Senior DBA: Cloud, Security & Modernization

CGI Njoyn

Huntsville (AL)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

CGI Federal is seeking a Senior Database Administrator (DBA) to design, administer, optimize, and sustain mission‑critical database environments across cloud and on‑prem infrastructures, ensuring reliability, security, and performance for a federal modernization program.

You will collaborate with engineering, DevSecOps, data migration, and application teams to maintain high‑quality data operations, perform backups and recoveries, implement RBAC and encryption, and support cloud migrations to AWS

Qualifications

Active Top Secret Security Clearance required.
U.S. Citizenship required.
Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of database administration or data platform operations experience.
Expertise with enterprise RDBMS platforms (PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, etc.).
Experience with SQL optimization, stored procedures, indexing strategies, and tuning.
Experience supporting cloud database platforms (AWS RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB preferred).
Strong understanding of database security, encryption, backup/recovery, clustering, and replication.
Strong troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

Administer, configure, and maintain relational and NoSQL databases.
Monitor database health, performance, storage utilization, and availability.
Optimize queries, indexes, and configurations for performance.
Conduct maintenance including backups, restores, patching, upgrades, and replication.
Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and recoverability across environments.
Implement database security controls, encryption, auditing, and RBAC policies.
Support cloud database operations and migrations (AWS preferred).
Collaborate with engineering, DevSecOps, data migration, and application teams.