Database Services Lead

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a DATABASE SERVICE LEAD supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects, build your skills, and grow a rewarding career.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a DATABASE SERVICE LEAD supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in Austin Texas, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter.

GDIT is partnering with the Department of Veterans Affairs to modernize and secure the enterprise systems supporting millions of Veterans. HOW A DATABASE SERVICE LEAD WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

GDIT partners with the Department of Veterans Affairs to modernize and secure enterprise systems supporting millions of Veterans. As the Database Services Lead, you will provide senior technical leadership across VA’s Oracle, SQL Server, and cloud database platforms spanning on-premises, AWS, and Azure environments. You will oversee database operations for mission-critical healthcare, pharmacy, benefits, identity, print/mail, and enterprise application services.

This role drives modernization, resilience, security compliance, observability, and unified processes across database administration, operations, and application services. You will ensure high availability, strong recoverability, and alignment with federal cybersecurity mandates, VA Handbook 6500, and Zero Trust principles.

You will integrate database services with cross-functional engineering teams, lead governance and reporting, manage modernization initiatives, and maintain operational excellence across VA’s enterprise database ecosystem., Analyze malware, binary files, customer detection tickets, and machine learning detections to improve detection efficacy and reduce false positives. Review product detections, assess binary legitimacy, address internal detection questions, and provide insights to data science teams. The role collaborates with technical account managers, incident response teams, data scientists, and malware researchers. Required capabilities include malware analysis, reverse engineering, Python scripting, binary fundamentals, threat assessment, research methods, operating systems, and AI-assisted workflow improvement.

Database Operations, Database Programs, Enterprise Application, Information Technology Operations, Technical Leadership, 10 + years of related experience, * Bachelor’s degree and 15+ years of experience in enterprise IT operations, database administration, or technical leadership.

• Experience leading federal or enterprise-scale database programs across Oracle, SQL Server, and cloud database platforms.
• Strong understanding of federal cybersecurity frameworks (NIST 800-53, RMF, Zero Trust, TIC 3.0) and database compliance requirements.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional engineering teams in multi-vendor, multi-platform environments.
• Experience modernizing database architectures, cloud transitions, virtualization migrations, and enterprise DR strategies.
• Strong skills in stakeholder communication, project management, incident response, DR/COOP alignment, and performance reporting.
• Demonstrated leadership in enterprise database operations, availability management, tuning, DR, and audit readiness.

Desired Qualifications

• Certifications such as PMP, PgMP, SAFe, ITIL v4, Oracle DBA, SQL Server MCSE, or cloud database certifications
• Experience with VA or other federal agency systems
• Experience with RMF, ATO documentation, database modernization, enterprise integrations, or high-volume workflow systems
• Technical depth in AWS/Azure cloud databases, Oracle Enterprise Manager, SQL tuning, automation, monitoring, or IaC tooling
• Experience supporting performance-based contracts with KPIs and AQLs

Be an Early Applicant In-Office or Remote Hiring Remotely in United States 138K-149K Annually Expert/Leader In-Office or Remote Hiring Remotely in United States 138K-149K Annually Expert/Leader Lead enterprise database services across Oracle, SQL Server, AWS, and Azure platforms for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Provide technical leadership for database operations, modernization, availability, disaster recovery, security compliance, observability, governance, and performance reporting. Coordinate cross-functional and multi-vendor engineering teams, support cloud transitions and virtualization migrations, maintain audit readiness, and align database services with federal cybersecurity frameworks and VA operational requirements. The summary above was generated by AI

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None, * Competitive pay, benefits, and 401(k) match

• Mission-focused culture supporting Veterans
• Opportunities to modernize VA’s cloud financial ecosystem and strengthen cost efficiency, accountability, and business value across nationwide operations OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY Explore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward.

The likely salary range for this position is $149,469 - $138,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40, Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

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