Senior Enterprise DBA — Secure, High-Availability Data

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company; Charleston (WV); On-site; USD 78,000 - 119,000; Full time

Job summary

ASM Research is seeking a Mid Database Administrator to oversee the stability, performance, and security of enterprise databases supporting mission-critical government systems. You will design structures, indexing strategies, and capacity plans for scalable data services across applications.

Responsibilities include patching, upgrades, migrations, recovery tests, backup/restore, encryption, RBAC, and coordination with development, security, and operations teams to minimize downtime.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent relevant work experience.
• 4–7 years of progressive database administration experience with increasing ownership of production environments.
• Proficiency with relational database systems such as Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, or PostgreSQL, including strong understanding of database structures, principles, and best practices.
• Demonstrated experience with database security, backup and recovery, disaster recovery planning, data warehousing, ETL processes, and data integration tools.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills supporting cross-functional collaboration in enterprise environments.
• Active SECRET security clearance or ability to obtain and maintain clearance as required by the client.
• U.S. citizenship and willingness to travel less than 10% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Administer and optimize production and non-production instances of platforms such as Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, or PostgreSQL, including advanced schema design, partitioning strategies, and environment-specific configuration.
• Design and tune indexing, statistics, and query execution plans to resolve complex performance bottlenecks and ensure predictable response times for high-volume transactional and reporting workloads.
• Develop and execute robust backup, restore, and disaster recovery strategies (including full, differential, and transaction log approaches) and lead periodic recovery tests for mission-critical systems.
• Implement and review advanced security controls such as encryption at rest and in transit, role-based access models, privileged account management, and auditing to protect sensitive data in highly regulated environments.
• Lead planning and execution of database software upgrades, patching cycles, and cross-environment migrations, coordinating with application owners and operations teams to manage risk and downtime.
• Design and support data integration solutions using ETL tools and scripts to move, transform, and reconcile data across operational databases, data warehouses, and analytics platforms.
• Perform capacity planning and storage management, including growth forecasting, index maintenance strategies, and archival approaches to balance performance and cost.
• Troubleshoot complex incidents involving locking, deadlocks, blocking chains, failed jobs, and resource contention, using diagnostic tools and system views to quickly isolate root cause.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem-solving

Communication

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Oracle

SQL Server

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Job description

ASM Research is seeking a Mid Database Administrator to oversee the stability, performance, and security of enterprise databases supporting mission-critical government systems. You will design structures, indexing strategies, and capacity plans for scalable data services across applications.

Responsibilities include patching, upgrades, migrations, recovery tests, backup/restore, encryption, RBAC, and coordination with development, security, and operations teams to minimize downtime.