Your Impact:
Are you interested in using your skills to help shape the Cyber, Security, & Intel space? If so, look no further. Amentum is seeking a Database Administrator to join our team of passionate individuals in Chantilly, VA. In this role you will support challenging, mission-critical projects that make a direct impact on the Nation’s security and intelligence mission.
We are seeking a highly skilled Database Administrator to support our software development initiatives within our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of DBA experience with expertise in multi-tiered service-oriented architectures. As a key member of our technology organization, the Database Administrator will play a critical role in ensuring the performance, reliability, and scalability of our data infrastructure. This position directly supports our mission to deliver robust, high-performing software solutions by optimizing database systems, implementing best practices in data management, and proactively addressing performance bottlenecks.
Responsibilities:
• Define, create, maintain, backup, and secure the organization’s databases for multiple systems.
• Designs, develops, builds, analyzes, evaluates, and installs database management systems, including database modeling and design, relational database architecture, metadata, repository creation, and configuration management.
• Uses data mapping, mining, and transformational analysis tools to design and develop databases.
• Determines data storage and optimum storage requirements.
• Evaluate, size, and select technology components for database management systems and application databases, such as software, hardware, and networking capabilities.
• Writes and tunes SQL queries for performance and scalability. Implements comprehensive backup and database replication solutions. Ensures security best practices are followed and compliance with the latest STIGS.
• Set up and manage user and system accounts. Debugs and troubleshoots programs that are malfunctioning or returning/storing incorrect data.
Requirements:
• Providing support to IT systems, including day-to-day operations, monitoring, and problem resolution for client problems.
• Supporting implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of IT systems.
• Managing IT system infrastructure and any processes related to these systems.
• Performing server and storage capacity management and planning for the most complex and critical systems.
• Managing, monitoring, and administering database system performance and schedule activities.
• Performing optimization and tuning of data loads and extractions.
• Installing and configuring database environments and associated storage systems.
• Performing backups/restores and archiving data.
• Designing, developing, and maintaining database applications within the cloud, VM, and bare metal environments, including transitioning legacy applications to the cloud environment.
Clearance Required:
• TS/SCI with poly
Minimum Education:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
Minimum Years of Experience:
• 8
Preferred:
• Experience interpreting data models and developing database structures; using standard diagramming techniques to design and develop computer data models; and implementing and troubleshooting programming changes and modifications.
• DBA support of Oracle databases.
• Knowledge of database security requirements, developing, documenting, and implementing backup and recovery procedures.
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