Senior Database Administrator

NuAxis Innovations; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

NuAxis Innovations is seeking a Senior Database Administrator for a full-time position to lead design, administration, tuning, security, backup, and optimization of enterprise database platforms in a federal IT context.

The role covers production and non-production environments across SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL with modern HA/DR strategies, encryption, auditing, and monitoring. Candidates need 5–8 years of DBA experience and relevant certifications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.
• 5–8 years of database administration across enterprise relational platforms.
• Required: Microsoft Azure Database Administrator Associate OR Oracle DBA OR PostgreSQL certification.
• After hire: cloud database specialty cert within 180 days.
• Preferred: AWS Certified Database – Specialty; CompTIA Security+; ITIL 4 Foundation.
• Skills include SQL tuning, HA/DR, performance optimization, monitoring, security controls, backup and recovery, schema/change management.
• Preferred: cloud DB services, automation & scripting, large transactional environments, federal sector experience.

Responsibilities

• Administer production and non-production database environments across relational platforms.
• Perform SQL tuning, index tuning, execution plan analysis, and workload optimization.
• Design and maintain high availability and disaster recovery configurations.
• Execute backup, recovery, patching, upgrade, and capacity planning activities.
• Implement database security controls: access management, encryption, auditing, and masking.
• Establish monitoring and alerting; respond to performance and availability incidents.
• Support release activities including schema change management and data migrations.

Skills

SQL tuning

HA/DR

Performance optimization

Monitoring

Security controls

Backup and recovery

Schema change management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS

Microsoft Certified Azure Database Administrator Associate

Oracle Database Administrator Certified Professional

PostgreSQL certification

Cloud database specialty certification (obtainable after hire)

Tools

SQL Server

Oracle Database

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Always On / Data Guard / streaming replication

RMAN / pgBackRest

SSIS

AWS RDS / Azure SQL Managed Instance

Job description

We are a federal IT company on a mission to make customer experience (CX) the center of every government solution. Technology is our Passion. People are our Purpose. We know tech, but we love people. NuAxis is home to thinkers and feelers; engineers and artists. We work hard and support each other along the way. Teamwork is more than just a buzzword for us, it’s a state of mind.

We believe happy employees do amazing work. We are currently seeking a Senior Database Administrator for a Full-Time position.

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Job Summary

Leads design, administration, tuning, security, backup, and optimization of enterprise database platforms, ensuring secure, high-performance operations across all phases of database management.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer production and non-production database environments across relational platforms.
• Perform SQL and index tuning, execution plan analysis, and workload optimization.
• Design and maintain high availability and disaster recovery configurations.
• Execute backup, recovery, patching, upgrade, and capacity planning activities.
• Implement database security controls: access management, encryption, auditing, and masking.
• Establish monitoring and alerting; respond to and resolve performance and availability incidents.
• Support release activities including schema change management and data migrations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Minimum Experience: Five (5) to eight (8) years of database administration experience across enterprise relational platforms.
• Certifications — Required: Platform database administration certification (e.g., Microsoft Certified Azure Database Administrator Associate, Oracle Database Administrator Certified Professional, or an equivalent PostgreSQL certification).
• Certifications — Obtainable After Hire: Cloud database specialty certification aligned to the hosting environment, within 180 days of assignment.
• Certifications — Preferred: AWS Certified Database – Specialty; CompTIA Security+; ITIL 4 Foundation.
• Required Skills: SQL tuning; high availability and disaster recovery; performance optimization; monitoring; security controls; backup and recovery; schema and change management.
• Preferred Skills: Cloud database services; automation and scripting; large transactional environments; federal sector experience.

Technical Environment

Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, and MySQL; Always On Availability Groups, Oracle Data Guard, and streaming replication; RMAN and pgBackRest; SSIS and native ETL utilities; Redgate, Liquibase, or Flyway schema change management; Amazon RDS and Azure SQL Managed Instance; Transparent Data Encryption and dynamic data masking; SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer and native performance tooling; PowerShell and Python automation.

Our Profile

We are an IT company with a unique mission—to make people the center of every federal IT solution. Our technologists have always gone the extra mile to help our federal clients succeed. And over the years, we saw a growing disconnect in how federal IT initiatives were built and managed. Time after time, programs failed because the focus was on the tools and products and not the people using them.

Benefits and Culture

NuAxis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background investigation.