Senior Database Administrator
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Senior Database Administrator providing technical leadership and oversight for enterprise clustered database platforms. Ensuring mission-critical database services meet operational, reliability, and cybersecurity requirements.
Responsibilities:
- Provides technical leadership for enterprise clustered database platforms
- Provides oversight of administration, support operations, incident response, troubleshooting, performance optimization, security compliance, high availability, disaster recovery, lifecycle management, and modernization efforts
- Serves as a technical advisor to Government and contractor leadership
- Mentors administrators and ensures mission-critical database services meet operational, reliability, and cybersecurity requirements
- Architect, design, engineer, and document database servers and associated infrastructure
- Lead the design, implementation, and sustainment of enterprise database architectures supporting mission-critical applications
- Serve as the senior technical authority for database platform engineering
- Lead and provide strategic guidance for database modernization initiatives
- Perform STIG hardening, configuration, assessments, and remediation activities
- Sustain a fleet of physical and virtual database-hosting servers
- Design, configure, validate, and maintain high availability and disaster recovery solutions
- Lead resolution of operational issues and provide onsite and on-call support
- Perform advanced performance analysis, tuning, capacity planning, workload analysis, and trend assessment
- Plan, execute, and document server specification changes
- Develop, maintain, and enforce database standards and technical documentation
- Provide root cause analysis for major incidents
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior and mid-level database administrators
- Review proposed application, infrastructure, and database changes to assess security, performance, operational readiness, and overall risk
Requirements:
- Minimum of seven (7) years of experience designing, building, administering, securing, and managing enterprise database environments
- Experience supporting mission-critical database platforms in an enterprise, DoD, Federal Government, or similarly complex operational environment
- Experience with database performance tuning, backup and recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management
- Experience leading or supporting database security compliance activities, including STIG implementation, vulnerability remediation, audit support, and configuration management
- Experience supporting enterprise content management solutions and associated business processes
- Experience developing, implementing, and maintaining automated workflows, approval processes, or business process solutions
- Experience developing technical documentation, standard operating procedures, maintenance plans, and operational support guides
- Experience coordinating with application, server, storage, network, cybersecurity, and Government stakeholders to support database operations and modernization efforts
- Must be able to pass background screening
- Preferred Qualifications: Oracle or SQL Server certification; Senior-level database certification such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate, Oracle Certified Professional, Microsoft SQL Server certification, PostgreSQL, or equivalent database platform certification; Experience with cloud-hosted or hybrid database environments, including Azure, AWS, Oracle Cloud, or other Government-approved cloud platforms; Experience supporting database migrations, platform modernization, cloud migration planning, or database consolidation initiatives;
- Experience with automation, monitoring, dashboarding, and reporting tools that improve database operations and visibility;
- Experience with RMF, eMASS, ACAS, DISA STIG Viewer, vulnerability management processes, or DoD Cybersecurity compliance workflows;
- Experience serving as a technical lead, senior administrator, or subject matter expert for enterprise database operations.
Benefits:
- paid holidays
- paid time off
- 401K with employer match
- dental, vision, health insurance plans
- life and disability benefits
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