Database Administrator
Description
  • Implements the full lifecycle of enterprise database and application server systems, services, and solutions, ensuring quality, stability, recoverability, and security.
  • Maintains automation solutions and scripts to streamline complex database and application server management tasks across multiple environments.
  • Diagnoses and resolves complex issues across large, multi-system environments.
  • Develops and maintains documentation for systems, services, processes, and procedures. 
  • Reviews and validates changes to ensure they do not negatively impact database security or integrity.
  • Assists application developers and functional users with database-related problems and requests.
  • Serves as a resource for database integration issues, including migrations between disparate databases, data conversion, capacity planning, and new application deployments.
  • Provides a Monthly Database Report detailing unscheduled downtime for production and non-production databases, capacity usage, and database activities. 
  • Performs full database maintenance activities, including patching, upgrades, managing table spaces and redo logs, data migrations, performance monitoring, and tuning.
  • Administers user accounts for employees and authorized contractors, including creating, granting, and revoking privileges and roles; resetting passwords; locking/unlocking accounts; setting quotas; and managing default table spaces.
  • Provides technical assistance to developers and end users for connecting client software to databases, developing SQL and shell scripts, importing/exporting schemas, answering database questions, terminating processes/threads, and migrating data.
  • Works with data owners and the ISSO to ensure personally identifiable information (PII) is encrypted in enterprise databases.
  • Supports data governance policies by ensuring data accuracy, accessibility, consistency, and completeness. 
  • Implements future DBMS requirements, including strategies for big data, relational, dimensional, and unstructured databases.
  • Supports data warehousing and business intelligence initiatives, including data mining and data movement, as implemented by the customer.
  • Performs other related duties as assigned.
Requirements
  • Attain and maintain a secret clearance 
  • IAT II certification 
  • 2+ years’ experience with database administration