Senior Database Administrator: High Availability & Security

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

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.