Senior Database Administrator - Cloud Migrations & Security

International Executive Service Corps; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NuAxis is seeking a talented Database Administrator (DBA) for a full-time role. It owns database availability, performance, security, and migration readiness across a legacy IBM DB2 estate and cloud-managed relational databases.

You will guide migrations from on-prem to cloud services, optimize schemas, and partner with developers to validate data migrations in a regulated environment.

The position emphasizes security hardening, HA/DR design, and collaboration with federal customers.

Qualifications

• 7+ years as a DBA on production systems.
• Hands-on IBM DB2 administration (v10.x+).
• Cloud DB experience with AWS Aurora/RDS.
• Advanced SQL, stored procedures, performance tuning.
• Backup/recovery, HA/DR, and replication.
• DB security hardening and regulatory compliance.
• Automation scripting (Python, Shell) & IaC.
• CI/CD migrations with version-controlled schemas.
• Hybrid legacy-to-cloud DB2/MySQL/PostgreSQL.
• PII handling and audit logging best practices.

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and tune production and non-production databases; proactive alerting and maintenance.
• Support migration from on-prem to cloud-managed services; schema conversion and cutover planning.
• Design schemas, indexes, partitioning, and stored procedures; optimize queries and root-cause analysis.
• Maintain security controls: access, encryption, auditing, and privileged access management.
• Maintain baseline configurations and inventories on a defined cadence.
• Manage backup, recovery, replication, and high availability configurations; test recovery procedures.
• Remediate database vulnerabilities; ensure supported release windows.
• Support developers with data access patterns and migration validation.
• Support DB2-to-cloud migration planning for modernization projects.
• Maintain inventories per configuration-management requirements.
• Support monitoring, RCAs, vulnerability remediation, and release evidence.

Skills

IBM DB2

AWS Aurora

SQL Tuning

Backup & Recovery

Security Hardening

Python

CI/CD Migrations

Hybrid Cloud

PII Handling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

NuAxis is seeking a talented Database Administrator (DBA) for a full-time role. It owns database availability, performance, security, and migration readiness across a legacy IBM DB2 estate and cloud-managed relational databases.

You will guide migrations from on-prem to cloud services, optimize schemas, and partner with developers to validate data migrations in a regulated environment.

The position emphasizes security hardening, HA/DR design, and collaboration with federal customers.