Database administrator

The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) provides advanced paediatric and adolescent health services across Victoria, Tasmania, southern NSW and other regions. With over 6,000 staff and 350 beds, RCH supports children and young people through a commitment to safety and a positive culture.

• Parkville location, close to public transport
• Friendly and supportive team environment
• Permanent full‐time role

This is a Permanent Full‐Time position within the Digital Department, Servers, Storage and Cloud Operations team.

You will provide hands‐on administration and support of SQL Server and Oracle database platforms, ensuring high levels of availability, performance, security and data integrity for critical clinical and operational systems. You will also contribute to the stabilisation, maintenance and incremental improvement of the existing database environment.

Classification ranges from AO71 – AO75 ($111,103.20 – $121,274.40 per annum pro‐rated). Salary includes superannuation.

• Provide BAU database administration support: monitoring, troubleshooting, patching, backup and recovery.
• Support high availability and disaster recovery environments (Always On, clustering, Oracle equivalents).
• Maintain stability and performance of critical clinical and operational systems.
• Contribute to incident, problem and change management processes.
• Support ongoing improvements to database reliability and supportability.

• Demonstrated experience supporting enterprise SQL Server and Oracle database environments.
• Strong hands‐on experience with database administration, performance tuning, backup and recovery.
• Experience working in on‐premises production environments.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues and respond effectively in operational/BAU settings.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills within a technical team.

The Digital Department delivers critical technology services to clinical, operational and corporate functions across the hospital. The Servers, Storage and Cloud Operations team manages core infrastructure platforms, including a predominantly on‐premises SQL Server and Oracle database environment supporting key clinical systems.

• Salary packaging to increase take‐home pay.
• Professional development and special events.
• Culture of continuous improvement.

• Current National Criminal Record Check, or willingness to obtain.
• Valid Working with Children Check.
• Compliance with RCH's "Staff Immunisation – Prevention of Vaccine‐Preventable Diseases" procedure.

The RCH is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds, all members of the LGBTQI community and people with disability.

It is a requirement of your employment to be vaccinated against Influenza annually for Category A and B roles, in compliance with any public health orders. Applicants must provide an Australian Government Immunisation History Statement. Vaccination against other diseases and compliance with any direction given by RCH is also required.