Databricks AWS Database Administrator-

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. seeks a Database Analyst/Administrator to support the AOUSC environment. The role focuses on production database operations, incident response, and data analytics to guide mission-critical decisions.

Responsibilities include developing data models, ETL workflows, and CI/CD deployments while collaborating with stakeholders and ensuring data quality and security across systems.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of server database maintenance or similar role.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related major; experience may substitute degree.
• Experience supporting production DB systems including on‑call responsibilities.
• AWS DB techs (Aurora PostgreSQL) and cloud DB experience preferred.
• Familiarity with Databricks and data warehousing concepts.

Responsibilities

• Provide production support for mission-critical databases, including on-call coverage.
• Monitor performance, respond to incidents, troubleshoot issues, and coordinate with teams to restore service.
• Perform root-cause analyses and contribute to stability improvements.
• Develop and follow standards for performance, security, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to map business needs to technical requirements.
• Document complex workflows and data relationships for the team.

Skills

Database maintenance

On-call support

Data analysis

AWS

SQL

Data modeling

SQL Server

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / related field

Tools

AWS

Databricks

SQL Server Management Studio

CI/CD

Splunk

Atlassian Suite

Job description

Database Analyst /Administrator

GDIT has an opportunity for a dynamic and talented candidate to join our team supporting the Administrative Office of the US Courts (AOUSC).

The Database Analyst/ Administrator will execute the following responsibilities:

• Provides production support for mission‑critical database environments, including shift‑based coverage and on‑call support to ensure high availability and timely issue resolution.
• Monitors database performance, responds to incidents, troubleshoots production issues, and coordinates with development and operations teams to restore service quickly.
• Performs root‑cause analysis for production defects and contributes to long‑term stability improvements.
• Works within an Agile solution development environment with daily scrums, biweekly sprint planning and quarterly Program Increment planning.
• Develops operating standards and best practices, including performance, security, scalability, and maintainability.
• Ensures the proper definition, control, and coordination of data elements and standards, and the facilitation of efficient data relationships, systems integration, and physical structure.
• Participates in the development and implementation of database management policies and standards for efficient quality control and data administration.
• Collaborates with Product Owners and users to gather business requirements and define and maps them to technical requirements. Meets with agency leaders and stakeholders, collaborating with other consultants and program/agency personnel regarding the development of innovative data analysis techniques.
• Demonstrates ability to document complex workflow designs to present to project team and stakeholders.
• Demonstrates ability to work on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of multiple factors and frequently contributes to the development of new business strategy, ideas, and methods adhering to best practices within the Agile framework.
• Collects, analyzes, and interprets large amounts of data to help guide business decisions.Experience with using advanced statistical analysis, data mining, and predictive modeling techniques.
• Synthesizes disparate information and recognizes patterns and relationships across data; synthesizes large sets of data from multiple sources, develops data visualizations for the purpose of tracking key performance indicators and other critical metrics tied to program outcomes.
• Hosts and conducts peer reviews of the code of other developers on the team. Performs data validation and ensures data accuracy and integrity.
• Develops stored procedures, jobs, views, tables, and other database objects in SQL Server Management Studio.
• Designs and develops dimensional data models including start and snowflake schemas, fact and dimension tables, and enterprise data marts to support analytics, reporting and business intelligence solutions.
• Develops and deploys ETL packages using CI/CD pipeline. Exposure to core configuration management systems for version control.
• Works with Atlassian Suite of software development management tools.
• Indexes system and application logs in to the Splunk system monitoring application, then creates dashboards, alerts, and reports from those logs.

***Must be able to provide on-call support and/or follow a flexible work schedule as needed***

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• At least seven (7+) years of Server database maintenance and database analysis or similar role.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Programming, Computer Engineering or relevant computer-based major. Experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Experience supporting production database systems, including shift‑based coverage and on‑call responsibilities.
• Database or cloud certification preferred such as AWS Certified Database – Specialty, AWS Solutions Architect Associate/Professional, or equivalent industry‑recognized cloud/database certification.
• Proficient experience with AWS database technologies such as Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and other AWS‑managed data services.
• Experience with Databricks
• Experienced with completing database environment installation, configuration, on‑going administration support.
• Demonstrated understanding of standard Data warehouse concepts.
• Adept with data modeling, data mapping, data flow diagrams and data marts.
• Previous experience architecting and implementing cloud‑based database solutions on various platforms.
• Experience with Data migration from legacy on‑premises database to multi‑cloud/hybrid cloud platforms.
• Proven ability to spearhead and work independently, prioritize, and get things done.
• Strong analytical, technical, problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent organization and time management skills and ability to identify priorities to accomplish a variety of tasks on schedule.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and ability to work with people at every level. Comfortable writing down ideas, implementation plans and status reports.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience creating and managing database reports, visualizations, and dashboards.
• Knowledge of court operations and law enforcement business data.