Senior Database Administrator

Leads design, administration, tuning, security, backup, and optimization of enterprise database platforms, ensuring secure, high-performance operations across all phases of database management. Key Responsibilities

· Administer production and non-production database environments across relational platforms.

· Perform SQL and index tuning, execution plan analysis, and workload optimization.

· Design and maintain high availability and disaster recovery configurations.

· Execute backup, recovery, patching, upgrade, and capacity planning activities.

· Implement database security controls: access management, encryption, auditing, and masking.

· Establish monitoring and alerting; respond to and resolve performance and availability incidents.

· Support release activities including schema change management and data migrations.

· Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.

· Minimum Experience: Five (5) to eight (8) years of database administration experience across enterprise relational platforms.

· Certifications - Required: Platform database administration certification (e.g., Microsoft Certified Azure Database Administrator Associate, Oracle Database Administrator Certified Professional, or an equivalent PostgreSQL certification).

· Certifications - Obtainable After Hire: Cloud database specialty certification aligned to the hosting environment, within 180 days of assignment.

· Certifications - Preferred: AWS Certified Database - Specialty; CompTIA Security+; ITIL 4 Foundation.

· Required Skills: SQL tuning; high availability and disaster recovery; performance optimization; monitoring; security controls; backup and recovery; schema and change management.

· Preferred Skills: Cloud database services; automation and scripting; large transactional environments; federal sector experience. Technical Environment

Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, and MySQL; Always On Availability Groups, Oracle Data Guard, and streaming replication; RMAN and pgBackRest; SSIS and native ETL utilities; Redgate, Liquibase, or Flyway schema change management; Amazon RDS and Azure SQL Managed Instance; Transparent Data Encryption and dynamic data masking; SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer and native performance tooling; PowerShell and Python automation.

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We believe happy employees do amazing work, so join our team NOW! We are currently seeking a Senior Database Administrator for a Full-Time position., NuAxis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background investigation. Learn More about our Benefits and Culture!