Senior Database Operations Lead - Hybrid On-Site MD

UMGC; Adelphi (MD); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

UMGC is seeking a Senior Administrator, Database Operations to provide senior-level administration and operational leadership for enterprise database platforms across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. The role supports critical academic, administrative, financial, and research systems with a focus on security, performance, and reliability.

You will partner with Application Engineering, Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, and Information Security to ensure resilient database services,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of database administration experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior-level administration and leadership for enterprise database platforms across production, development, testing, and disaster recovery environments.
• Administer, configure, maintain, and optimize databases across production, development, testing, and disaster recovery environments.
• Lead database provisioning, upgrades, patching, migrations, environment management, onboarding activities, and lifecycle management initiatives.
• Support modernization and cloud adoption while ensuring change management, security, and operational requirements.
• Mentor database administrators and drive automation, resilience, and operational maturity.

Skills

DB administration

Query optimization

Monitoring

Backup & DR

HA & clustering

Cloud DBs

Security & compliance

Automation scripting

Linux/Windows DB

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS

Tools

Oracle

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Azure SQL

AWS RDS

Google Cloud SQL

Job description

UMGC is seeking a Senior Administrator, Database Operations to provide senior-level administration and operational leadership for enterprise database platforms across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. The role supports critical academic, administrative, financial, and research systems with a focus on security, performance, and reliability.

You will partner with Application Engineering, Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, and Information Security to ensure resilient database services,