Senior Database Administrator: Secure, High-Perf DBs

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company; Montgomery (AL); On-site; USD 78,000 - 119,000; Full time

Job summary

ASM Research in Montgomery, AL is seeking a Mid-level Database Administrator to ensure the stability, performance, and security of enterprise databases supporting mission-critical systems in a highly regulated environment. You will design scalable structures and coordinate with development, infrastructure, and cybersecurity teams.

The role emphasizes backup, disaster recovery testing, security controls, upgrades, and data integration across operational databases, data warehouses, and analytics

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 4–7 years of progressive database administration experience.
• Proficiency with Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, or PostgreSQL and solid DB design knowledge.
• Experience with database security, backup and recovery, disaster recovery planning, data warehousing, ETL processes, and data integration tools.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills for cross-functional work.
• Active SECRET security clearance or ability to obtain and maintain clearance as required by the client.
• U.S. citizenship and willingness to travel less than 10% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Administer and optimize production and non-production databases (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL) with advanced schema design.
• Design and tune indexing, statistics, and query plans for high-volume workloads.
• Develop backup, restore, and disaster recovery strategies and lead recovery tests.
• Implement strong security controls including encryption, RBAC, privileged access, and auditing.
• Lead database upgrades, patch cycles, and cross-environment migrations.
• Design and support ETL data integration across operational databases, data warehouses, and analytics platforms.
• Perform capacity planning and storage management to balance performance and cost.
• Troubleshoot incidents such as deadlocks and long-running queries using diagnostics.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Communication

Teamwork

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Oracle

SQL Server

MySQL

PostgreSQL

ETL tools

Job description

ASM Research in Montgomery, AL is seeking a Mid-level Database Administrator to ensure the stability, performance, and security of enterprise databases supporting mission-critical systems in a highly regulated environment. You will design scalable structures and coordinate with development, infrastructure, and cybersecurity teams.

The role emphasizes backup, disaster recovery testing, security controls, upgrades, and data integration across operational databases, data warehouses, and analytics