Your responsibility as a database administrator (DBA) will be the performance, integrity and security of a database. You'll be involved in the planning and development of the database, as well as in troubleshooting any issues on behalf of the users.

Responsibilities:

establish the needs of users and monitoring user access and security

monitor performance and manage parameters in order to provide fast responses to front-end users

map out the conceptual design for a planned database

consider both back-end organisation of data and front-end accessibility for end-users

refine the logical design so that it can be translated into a specific data model

further refining the physical design to meet system storage requirements

work closely with IT project managers, database programmers and multimedia programmers

communicate regularly with technical, applications and operational staff to ensure database integrity and security

manage the security and disaster recovery aspects of a database.