Senior Database Administrator - 175369 - 176307

Zachary Piper Solutions; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 135,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cigna Medical

Dental

Vision

401K

PTO

Holidays

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a Senior Database Administrator in Washington DC for on-site work. You will design, implement, and optimize enterprise PostgreSQL environments, ensuring data integrity, security, and performance across AWS cloud databases and on-premises platforms.

The role requires 8+ years of experience, strong backup/recovery skills with pg_dump/pg_restore, WAL archiving, and high availability configurations, plus migration experience across PostgreSQL, Oracle, and AWS RDS/Aurora

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT or related field with 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Extensive experience designing, implementing, and maintaining complex database environments.
• Hands-on PostgreSQL (v13+) tuning, patching, capacity planning, and optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, maintain, and optimize enterprise database environments for performance and reliability.
• Administer PostgreSQL databases including configuration, tuning, backup, recovery, and HA solutions.
• Implement database security controls and coordinate changes with systems teams.

Skills

PostgreSQL

AWS Cloud

High Availability

Database Security

Migrations

Monitoring: Prometheus & Grafana

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related field

Tools

pg_dump/pg_restore

WAL archiving

Oracle migrations

AWS RDS

Aurora PostgreSQL

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Senior Database Administrator. This job is located in Washington D.C. and will be On-Site. The Senior Database Administrator will be responsible for designing, implementing, maintaining, and optimizing enterprise database environments while ensuring data integrity, security, and performance. This is an exciting opportunity to work with PostgreSQL, AWS cloud database technologies, high availability solutions, and enterprise data platforms in Washington D.C. supporting a DOJ Program.

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Responsibilities of the Senior Database Administrator include:

• Design, implement, maintain, and optimize enterprise database environments while ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Administer PostgreSQL databases, including configuration, tuning, patching, capacity planning, backup, recovery, and high availability solutions.
• Implement database security controls, coordinate database changes, and support system integration initiatives.
• Monitor database health, troubleshoot performance issues, optimize queries and indexing strategies, and establish alerting solutions.
• Support database migrations, cloud modernization efforts, and AWS RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL environments.

Qualifications for the Senior Database Administrator include:

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or a related field, or equivalent experience, and 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong experience designing, implementing, and maintaining complex database environments and database management systems.
• Hands-on experience administering PostgreSQL (v13+) including performance tuning, patching, capacity planning, and database optimization.
• Experience implementing backup and recovery solutions using pg_dump/pg_restore, WAL archiving, replication, and high availability configurations.
• Experience with PostgreSQL query tuning, indexing, partitioning, performance analysis, and database monitoring tools.
• Experience planning and executing database migrations, including PostgreSQL, Oracle, AWS RDS, and Aurora PostgreSQL environments.
• Knowledge of database security, access controls, and security best practices for safeguarding enterprise data.
• Experience establishing monitoring and alerting solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, or similar observability platforms, with strong communication and troubleshooting skills.

Compensation for the Senior Database Administrator include:

• Salary Range: $135,000 - $175,000
• Comprehensive Benefits: Cigna Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, PTO, Sick Leave if required by law, and Holidays