Database Administrator

Softek International Inc; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Softek International Inc. seeks a database professional to support administration, design, and enhancements to database applications, forms, and reports in enterprise environments.

The role focuses on maintaining data environments, ETL pipelines, data standardization, and ensuring high availability through backup, recovery, and replication, using PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, and AWS tools.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience administering enterprise databases.
• Designing and implementing database changes across forms, menus, reports.
• Proficiency with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with Databricks Delta Lake and AWS services.

Responsibilities

• Support database administration functions.
• Maintain enterprise data environments and databases.
• Perform integrity checks, performance tuning, backup, recovery, replication, and high-availability support.
• Implement data standardization, validation, and cleansing processes.

Skills

Database administration

Performance tuning

Data modeling

ETL/ELT pipelines

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

AWS

SQL Warehouses

Job description

Description

• Support database administration functions, including designing and implementing modifications and enhancements to forms, menus, reports, and database applications.
• Maintain enterprise data environments and databases, including ETL/ELT pipelines, feature stores, ontologies, lineage repositories, and analytics outputs.
• Perform database integrity checks, performance tuning, backup, recovery, replication, and high-availability support.
• Implement data standardization, validation, and cleansing processes throughout design, development, deployment, and sustainment.
  • Databricks: Delta Lake, Unity Catalog (permissions, ABAC/RBAC), SQL Warehouses
  • AWS: S3, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, AWS Backup
  • Database performance tuning, backup and recovery, replication, and high availability
  • Schema design, data migration, and ETL/ELT pipeline maintenance

Relational & NoSQL: PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora/RDS, DynamoDB