Remote Senior Database Administration Lead — DoD/IL5

DecisionPoint Corporation; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

DecisionPoint Corporation seeks a Senior Database Administration Lead to provide enterprise-wide leadership of database operations in IL5 cloud and on-prem environments, ensuring security, performance, and schema governance for a DoD-aligned mission.

You will oversee RMF controls, STIG compliance, backups and disaster recovery, replication and failover, and collaborate with DevSecOps and application teams to integrate database workloads across SDLC while mentoring a team of DBAs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• 10+ years in database administration/engineering roles.
• Experience leading enterprise DB environments in secure gov/DoD settings.
• Knowledge of IL5 security controls, RMF, and STIGs.
• Experience integrating DB work with SDLC and DevSecOps.
• Strong leadership, analytical and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior leadership over database operations in IL5 cloud and on-prem environments.
• Oversee schema governance, indexing, data modeling, and performance optimization.
• Ensure compliance with DoD RMF, STIG baselines, and audit readiness.
• Lead performance tuning, complex queries, and issue troubleshooting.
• Manage backup, recovery, replication, clustering, and failover strategies.
• Coordinate with DevSecOps on DB integration within CI/CD pipelines.
• Support secure SDLC processes and change control for databases.
• Mentor a team of DBAs and maintain runbooks and documentation.

Skills

Team Leadership

DBA Leadership

SQL Tuning

RMF Security

DevSecOps

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PostgreSQL

Oracle

SQL Server

MySQL

Job description

DecisionPoint Corporation seeks a Senior Database Administration Lead to provide enterprise-wide leadership of database operations in IL5 cloud and on-prem environments, ensuring security, performance, and schema governance for a DoD-aligned mission.

You will oversee RMF controls, STIG compliance, backups and disaster recovery, replication and failover, and collaborate with DevSecOps and application teams to integrate database workloads across SDLC while mentoring a team of DBAs.