Senior Database Services Lead — Remote & Cloud Modernization

General Dynamics IT; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

AI-enabled professional growth tools

Leadership development

401(k) match

Mission-focused culture supporting VA

Job summary

General Dynamics IT seeks a Database Services Lead to provide senior technical leadership across VA’s Oracle, SQL Server, and cloud database platforms, spanning on‑premises, AWS, and Azure environments.

You will drive modernization, resilience, and security compliance for mission-critical healthcare, benefits, identity, and enterprise services, ensuring high availability and audit readiness in a federal context.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 15+ years in enterprise IT operations or database leadership.
• Experience leading federal or enterprise-scale database programs (Oracle, SQL Server, cloud databases).
• Strong understanding of federal cybersecurity frameworks (NIST 800‑53, RMF, Zero Trust) and database compliance.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional engineering teams in multi-vendor, multi-platform environments.
• Experience modernizing database architectures, cloud transitions, virtualization migrations, and enterprise DR strategies.
• Strong skills in stakeholder communication, project management, incident response, DR/COOP alignment, and performance reporting.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior technical leadership across VA’s Oracle, SQL Server, and cloud database platforms.
• Oversee database operations for mission-critical healthcare, benefits, identity, and enterprise services.
• Drive modernization, resilience, security compliance, observability, and unified processes across database administration.

Skills

Database leadership

Oracle & SQL Server

Cloud databases (AWS/Azure)

Federal cybersecurity (NIST RMF Zero‑t

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

Oracle Enterprise Manager

SQL Server Management

IaC tooling

Job description

General Dynamics IT seeks a Database Services Lead to provide senior technical leadership across VA’s Oracle, SQL Server, and cloud database platforms, spanning on‑premises, AWS, and Azure environments.

You will drive modernization, resilience, and security compliance for mission-critical healthcare, benefits, identity, and enterprise services, ensuring high availability and audit readiness in a federal context.