Senior PostgreSQL DBA - Top Secret Clearance, On-Site DC

Piper Companies; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 135,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Holidays

Sick leave

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a Senior Database Administrator in Washington, D.C. on-site to design, implement, and optimize enterprise database environments, focusing on PostgreSQL and AWS cloud technologies to support a DOJ program.

The role requires TOP SECRET clearance and will involve high availability, security controls, migrations, and monitoring using Prometheus or Grafana as part of enterprise data platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT or related field, plus 8+ years of experience.
• Strong PostgreSQL expertise (v13+) with tuning and optimization.
• Experience with backup, recovery, WAL archiving, and high availability.
• Experience migrating PostgreSQL/Oracle to AWS RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL.
• Knowledge of database security and access controls.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, maintain, and optimize enterprise database environments for performance and reliability.
• Administer PostgreSQL databases, including tuning, patching, capacity planning, and HA.
• Implement security controls and coordinate database changes.
• Monitor health, troubleshoot performance, and optimize queries and indexing.
• Support migrations and cloud modernization using AWS RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Database design

Performance tuning

Database security

Cloud migrations

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or related field

Tools

pg_dump/pg_restore

AWS RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a Senior Database Administrator in Washington, D.C. on-site to design, implement, and optimize enterprise database environments, focusing on PostgreSQL and AWS cloud technologies to support a DOJ program.

The role requires TOP SECRET clearance and will involve high availability, security controls, migrations, and monitoring using Prometheus or Grafana as part of enterprise data platforms.