Senior Database Administrator — Remote Data Platform

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Paid time off

Career development opportunities

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to support the Case Management Modernization program for AOUSC.

You will maintain mission-critical databases, ensure high availability, and collaborate with data architecture, governance, and migration teams. You will work in a remote environment in the United States, performing on-call coverage, incident response, and advanced data analysis, including ETL, data modeling, and cloud-based database solutions

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer programming, computer engineering, or relevant computer-based major and 5+ years of experience in server database maintenance and database analysis.
• Preferred: Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of experience in server database maintenance and database analysis.
• Please Note: 4+ years of additional experience may be considered in lieu of bachelor's degree.

Responsibilities

• Provides production support for mission-critical database environments, including shift-based coverage and on-call support.
• Monitors database performance, responds to incidents, troubleshoots production issues, and coordinates with teams to restore service quickly.
• Performs root-cause analysis for production defects and contributes to stability improvements.
• Works in an Agile environment with daily scrums and sprint planning.
• Develops operating standards and best practices for performance, security, scalability, and maintainability.
• Ensures data elements and standards are defined and coordinated for data relationships and systems integration.
• Participates in database management policy development and data administration.
• Collaborates with Product Owners and stakeholders to map business requirements to technical solutions.
• Demonstrates ability to document complex workflow designs for project teams.
• Analyzes data to guide business decisions using statistical techniques and data visualization.
• Hosts peer reviews of code and ensures data validation and integrity.
• Develops stored procedures, jobs, views, and tables in SQL Server Management Studio.
• Designs scalable data models for Databricks lakehouse environments across bronze, silver, and gold layers.
• Develops and deploys ETL with CI/CD pipelines; exposure to version control systems.
• Works with Atlassian suite for project management.
• Indexes logs in Splunk and builds dashboards and reports.

Skills

AWS Aurora PostgreSQL

Databricks

SQL Server Management Studio

Splunk

Atlassian Suite

Data modeling

Data migration

Cloud-based DB solutions

Agile / Scrum

On-call support

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer programming, computer engineering, or relevant computer-based major

7+ years of experience in server database maintenance and database analysis

Tools

Databricks

AWS

Splunk

SQL Server Management Studio

Atlassian Suite

Job description

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to support the Case Management Modernization program for AOUSC.

You will maintain mission-critical databases, ensure high availability, and collaborate with data architecture, governance, and migration teams. You will work in a remote environment in the United States, performing on-call coverage, incident response, and advanced data analysis, including ETL, data modeling, and cloud-based database solutions