Senior DBA

Eliassen Group; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 83,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior DBA for a remote contract role supporting a Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement program. You will design and optimize PostgreSQL and MySQL on Amazon RDS, automate deployments, and manage upgrades, recovery, and performance improvements across online and batch applications.

The role requires working with AWS Glue, Athena, and related services, plus containerized workloads on ECS/EKS. A US citizenship or permanent residency with public trust is required.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS services and cloud-based DB design.
• Ability to design, deploy, and optimize PostgreSQL/MySQL on Amazon RDS.
• Experience with automation scripts (Python, Shell, Ansible).
• Security clearances and federal program experience are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements to propose database solutions for Java-based and AWS Glue/Spark systems.
• Coordinate with teams to define system requirements and data flows for DB components.
• Design and deploy scalable PostgreSQL/MySQL solutions on Amazon RDS.
• Create and maintain DB scripts, stored procedures, and views; automate with scripts.
• Manage upgrades, backups, failover, and DR plans.
• Monitor and optimize DB health and performance with CloudWatch Insights.

Skills

Java

PySpark

Team collaboration

Tools

AWS Glue

Athena

Lambda

Lake Formation

QuickSight

DynamoDB

Redshift

MSK/Kafka

Kinesis

ElastiCache

OpenSearch

Docker

Kubernetes

ECS/EKS

RDS Proxy

Job description

Senior DBA

Anywhere

Type: Contract

Category: Data

Industry: Government

Workplace Type: Remote

Standard Hours: Open

Rate: $60.00 to $65.00/hr. w2

Description

Remote

Our client seeks a Senior DBA to support database operations and design improvements for a portfolio of online and batch applications serving a Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement program. The role will analyze requirements, design and optimize PostgreSQL and MySQL on Amazon RDS, automate deployments, manage upgrades and recovery, and drive performance and capacity improvements while coordinating with cross-functional teams.

Due to federal security clearance requirements, applicant must be a United States Citizen or Permanent Resident with an active Public Trust clearance. We can facilitate w2 and corp-to-corp consultants. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.

Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients’ capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.

Eliassen is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an Equal Opportunity and Affidative Action Employer and all employment decisions are based on merit, performance, and business needs. Eliassen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender identity or expression, sexual preference or orientation, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), marital status, creed, religion, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, age, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, prohibited criminal record inquiries of applicants and employees, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business and technical requirements to propose database solutions for online and batch Java-based and AWS Glue/Apache Spark-based systems, including troubleshooting deadlocks, long-running transactions, and connection pool or isolation level issues.
• Coordinate with business and technology teams to define system requirements, data flows, and testing support for database components.
• Design and deploy scalable, high-performance PostgreSQL and MySQL solutions on Amazon RDS, and recommend schema and data model improvements.
• Create, deploy, and maintain database scripts, stored procedures, tables, triggers, and materialized views, using automation and scripting with Python, Shell, Ansible, and AWS CloudFormation.
• Manage database operations with minimal oversight including configuration, upgrades including blue/green, restores with pg_dump and pg_restore, schema changes, user and password management, failover, disaster recovery, and replication.
• Communicate and coordinate database changes and operations with management, developers, and users.
• Assess and improve capacity and performance, including capacity planning, right-sizing RDS instances, storage autoscaling, and resource forecasting.
• Maintain a central repository of data architecture artifacts including data dictionaries, procedures, scripts, and security controls.
• Maintain and test backup and recovery strategies for applications and databases.
• Perform troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and issue resolution.
• Monitor database health, transactions, and resource utilization using tools such as Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights.

Experience Requirements

• Experience creating and administering AWS Glue databases and Athena tables.
• Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, Lake Formation, QuickSight, DynamoDB, Redshift, MSK/Kafka, Kinesis, ElastiCache, and OpenSearch.
• Experience with containerization such as Docker or Kubernetes, including PostgreSQL and MySQL workloads on Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS, or via RDS Proxy.
• Experience supporting Java and PySpark applications.
• Experience developing and executing Ansible scripts.