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Database Administrator
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Amivero
Temple Hills, MD (In Person)
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Job Description
Database Administrator
Special Requirements
What Your Day Might Include…
- US Citizenship Required to obtain Public Trust
- Bachelor Degree and 10 years of experience in information technology; 8 years of experience supporting database administration. Data modeling, and cloud architecture initiatives
- Must be local to the DMV areaThe Gist…The Database Management Administrator is responsible for the design, implementation, administration, security, performance optimization, and operational support of enterprise database environments supporting mission-critical systems.
What Your Day Might Include…
- Design, implement, administer, and maintain enterprise relational and NoSQL database environments.
- Perform database installation, configuration, upgrades, patch management, migration activities, and environment provisioning.
- Monitor database performance and conduct tuning, indexing, optimization, and query performance analysis.
- Develop and maintain backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.
- Implement and enforce database security controls, user access management, encryption standards, and compliance requirements.
- Support cloud-based database environments and data platform modernization initiatives.
- Troubleshoot database issues, perform root cause analysis, and provide operational support for production systems.
- Develop and maintain database documentation including schema diagrams, data dictionaries, operational procedures, and technical standards.
- Collaborate with application developers, data engineers, cloud engineers, and architects to support application performance and data management requirements.
- Monitor database health, capacity planning, storage utilization, and system availability.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Management, or a related technical discipline.
- Minimum ten (10) years of information technology experience including at least eight (8) years supporting database administration, data modeling, and cloud architecture initiatives.
- Experience designing, implementing, and supporting relational and NoSQL database platforms including PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Aurora, RDS, Redis, and OpenSearch.
- Experience supporting AWS cloud database services and data platforms utilizing Aurora, RDS, S3, KMS, CloudWatch, and CloudFormation.
- Experience performing database installation, configuration, upgrades, patch management, performance tuning, and capacity management activities.
- Experience implementing backup, recovery, disaster recovery, replication, and high availability solutions.
- Experience implementing database security controls utilizing encryption technologies, PKI, OpenSSL, Vault, role-based access controls, and federal security standards.
- Experience utilizing Splunk, Kibana, Elasticsearch, Logstash, and New Relic to support database monitoring, troubleshooting, and operational analytics.
- Experience developing database documentation including data dictionaries, schema diagrams, operational procedures, and governance artifacts.
- Strong knowledge of database security, performance optimization, cloud database services, and federal data protection requirements.