Onsite Senior DBA — Cloud Migrations & Security

Zachary Piper Solutions

Huntsville (AL)

Hybrid

USD 140,000 - 150,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to join a federal IT consulting organization supporting an FBI modernization program in Huntsville, Alabama. This 100% onsite role focuses on mission-critical databases across cloud and on-prem environments, aiming to improve performance, security, and availability while transitioning legacy data platforms to modern cloud infrastructure.

The candidate will configure, optimize, and secure databases, manage backups and disaster

Qualifications

Must have an active Top Secret security clearance.
Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience in database administration or data platform operations.
Expertise administering enterprise relational database platforms such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, or MySQL.
Hands-on experience with SQL optimization, stored procedures, indexing strategies, and database performance tuning.
Experience supporting cloud database platforms; AWS RDS, Aurora, and DynamoDB experience preferred.
Strong understanding of database security, encryption, backup and recovery, clustering, and replication.
Strong troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills. Federal modernization, ETL/data migration, containerized workloads, DevSecOps, and Python, Bash, or PowerShell experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Configure, administer, and maintain relational and NoSQL databases, monitoring system health, storage capacity, performance, and availability.
Optimize SQL queries, stored procedures, indexes, and database configurations to improve processing efficiency and throughput.
Manage backups, restores, patching, upgrades, replication, and recovery processes to ensure reliable data operations.
Implement encryption, auditing, role-based access controls, and database hardening in partnership with security teams.
Support cloud database migrations, troubleshoot application and data pipeline issues, and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational reports.