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# Senior Database Administrator

- **Company:** Envision-Innovative Solutions
- **Location:** Annapolis Junction, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Backup Devices, Databases, Data Architecture, Database Design, Disaster Recovery, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle (Applications), Performance Tuning, Server Administration, System Availability, Database Performance, Indexer, Data Pipelines, User Accounts
- **Published:** July 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9054643/senior-database-administrator

## About the Role

* Ten (10) years' experience as a DBA
 * Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional DBA experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
 * Extensive experience administering and optimizing enterprise database environments, ensuring high availability, security, integrity, and performance across mission-critical systems.
 * Expertise in Oracle and SQL Server database management, including performance tuning, disaster recovery, data modeling, indexing, and backup/recovery

Desired Skills:

 * Experience with database performance optimization, capacity planning, and advanced troubleshooting in high-security environments.
 * Strong understanding of data architecture, database design, and implementation of scalable data solutions.
 * Excellent analytical, documentation, and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering and infrastructure teams.

Security Clearance Requirement:

 * Current/Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph.

## Description

Envision Innovative Solutions is seeking a motivated, career-oriented, and customer-focused Senior Database Administrator to join our team in Annapolis Junction, Maryland. This onsite position is responsible for the administration, optimization, security, and availability of enterprise database environments supporting mission-critical systems., * Maintain the integrity, security, and availability of database(s)

 * Establish and maintain database user accounts
 * Administer, maintain, and implement policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of the database(s)
 * Organize and format data for efficient query and storage processes
 * Evaluate requirements and recommends available DBMS products
 * Provide server administration with a variety of database products that include Oracle, and SQL Server.
 * Perform disaster recovery, performance analysis and tuning, index maintenance, and monitoring of data
 * Develop policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of the database(s)
 * Perform database and software life-cycle activities to ensure highest level of system performance and availability
 * Support data modeling activities by way of prototype database implementation
 * Coordinate database architecture changes with Database Engineer (DBE)s
 * Direct the monitoring, administrating, and implementing performance on database systems as well as database performance optimization, developing/changing database indices, redesigning database structure and reloading data into a database
 * Direct the installation of database management systems, databases, tables and views


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