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# Database Admin Sr Principal

- **Company:** Science Applications International Corporation
- **Location:** Herndon, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,001.0 - $240,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cloud Database, Databases, Data Migration, IBM DB2, IBM Cloud Computing, PostgreSQL, SQL Azure, Cloud Services, SQL Databases, Google Cloud, Multi-Cloud, Amazon Relational Database Service, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Microservices, Oracledb
- **Published:** September 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerarc.com/job-listing/saic-jobs-database-admin-sr-principal-53149274

## About the Role

Required:

 * Bachelors and fourteen (14) years or more experience; Masters and twelve (12) years or more experience; PhD or JD and nine (9) years or more experience.
 * Active TS/SCI with polygraph
 * Five (5) years or more of demonstrated experience in one or more of the following:
 + Leveraging cloud agnostic database services
 + Leveraging cloud solutions such as Relational, Document, and Key Value databases
 + Leveraging attributes of SQL and Non-SQL databases
 + Cloud infrastructure data migration
 + Knowledge of database administrative activities associated with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud (GCP), IBM Cloud, and/or Oracle Cloud
 + Knowledge of containers and microservices
 + Knowledge of cloud automation services

Desired:

 * Experience with three (3) or more of the following tools:
 + AWS RDS
 + Oracle DB
 + Google DB
 + Postgres
 + Elastisearch
 + Azure SQL
 + IBM DB

## Description

Description

We are seeking a Database Administrator (DBA) to join our multi-million dollar, national intelligence program supporting the Cloud Investment Multi-Cloud Management (CIMM) team. As a contributor to the intelligence community's first multi-cloud initiative, you will be at the epicenter of emergent cloud computing technologies establishing a foundation that will evolve to include all agencies within the IC. As a Database Administrator, you will oversee and influence Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) in infrastructure management and maintenance.

Qualifications

Required:

 * Bachelors and fourteen (14) years or more experience; Masters and twelve (12) years or more experience; PhD or JD and nine (9) years or more experience.
 * Active TS/SCI with polygraph
 * Five (5) years or more of demonstrated experience in one or more of the following:
 + Leveraging cloud agnostic database services
 + Leveraging cloud solutions such as Relational, Document, and Key Value databases
 + Leveraging attributes of SQL and Non-SQL databases
 + Cloud infrastructure data migration
 + Knowledge of database administrative activities associated with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud (GCP), IBM Cloud, and/or Oracle Cloud
 + Knowledge of containers and microservices
 + Knowledge of cloud automation services

Desired:

 * Experience with three (3) or more of the following tools:
 + AWS RDS
 + Oracle DB
 + Google DB
 + Postgres
 + Elastisearch
 + Azure SQL
 + IBM DB

Target salary range: $200,001 - $240,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.


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