disaster recovery solutions using clustering technologies like RAC, Always-On Availability Groups, and streaming replication.

 

In addition to technical expertise, this role requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills. The Database Administrator will work closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, infrastructure engineers, and enterprise architects—to support application requirements and ensure seamless integration across platforms. Responsibilities also include automating routine tasks using PowerShell and Linux shell scripting, managing database security and user privileges, applying patches and updates, and setting up encryption for data in transit and at rest. The ability to clearly document procedures, troubleshoot issues efficiently, and contribute to a collaborative team environment is essential for success. As a Senior Database Administrator, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

Responsibilities

  • Reviews system logs and real time alerts for infrastructure to identify trends, investigate abnormalities, and report exceptions to the information security program
  • Monitors the IT related accepted risks for adding, updating, and removing accepted risks based on changes in technology and vulnerabilities
  • Monitors the configuration of company-wide applications to verify they meet the standards required by the information security program
  • Updates the information security program and corresponding cybersecurity policies, procedures, and controls annually based on regulatory changes, feedback from the information security committee, and the results of audits and assessments
  • Researches, implements, and maintains an information security framework through ongoing compliance monitoring of the framework
  • Completes the preparation of risk assessments that are performed for new critical technologies, applications, or devices that are implemented, revised, and installed
  • Monitors that security risk management practices are embedded into key business processes, enables security risk reduction by working collaboratively with business partners and security programs to identify, prioritize, and mitigate security risks
  • Fulfills security goals, scenarios, and selects cases to develop acceptable parameters of security risks or guardrails. Recommends changes to processes, software, systems, and platforms based upon security risk
  • Coordinates enterprise security policies and communications, gathers business participants input, implements changes to policies, and advises the business on policy changes
  • Supports, installs and maintains security tools and systems, and tracks security patches and incidents
  • A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Seven or more years of experience in information technology, information security and/or cybersecurity.

 

Preferred Qualifications

  • Certifications such as Oracle DBA, or PostgreSQL Certified Professional.
  • Three or more years of experience of data replication, clustering, and high availability solutions.
  • Five or more years of experience with DevOps tools and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Three or more years of experience using business intelligence including data import/export and transformation as well as other programming languages or scripting.
  • Experience with Distributed AG and GoldenGate replication. 

 

 

Additional Information 

  • This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days.  Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California.  Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
  • Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!
  • Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
  • The primary work location for this position is Alhambra, CA.  However, the successful candidate may also be asked to work for an extended amount of time at other alternate locations. 
  • Position will require up to 10% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.
  • This position has been identified as a NERC/CIP impacted position - Prior to being hired, the successful candidate must pass a Personnel Risk Assessment (PRA) or Background Investigation.  Once hired, the candidate must complete specified training prior to gaining un-escorted access to assigned work location and performing necessary job duties.
  • Relocation does not apply to this position.

 

About Southern California Edison

The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.

 

Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at (833) 343-0727.