Remote Cloud Data Platform DBA (SQL/NoSQL/Graph)

General Dynamics Information Technology; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full-flex work week

401K with company match

Competitive pay

Paid time off

Military-friendly workplace

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) is seeking a Database Administrator to support the CMM program for AO, designing, building, and maintaining cloud data platform environments such as Snowflake, Redshift, RDS, DynamoDB, and Neptune to enable scalable data engineering and governance.

The role emphasizes automation with SQL, Python, Terraform, and IaC; ensuring security, backups, DR, and ongoing optimization; collaborating with Data Platform Engineers and Security teams to deliver

Qualifications

• 5+ years of general IT experience
• 5+ years of specialized experience in cloud database maintenance and administration
• Strong experience administering cloud database platforms, including Snowflake and AWS data services
• 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 (Terraform, dbt, Python)
• 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

Responsibilities

• Administer and optimize cloud database environments, including configuration, scaling, performance tuning, and warehouse management
• Create, maintain, and govern databases, schemas, roles, and RBAC in alignment with AO security, IAM, and compliance policies
• Monitor & troubleshoot database performance, query efficiency, concurrency, capacity, & utilization
• Implement cost-optimization strategies and support TCO analysis, financial reporting, and right-sizing
• Automate database provisioning, user/role management, backups, and monitoring using SQL, Python, Terraform, or similar tooling
• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain SQL, NoSQL, and graph database platforms
• Manage database objects (tables, indexes, partitions, views, sp) and ensure optimal performance
• Implement and manage backup, recovery, replication, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions
• Support database migrations, upgrades, consolidations, and modernization initiatives
• Enforce least-privilege access, database security controls, encryption, authentication, authorization, and auditing
• Support data retention, archival, classification, and lifecycle policies
• Develop & maintain database monitoring dashboards, alerting, logging, and health-check capabilities
• Troubleshoot complex database incidents, failures, degradation, and availability issues; drive root-cause analysis
• Support DR/HA exercises, ATO documentation, security audits, and incident response for DB services
• Integrate databases with data pipelines, applications, analytics tools, and cloud data platforms
• Maintain database architecture diagrams, runbooks, performance reports, and configuration documentation
• Collaborate with Data Platform Engineers, Data Engineers, Architects, Security teams, and app teams
• Evaluate new database features, cloud capabilities, and platform enhancements; recommend adoption
• Ensure DB environments comply with all security, privacy, governance, & regulatory requirements
• Preferred Experience: Amazon RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Neptune; PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, Neo4j; AWS GovCloud; automation experience using Python, PowerShell, Terraform

Skills

Cloud database maintenance

Database administration

SQL

Python

Terraform

dbt

Snowflake

AWS data services

RBAC

Security/compliance

Documentation

Communication

Education

BA/BS or MA/MS strongly preferred

Technical Training, Certification(s) or Degree required

Tools

Snowflake

Redshift

Aurora/PostgreSQL

RDS

Neptune

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

MongoDB

Neo4j

Terraform

dbt

Python

Job description

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) is seeking a Database Administrator to support the CMM program for AO, designing, building, and maintaining cloud data platform environments such as Snowflake, Redshift, RDS, DynamoDB, and Neptune to enable scalable data engineering and governance.

The role emphasizes automation with SQL, Python, Terraform, and IaC; ensuring security, backups, DR, and ongoing optimization; collaborating with Data Platform Engineers and Security teams to deliver