Database Administrator – Production Support
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Database Administrator supporting GDIT’s mission-critical cloud databases for U.S. government clients. Managing production support, Databricks models, AWS services, ETL, and data reliability.
Responsibilities:
- Provide production support for mission-critical database environments, including shift-based coverage and on-call support
- Monitor database performance, respond to incidents, troubleshoot production issues, and coordinate restoration with development and operations teams
- Perform root-cause analysis for production defects and contribute to long-term stability improvements
- Work within an Agile solution development environment with daily scrums, biweekly sprint planning, and quarterly Program Increment planning
- Develop operating standards and best practices for performance, security, scalability, and maintainability
- Define, control, and coordinate data elements and standards; facilitate data relationships, systems integration, and physical structure
- Participate in developing and implementing database management policies and standards
- Gather business requirements with Product Owners and users and map them to technical requirements
- Collaborate with agency leaders, stakeholders, consultants, and program/agency personnel on data analysis techniques
- Document complex workflow designs for project teams and stakeholders
- Collect, analyze, and interpret large amounts of data using advanced statistical analysis, data mining, and predictive modeling techniques
- Synthesize information and identify patterns and relationships across data sources
- Develop data visualizations for key performance indicators and program outcome metrics
- Host peer reviews of other developers’ code; perform data validation and ensure data accuracy and integrity
- Develop stored procedures, jobs, views, tables, and other database objects in SQL Server Management Studio
- Design and develop scalable data models for Databricks lakehouse environments, including bronze, silver, and gold layers, dimensional models, fact and dimension tables, and curated data products
- Develop and deploy ETL packages using CI/CD pipelines
- Use configuration management systems for version control
- Work with the Atlassian Suite of software development management tools
- Index system and application logs in Splunk and create dashboards, alerts, and reports
Requirements:
- At least seven (7+) years of Server database maintenance and database analysis or similar role
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Programming, Computer Engineering or relevant computer-based major; experience may be considered in lieu of degree
- Experience supporting production database systems, including shift-based coverage and on-call responsibilities
- Proficient experience with AWS database technologies such as Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and other AWS-managed data services
- Experience with Databricks and exposure to AWS cloud platform
- Experience completing database environment installation, configuration, and ongoing administration support
- Demonstrated understanding of standard data warehouse concepts
- Adept with data modeling, data mapping, data flow diagrams, and data marts
- Previous experience architecting and implementing cloud-based database solutions on various platforms
- Experience with data migration from legacy on-premises databases to multi-cloud/hybrid cloud platforms
- Ability to spearhead and work independently, prioritize, and get things done
- Strong analytical, technical, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent organization and time management skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Must be able to provide on-call support and/or follow a flexible work schedule as needed
- Database or cloud certification preferred, such as AWS Certified Database – Specialty, AWS Solutions Architect Associate/Professional, or equivalent industry-recognized cloud/database certification
- Experience creating and managing database reports, visualizations, and dashboards preferred
- Knowledge of court operations and law enforcement business data preferred
Benefits:
- Medical plan options, including plans with Health Savings Accounts
- Dental plan options
- Vision plan
- 401(k) plan with pre-tax and post-tax contributions and company match
- Full flex work weeks where possible
- Vacation, sick, personal, holiday, parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave
- Typically 15 days of paid leave per calendar year
- 10 paid holidays per year
- Up to 160 hours of paid family leave in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees
- Short- and long-term disability benefits
- Life insurance
- Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Personal accident insurance
- Critical illness insurance
- Business travel and accident insurance
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