USAF - Sr. Database Administrator

cFocus Software seeks a Sr. Database Administrator to join our program supporting the United States Air Force. This position is onsite with the onsite location being in Ellsworth, South Dakota. This position requires a TS/SCI SSBI clearance., * Provide senior-level DB2 database engineering, administration, sustainment, and technical support for FMWF production and associated environments.

• Design, review, implement, and maintain database schemas, objects, structures, relationships, indexes, storage configurations, and data architecture.
• Perform database performance analysis, workload assessment, capacity planning, query optimization, index tuning, statistics maintenance, and root cause engineering.
• Monitor database availability, health, utilization, locking, logging, storage, replication or recovery dependencies, and other performance indicators; resolve degradation proactively.
• Protect data integrity and consistency through technical controls, validation, reconciliation, constraint management, and disciplined database-change practices.
• Engineer, execute, test, and document backup, restoration, recovery, off-site protection, and resilience capabilities consistent with data sensitivity and mission requirements.
• Develop and validate database recovery procedures and support COOP, disaster recovery, contingency, routine maintenance, and emergency corrective actions.
• Ensure reliable cross-stack integration among DB2 databases, WebSphere middleware, application components, Windows/Linux systems, virtualization, storage, identity services, and security tooling.
• Analyze proposed database and system modifications, assess dependencies and risks, implement approved changes, and validate post-deployment performance.
• Maintain configuration baselines and technical documentation for database software, parameters, schemas, jobs, interfaces, backup/recovery settings, and operating procedures.
• Engineer, test, and validate database patches, upgrades, fixes, security directives, and configuration changes in controlled development/test environments before production release.
• Support test data management and ensure development/test database assets are protected and controlled.
• Conduct advanced diagnostics, log and trace analysis, fault isolation, debugging, and sustainable corrective engineering as Level III technical escalation support.
• Coordinate with system administrators, WebSphere/middleware engineers, developers, cybersecurity personnel, program management, and Government stakeholders.
• Implement and sustain applicable security controls, vulnerability remediation, least-privilege access, auditability, and authorization evidence for database components.
• Support technical reviews, configuration reviews, readiness reviews, change management, QASP performance monitoring, and production-readiness decisions.
• Maintain accurate, version-controlled engineering records, performance data, test results, recovery evidence, procedures, and status reports.

• Active TS/SCI SSBI clearance
• B.S. Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• 10+ years of Database Administration experience
• Advanced experience administering and engineering enterprise IBM DB2 databases in high-availability, mission-critical environments.
• Demonstrated expertise in DB2 schema design, data modeling, database objects, SQL, query optimization, indexing, statistics, storage, and performance tuning.
• Experience with database performance engineering, capacity analysis, monitoring, root cause analysis, and sustainable corrective action.
• Experience engineering and validating backup, restore, recovery, data protection, integrity, resilience, COOP, and disaster-recovery capabilities.
• Experience integrating DB2 with WebSphere middleware and underlying Windows/Linux, virtualization, storage, network, identity, and application infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with configuration management, technical baselines, controlled changes, patching, upgrades, deployment validation, and post-change performance verification.
• Ability to provide Level III support involving advanced diagnostics, log/trace analysis, debugging, fault isolation, and resolution of complex cross-stack problems.
• Working knowledge of cybersecurity control implementation, vulnerability remediation, least privilege, database auditing, RMF/A&A evidence, and DoD/Air Force compliance.
• Strong technical documentation, quality-control, automation/scripting, problem-solving, stakeholder-coordination, and communication skills.

Invitation for Job Applicants to Self-Identify as a U.S. Veteran

• A “disabled veteran” is one of the following:
• a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or
• a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.
• A “recently separated veteran” means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran’s discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.
• An “active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran” means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.
• An “Armed forces service medal veteran” means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.