Senior Database Administrator: Cloud & Onsite DataOps Lead

Piper Companies; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions in Huntsville, AL seeks a Senior Database Administrator to manage mission critical databases across cloud and on‑prem environments. The role is 100% onsite and requires a Top Secret clearance. You will improve performance, security, and availability while facilitating legacy modernization.

Responsibilities include tuning SQL, managing backups, and implementing RBAC and encryption, with experience in PostgreSQL/Oracle/SQL Server/MySQL and cloud services preferred.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret security clearance required.
• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years in database administration.
• Expertise with PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server or MySQL.
• Hands-on SQL optimization, indexing, and performance tuning.
• Cloud database experience with AWS RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB preferred.
• Security, encryption, backup/recovery, clustering, and replication knowledge.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation and communication skills.
• Experience with ETL, data migration, containerization, DevSecOps; Python, Bash or PowerShell preferred.

Responsibilities

• Configure, administer, and maintain relational and NoSQL databases; monitor health and availability.
• Optimize SQL queries, stored procedures, indexes, and configurations for throughput.
• Manage backups, restores, patching, upgrades, replication, and recovery workflows.
• Implement encryption, auditing, RBAC, and database hardening with security teams.
• Support cloud migrations, troubleshoot data pipelines, and maintain runbooks and reports.

Skills

SQL optimization

Performance tuning

Troubleshooting

Security best practices

Stored procedures

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT

Tools

PostgreSQL

Oracle

SQL Server

MySQL

AWS RDS

Aurora

DynamoDB

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions in Huntsville, AL seeks a Senior Database Administrator to manage mission critical databases across cloud and on‑prem environments. The role is 100% onsite and requires a Top Secret clearance. You will improve performance, security, and availability while facilitating legacy modernization.

Responsibilities include tuning SQL, managing backups, and implementing RBAC and encryption, with experience in PostgreSQL/Oracle/SQL Server/MySQL and cloud services preferred.