Database Administrator (DBA)

International Executive Service Corps; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NuAxis is seeking a talented Database Administrator (DBA) for a full-time role. It owns database availability, performance, security, and migration readiness across a legacy IBM DB2 estate and cloud-managed relational databases.

You will guide migrations from on-prem to cloud services, optimize schemas, and partner with developers to validate data migrations in a regulated environment.

The position emphasizes security hardening, HA/DR design, and collaboration with federal customers.

Qualifications

• 7+ years as a DBA on production systems.
• Hands-on IBM DB2 administration (v10.x+).
• Cloud DB experience with AWS Aurora/RDS.
• Advanced SQL, stored procedures, performance tuning.
• Backup/recovery, HA/DR, and replication.
• DB security hardening and regulatory compliance.
• Automation scripting (Python, Shell) & IaC.
• CI/CD migrations with version-controlled schemas.
• Hybrid legacy-to-cloud DB2/MySQL/PostgreSQL.
• PII handling and audit logging best practices.

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and tune production and non-production databases; proactive alerting and maintenance.
• Support migration from on-prem to cloud-managed services; schema conversion and cutover planning.
• Design schemas, indexes, partitioning, and stored procedures; optimize queries and root-cause analysis.
• Maintain security controls: access, encryption, auditing, and privileged access management.
• Maintain baseline configurations and inventories on a defined cadence.
• Manage backup, recovery, replication, and high availability configurations; test recovery procedures.
• Remediate database vulnerabilities; ensure supported release windows.
• Support developers with data access patterns and migration validation.
• Support DB2-to-cloud migration planning for modernization projects.
• Maintain inventories per configuration-management requirements.
• Support monitoring, RCAs, vulnerability remediation, and release evidence.

Skills

IBM DB2

AWS Aurora

SQL Tuning

Backup & Recovery

Security Hardening

Python

CI/CD Migrations

Hybrid Cloud

PII Handling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

We are a federal IT company on a mission to make customer experience (CX) the center of every government solution.

Technology is our Passion. People are our Purpose.

We know tech, but we love people. NuAxis is home to thinkers and feelers; engineers and artists. We work hard and support each other along the way. Teamwork is more than just a buzzword for us, it’s a state of mind.

We believe happy employees do amazing work, so join our team NOW! We are currently seeking a talented and motivatedDatabase Administrator (DBA)for a Full-Time position.

Role Summary

Owns database availability, performance, security, and migration readiness across a legacy IBM DB2 estate and modern cloud-managed relational databases. Keeps mission-critical data services healthy while enabling the platform's move to cloud-native data architecture.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and tune production and non-production databases; proactive alerting, capacity planning, and preventive maintenance.
• Support database migration from legacy on-premises platforms to cloud-managed services, including schema conversion, data movement, and cutover planning.
• Design and review schemas, indexes, partitioning, and stored procedures; conduct query optimization and root cause analysis on performance incidents.
• Maintain database security controls: access control, encryption at rest and in transit, auditing, and privileged access management.
• Maintain baseline configurations, configuration management records, and system component inventories on a defined cadence.
• Manage backup, recovery, replication, and high-availability configurations; test and document recovery procedures.
• Remediate database-layer vulnerability and STIG findings; keep platform versions within supported release windows.
• Support developers and analysts with data access patterns, test data provisioning, and migration validation.
• Support DB2-to-cloud/MySQL migration planning for Drupal/PACE modernization, including schema conversion, reconciliation, performance baselines, cutover, rollback, and post-migration validation.
• Maintain database configuration and component inventories in accordance with DOL configuration-management requirements at the required cadence.
• Support monitoring, alerting, RCA, vulnerability remediation, supported-version currency, and release/change evidence for database changes.

Required Skills & Experience

• 7+ years as a DBA supporting production enterprise systems.
• Hands-on IBM DB2 administration (v10.x or later) strongly preferred; equivalent Oracle/SQL Server depth with DB2 cross-training will be considered.
• Cloud-managed database experience — AWS Aurora/RDS (PostgreSQL or MySQL) preferred.
• Advanced SQL, stored procedure development, and performance tuning.
• Backup/recovery, HA/DR design, and replication experience.
• Database security hardening and compliance experience in a regulated environment.
• Automation scripting (Python, Shell) and infrastructure-as-code familiarity.
• Experience supporting database changes through CI/CD with version-controlled schema migrations.
• Experience supporting DB2 and MySQL/PostgreSQL in hybrid legacy-to-cloud modernization environments.
• Working knowledge of database security controls, audit logging, encryption, least privilege, records retention, and regulated PII handling.

Preferred Qualifications

• Legacy-to-cloud database migration experience (DMS, SCT, or equivalent).
• Federal environment experience with STIGs and formal configuration management.
• Kubernetes-hosted application data patterns and connection pooling at scale.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field; equivalent experience considered.

Our Profile:

We are an IT company with a unique mission—to make people the center of every federal IT solution. Our technologists have always gone the extra mile to help our federal clients succeed. And over the years, we saw a growing disconnect in how federal IT initiatives were built and managed.Time after time, programs failed because the focus was on the tools and products and not the people using them.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background investigation. Learn More about our Benefits and Culture!