Senior Database Administrator — Informix & MySQL (Remote)

Gdit; United States; Remote; USD 98,000 - 132,000; Full time

Job summary

GDIT is seeking a Database Administrator to support the Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AOUSC). The AOUSC oversees court and judicial case management systems, including CM/ECF and PACER, providing secure public access to records.

The Database Administrator will design, operate, and support services enabling CM/ECF and PACER, performing Tier 3 support across environments and ensuring security, reliability, and compliance.

Qualifications

• MA/MS degree with 5+ years or BS/BA degree with 7+ years in IT systems.
• Strong experience administering cloud database platforms, including Informix and MySQL.
• Expertise in SQL, performance tuning, workload management, and database optimization.
• Experience operating databases in AWS or hybrid cloud environments.
• Proven ability to automate database administration using IaC and scripting.
• Familiarity with federal security, compliance, and audit requirements.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with technical and business teams.
• Effective communication and documentation skills.
• Knowledge of modern monitoring/observability tools and CI/CD workflows.
• Experience applying industry best practices and emerging data platform technologies.
• Consultant mindset and ability to work with stakeholders to define and improve database operations.
• Tools & Technologies: Informix, MySQL, RDS, monitoring/observability tools.

Responsibilities

• Provide full operational lifecycle support of Informix, MySQL and other databases including administration, configuration, maintenance, performance tuning and security.
• Work with enterprise DBAs to install, configure, secure, maintain, deploy, and support databases which reside on enterprise systems.
• Develop templates and implement standard configurations for all databases.
• Configure, maintain, and support Enterprise Replication services where required.
• Monitor database health and actively mitigate potential issues and downtime.
• Implement changes in all environments through approved change management processes. This includes after business hours work for changes to production systems.
• Participate in the design and implementation of changes to new and existing database schemas.
• Participate in the planning and implementation of data migration strategies.
• Write SQL queries to extract data to support program and stakeholder requests.
• Work with enterprise administrators to ensure that databases are being backed up and perform annual recovery tests.
• Collaborate with Data Platform Engineers, Data Engineers, Architects, Security teams, and app teams.
• Ensure DB environments comply with all security, privacy, governance, & regulatory requirements.

Skills

Database Operations

Database Optimization

IBM Informix

MySQL

Education

MA/MS degree with 5+ years or BS/BA with 7+ years in IT systems

Tools

Informix

MySQL

RDS

Monitoring/observability tools

Job description

GDIT is seeking a Database Administrator to support the Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AOUSC). The AOUSC oversees court and judicial case management systems, including CM/ECF and PACER, providing secure public access to records.

The Database Administrator will design, operate, and support services enabling CM/ECF and PACER, performing Tier 3 support across environments and ensuring security, reliability, and compliance.