Database Administrator (Senior)

These positions will administer Microsoft SQL Server environments supporting mission applications, data analysis, AI-related data activities, and data warehouse operations. The Database Administrators will maintain database health, security, performance, and recoverability while supporting approved schema changes and maintaining accurate operational documentation., The Senior Database Administrators will: Perform daily monitoring and administration of Microsoft SQL Server environments.

• Monitor database availability, performance, capacity, storage utilization, job execution, and system alerts.

• Execute scheduled maintenance, integrity checks, indexing, statistics updates, and other approved database maintenance activities.

• Plan and implement approved database patches and updates, including pre-change checks, validation, and rollback preparation.

• Administer database accounts, roles, permissions, and service access in accordance with approved access requests.

• Review access configurations and support periodic access validation.

• Execute and monitor database backups, investigate failures, and maintain backup records.

• Perform database restores and recovery testing to verify recoverability.

• Support outage restoration and database recovery in coordination with architecture, infrastructure, application, and operations teams.

• Troubleshoot database connectivity, job failures, blocking, resource contention, integrity issues, and performance degradation.

• Tune queries, indexes, configurations, and maintenance processes within approved technical standards.

• Support database and warehouse operations, including scheduled loads, data refreshes, and integration dependencies.

• Implement approved schema changes, database objects, and configuration updates.

• Coordinate changes with application, data engineering, analytics, and testing teams.

• Validate database health and dependent services following maintenance, patches, schema changes, or restoration.

• Support database security monitoring and remediation of assigned findings.

• Maintain operational logs, incident records, change documentation, configuration records, and maintenance procedures.

• Update backup, recovery, troubleshooting, and administration runbooks.

• Escalate complex architectural, availability, security, or performance issues to the Database Architect and appropriate technical leads.

• Support operational handoffs, knowledge transfer, and continuous improvement of database administration practices.

The following must-have qualifications are drawn from the supplied position requirements:

• Active Secret clearance or higher.

• Minimum of eight years of relevant professional experience.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, information systems, or a related field, or a permitted equivalent.

• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server administration.

• Experience performing database patching.

• Experience administering database access controls.

• Experience with database performance tuning.

• Experience performing database backup and recovery.

• Ability to perform daily database monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting.

• Ability to support warehouse operations, approved schema changes, and database documentation.

• CompTIA Security+ CE or another approved IAT Level II certification.

Preferred Qualifications

The following qualifications are preferred but are not required:

• Relevant database platform certification.

• Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense database environments.

• Experience with SQL Server Agent, Transact-SQL, and database administration scripting.

• Experience supporting high-availability configurations, replication, or failover operations.

• Experience supporting data warehouses, ETL/ELT jobs, and scheduled data integrations.

• Familiarity with database auditing, encryption, vulnerability remediation, and configuration hardening.

• Experience automating monitoring, maintenance, backup validation, or administrative tasks.

• Experience supporting database migrations, upgrades, refreshes, and recovery exercises.

• Familiarity with cloud-hosted or hybrid database environments.

• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and cross-team coordination skills.