Database Administrator

Amivero; Camp Springs (MD); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Amivero is seeking a Database Management Administrator to oversee the design, implementation, and administration of enterprise database environments supporting crucial government IT systems. The individual will manage the security, performance, and reliability of databases while supporting both cloud-based and on-premises platforms.

The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of IT experience, with 8 years dedicated to database administration and cloud architecture. Required skills include expertise in PostgreSQL, Oracle, AWS services, and database security.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in information technology, especially database administration.
• 8+ years of experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with AWS cloud database services.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain relational and NoSQL databases.
• Monitor and optimize database performance and conduct tuning.
• Implement and enforce security controls and compliance.

Skills

Database Administration

Data Modeling

Cloud Architecture

PostgreSQL

Oracle

AWS Services

Performance Tuning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Splunk

Kibana

Elasticsearch

New Relic

Job description

Description

The Amivero Team

Amivero’s team of IT professionals delivers digital services that elevate the federal government, whether national security or improved government services. Our human-centered, data-driven approach is focused on truly understanding the environment and the challenge, and reimagining with our customer how outcomes can be achieved.

Our team of technologists leverage modern, agile methods to design and develop equitable, accessible, and innovative data and software services that impact hundreds of millions of people.

As a member of the Amivero team you will use your empathy for a customer’s situation, your passion for service, your energy for solutioning, and your bias towards action to bring modernization to very important, mission-critical, and public service government IT systems.

Special Requirements

• 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 area

The 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. The individual ensures database reliability, availability, scalability, security, and compliance while supporting cloud-based and on-premises data platforms.

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

EOE/M/F/VET/DISABLED

All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Amivero complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.