Remote DBA II - Geospatial & Data Governance

ATTAINX INC; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid vacation

Medical, dental & vision insurance

401(k) matching

Tuition reimbursement

Disability coverage

Job summary

AttainX, Inc. seeks an experienced Database Administrator II to support DHS CISA IRME.

You will design, administer, and maintain geospatial and non-geospatial data repositories, ensuring data quality, governance, and reliable access for risk analytics and modeling. The role requires experience with relational databases, backups, and security controls, with a focus on data interoperability and enterprise lake architecture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred; equivalent education, training, and relevant experience will be considered.
• 3–5 years of relevant experience including hands-on database administration, SQL, performance tuning, backup recovery, access controls, and data governance.
• Experience with administering relational databases and supporting geospatial, graph, or other data repositories.
• Experience with database schemas, metadata, indexing, SQL, access management, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
• Experience implementing backups, restores, archival, and recovery procedures.
• Knowledge of data curation, quality, standardization, lineage, and governance controls.
• Familiarity with cloud data services, enterprise data lakes, data exchange, and application integration.
• Ability to document data models, security controls, operating procedures, and maintenance activities.
• US Citizenship with ability to obtain DHS CISA IRME Public Trust clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain geospatial and non-geospatial databases, including relational, graph, and other repositories.
• Maintain database architecture, schemas, metadata, system interconnections, repositories, and access controls.
• Process and curate geospatial, graph, relational, and other data; support data acquisition, generation, standardization, sharing, and decommissioning.
• Align repository integration with enterprise data lake architecture, governance, and lineage standards.
• Monitor availability, performance, capacity, and data quality; tune queries, indexes, and storage; resolve issues.
• Implement and validate backups, restoration, recovery, and archival; ensure secure access and continuity of services.
• Support interoperability and information exchange using open, accessible data standards.
• Coordinate migration and integration validation with application teams; maintain technical procedures and evidence for security authorization.

Skills

SQL

Data governance

Security controls

Capacity planning

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, data management, or related field

Tools

SQL

Geospatial databases

Azure Database Administrator

Oracle DBA

Job description

AttainX, Inc. seeks an experienced Database Administrator II to support DHS CISA IRME.

You will design, administer, and maintain geospatial and non-geospatial data repositories, ensuring data quality, governance, and reliable access for risk analytics and modeling. The role requires experience with relational databases, backups, and security controls, with a focus on data interoperability and enterprise lake architecture.