Database Administrator (IBM Database Certified)

Gdit; United States; Remote; USD 98,000 - 132,000; Full time

Job summary

GDIT is seeking a Database Administrator to support the Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AOUSC). The AOUSC oversees court and judicial case management systems, including CM/ECF and PACER, providing secure public access to records.

The Database Administrator will design, operate, and support services enabling CM/ECF and PACER, performing Tier 3 support across environments and ensuring security, reliability, and compliance.

Qualifications

• MA/MS degree with 5+ years or BS/BA degree with 7+ years in IT systems.
• Strong experience administering cloud database platforms, including Informix and MySQL.
• Expertise in SQL, performance tuning, workload management, and database optimization.
• Experience operating databases in AWS or hybrid cloud environments.
• Proven ability to automate database administration using IaC and scripting.
• Familiarity with federal security, compliance, and audit requirements.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with technical and business teams.
• Effective communication and documentation skills.
• Knowledge of modern monitoring/observability tools and CI/CD workflows.
• Experience applying industry best practices and emerging data platform technologies.
• Consultant mindset and ability to work with stakeholders to define and improve database operations.
• Tools & Technologies: Informix, MySQL, RDS, monitoring/observability tools.

Responsibilities

• Provide full operational lifecycle support of Informix, MySQL and other databases including administration, configuration, maintenance, performance tuning and security.
• Work with enterprise DBAs to install, configure, secure, maintain, deploy, and support databases which reside on enterprise systems.
• Develop templates and implement standard configurations for all databases.
• Configure, maintain, and support Enterprise Replication services where required.
• Monitor database health and actively mitigate potential issues and downtime.
• Implement changes in all environments through approved change management processes. This includes after business hours work for changes to production systems.
• Participate in the design and implementation of changes to new and existing database schemas.
• Participate in the planning and implementation of data migration strategies.
• Write SQL queries to extract data to support program and stakeholder requests.
• Work with enterprise administrators to ensure that databases are being backed up and perform annual recovery tests.
• Collaborate with Data Platform Engineers, Data Engineers, Architects, Security teams, and app teams.
• Ensure DB environments comply with all security, privacy, governance, & regulatory requirements.

Skills

Database Operations

Database Optimization

IBM Informix

MySQL

Education

MA/MS degree with 5+ years or BS/BA with 7+ years in IT systems

Tools

Informix

MySQL

RDS

Monitoring/observability tools

Job description

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

Other

Job Family:

IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Database Operations, Database Optimization, IBM Informix, MySQL

Certifications:

None

Experience:

7 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact supporting the Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AOUSC). The AOUSC is responsible for providing oversight, supervision, and coordination of the court and judicial case management systems. These systems include the Judiciary's Case Management/Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) and Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) systems.

GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. The Database Administrator will work as part of the PACER Development team responsible for developing, operating, and supporting internal and external systems that allow for secure public access to court electronic records for the Judiciary.

The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, operating, maintaining, and providing Tier 3 support for enabling services for CM/ECF and PACER.

Responsibilities:

• Provide full operational lifecycle support of Informix, MySQL and other databases including administration, configuration, maintenance, performance tuning and security. This encompasses routine updates, monitoring, deployment activities, error diagnostics and correction, data extraction, and the remediation of all security findings.
• Work with enterprise DBAs to install, configure, secure, maintain, deploy, and support databases which reside on enterprise systems.
• Develop templates and implement standard configurations for all databases.
• Configure, maintain, and support Enterprise Replication services where required.
• Monitor database health and actively mitigate potential issues and downtime.
• Implement changes in all environments through approved change management processes. This includes after business hours work for changes to production systems.
• Participate in the design and implementation of changes to new and existing database schemas.
• Participate in the planning and implementation of data migration strategies.
• Write SQL queries to extract data to support program and stakeholder requests.
• Work with enterprise administrators to ensure that databases are being backed up and perform annual recovery tests.
• Collaborate with Data Platform Engineers, Data Engineers, Architects, Security teams, and app teams.
• Ensure DB environments comply with all security, privacy, governance, & regulatory requirements.
• Preferred Experience: Informix, MySQL

Qualifications:

• MA/MS degree with 5+ years or BS/BA degree with 7+ years of general experience in IT systems.
• Strong experience administering cloud database platforms, including Informix and MySQL.
• Expertise in SQL, performance tuning, workload management, and database optimization.
• Experience operating databases in AWS or hybrid cloud environments.
• Proven ability to automate database administration using IaC and scripting .
• Familiarity with federal security, compliance, and audit requirements.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with technical and business teams.
• Effective communication and documentation skills.
• Knowledge of modern monitoring/observability tools and CI/CD workflows.
• Experience applying industry best practices and emerging data platform technologies.
• Consultant mindset and ability to work with stakeholders to define and improve database operations.
• Tools & Technologies: Informix, MySQL, RDS, monitoring/observability tools.

Certifications (Required):

• IBM Database Certification

The likely salary range for this position is $97,750 - $132,250. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

None

Telecommuting Options:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Our Identity Verification Process:

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

About Our Work:

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.

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