The Entwistle Company is seeking a forward-thinking and analytical Junior Database Administrator to build a long-term career in our collaborative and innovative environment.

In this role, you’ll help deliver mission-critical components that support U.S. and allied defense, with your skills, creativity, and impact directly contributing to national and global security. We value talent, encourage innovation, and promote professional growth.

Ready to make a real difference? Join us.

Our Mission Statement

1. To be an essential provider of mission-critical defense components & systems, spanning air, land, sea and space, recognized for our specialized capabilities, quality and dependability.
2. To design, manufacture & build-to-print innovative and cost-effective products.
3. To help our DoD, Prime and Foreign Military customers and US warfighter succeed in their missions.

At The Entwistle Company, our values—Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Commitment—guide everything we do, from daily decisions to long-term strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Administer and optimize the databases supporting Global Shop Solutions and other business applications, including Actian Zen/Pervasive PSQL and Microsoft SQL Server where applicable. 
• Develop and troubleshoot SQL queries, data extracts, interfaces, and operational reports; maintain data definitions and validate results with process owners. 
• Manage backup, retention, restoration, and disaster recovery for the ERP system. 
• Administer ERP and database security, privileged access, audit logging, and access reviews; support CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, CUI, and ITAR evidence and remediation. 
• Serve as primary Global Shop Solutions administrator for configuration, licensing, troubleshooting, upgrades, testing, integrations, and vendor-supported changes. 
• Monitor ERP interfaces, scheduled data exchanges, jobs, storage, logs, performance, availability, and capacity; resolve or escalate issues before operations are disrupted. 
• Manage ERP vendor, including incidents, releases, licensing, support, service commitments, and recovery responsibilities. 
• Provide ERP user support and technical training, escalating business-process decisions to the appropriate owner. 
• Administer permissions, roles, approvals, terminations, access reviews, and segregation-of-duties controls for the ERP system. 
• Maintain technical documentation for architecture, interfaces, data flows, configurations, licenses, vendors, procedures, and support dependencies. 

What We Offer:

• 401k – 4% match on 5% deferrals
• PTO – Up to 5 weeks
• Employer Paid Life Insurance
• Employer Paid Short-term and Long-term Disability
• Employer provided Paid Family/Medical Leave
• Generous Health Insurance Coverage
• Dental Insurance AND Vision Insurance
• Safety Shoes & Glasses reimbursements
• Employee Appreciation Events

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience. 
• 3-5 years of hands-on relational database and ERP administration experience, including security, troubleshooting, upgrades, integrations, backup and recovery, and production support. 
• Experience supporting ERP systems in a manufacturing or industrial environment. 
• Proficiency with SQL queries, extracts, interfaces, operational reports, data validation, and transaction tracing. 
• Experience administering Microsoft SQL Server or comparable platforms, including security, performance, backup and recovery, and change control. 
• Working knowledge of cloud application administration. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Hands-on Global Shop Solutions administration, including security, configuration, reporting, integrations, upgrades, testing, licensing, and vendor support. 
• ERP administration in discrete manufacturing or defense contracting, including inventory, MRP, scheduling, shop-floor transactions, job costing, and financial interfaces. 
• Vendor-hosted ERP upgrades, migrations, integration changes, and recovery testing, including validation, rollback planning, documentation, and production approval. 
• ERP integrations, APIs, secure file transfers, scheduled exchanges, Power Platform, or Power BI, including failure monitoring and data reconciliation. 
• Azure SQL Server or related Microsoft services. 
• Hands-on support for NIST SP 800-171, CMMC, CUI, ITAR, or similar controls, audit evidence, access reviews, logging, and remediation. 
• PowerShell, SQL scripting, Python, APIs, or similar tools for repeatable system-administration and monitoring tasks. 

Related Military Job Codes:

We value military experience and recognize transferable skills. Candidates with the following military job codes or similar may have relevant experience for this position:

• Army MOS: 25D – Cyber Network Defender
• Navy NEC: IT – Information Systems Technician
• Air Force AFSC: 3D0X4 – Computer Systems Programming
• Marine Corps MOS: 0651 – Cyber Network Operator

Competitive pay based on experience.