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# Senior Database Administrator

- **Company:** NuAxis Innovations
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Backup Devices, Cloud Database, CompTIA Security+, Databases, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Database Security, Oracle Data Guard, Disaster Recovery, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Liquibase, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Azure, MySQL, Operational Databases, Oracle Databases, Performance Tuning, Windows PowerShell, Recovery Manager (RMAN), SQL Databases, SQL Server Integration Services, Data Streaming, Database Performance Analyzer, System Availability, Amazon Relational Database Service, Information Technology, SolarWinds (Software), Redgate, Sql Tuning
- **Published:** October 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9229763/senior-database-administrator

## About the Role

· 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.

## Description

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.