Remote Database Administrator - Informix/MySQL, Cloud Ops

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 98,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plan options

Health Savings Account

Dental plan

Vision plan

401(k) with company match

Flexible work weeks

Paid time off

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. (GDIT) seeks a Database Administrator to support PACER/CMECF-related databases, including Informix and MySQL, across on‑prem and cloud environments.

Responsibilities include lifecycle administration, performance tuning, and security hardening to ensure compliant operations for court electronic records. The role requires 7+ years IT experience or a relevant advanced degree, with strong SQL, automation, and collaboration across security, data, and

Qualifications

• MA/MS degree with 5+ years or BS/BA degree with 7+ years of general IT experience.
• 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.
• Ability to automate database administration using IaC and scripting.
• Familiarity with federal security, compliance, and audit requirements.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem‑solving skills.

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, including 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 of related IT experience

BS/BA degree with 7+ years of general IT experience

Tools

Informix

MySQL

RDS

Job description

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. (GDIT) seeks a Database Administrator to support PACER/CMECF-related databases, including Informix and MySQL, across on‑prem and cloud environments.

Responsibilities include lifecycle administration, performance tuning, and security hardening to ensure compliant operations for court electronic records. The role requires 7+ years IT experience or a relevant advanced degree, with strong SQL, automation, and collaboration across security, data, and