Senior Database Administrator – TS/SCI Clearance

NS2 Mission; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 151,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

NS2 Mission in Chantilly, VA is seeking a Database Administrator to maintain availability, performance, and reliability of enterprise database systems supporting Intelligence Community customers. You will collaborate with engineers, developers, and system administrators to optimize environments and implement scalable solutions for evolving mission needs.

Responsibilities include monitoring, backups and recovery, tuning, installation and maintenance of platforms, and contributing to standards,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a technical discipline.
• Experience administering enterprise database environments in production.
• Experience with performance tuning, capacity planning, backup and recovery, and monitoring.
• Knowledge of database installation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Experience supporting server infrastructure, storage systems, and operating systems.
• Familiarity with optimization techniques, query tuning, and configuration management.

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and maintain enterprise database environments to ensure optimal performance, availability, and reliability.
• Monitor database and server performance, analyze system metrics, and implement performance tuning and capacity planning strategies to support current and future operational needs.
• Perform database backups, restores, archiving, and recovery activities while ensuring the integrity and availability of mission-critical data.
• Install, configure, and maintain database platforms, storage systems, operating systems, and related infrastructure components.
• Troubleshoot database, server, hardware, and software issues, providing technical support and resolving operational problems in a timely manner.
• Partner with engineers, developers, customers, and other stakeholders to gather requirements and implement database enhancements, system upgrades, and new technologies.
• Develop and maintain database standards, configuration baselines, SLA requirements, and support technical documentation.
• Evaluate database objects, schemas, queries, and system configurations to improve performance, reliability, and overall efficiency.
• Support change management and configuration management activities by recommending process improvements, automation opportunities, and technology enhancements.
• Conduct software evaluations, proof-of-concept testing, and technology assessments while providing recommendations for infrastructure modernization and future capacity planning.

Skills

Database administration

Performance tuning

Backup & recovery

System monitoring

SLA compliance

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical discipline

Tools

PowerShell

Python

Bash

Job description

NS2 Mission in Chantilly, VA is seeking a Database Administrator to maintain availability, performance, and reliability of enterprise database systems supporting Intelligence Community customers. You will collaborate with engineers, developers, and system administrators to optimize environments and implement scalable solutions for evolving mission needs.

Responsibilities include monitoring, backups and recovery, tuning, installation and maintenance of platforms, and contributing to standards,