Senior Database Administrator

Overview

TISTA Science and Technology Corporation, a CMMI Maturity Level 3 company, focuses on delivering information technology and professional services to Federal and State agencies. TISTA is recognized in 2019 by Inc. 5000 as one of the fastest growing private companies in the US. TISTA is also a recipient of 2019 Top Veteran-Owned Companies by the Washington Business Journal. TISTA also received a 2018 Moxie Award in the GovCon category. 

 

Are you a Database Administrator that would like to be part of delivering initiatives for digitization, automation, modernization, and interoperability of systems and processes to provide Veterans and their families the most efficient and timely service and benefits? Our team will provide application modernization, implementing a standard platform, common data sharing models, and establish a standardized approach to software delivery resulting in a positive impact for millions of people. If so, we may have an opportunity for you! 

Responsibilities

• Review, design and develop data models in conjunction with the application development teams 
• Design, develop, and implement Oracle database instances for the development and production environments 

• Provide IT administrator support for host servers and maintenance of the new database servers, and Physical Data Models 
• Test, validate and implement performance and resource optimization improvements 
• Maintain development and production database environments 
• Monitor and maintain database security and database software 
• Database & Application (SQL & PL/SQL) performance tuning 

• Deep knowledge of Oracle and Postgres internals 
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities 
• Backup and recovery (RMAN and traditional) 
• Root cause analysis of production-related database issues 
• On-call for production databases - daily maintenance, monitoring, problem resolution and internal customer and dev support 

• Rapidly troubleshoot complex technical problems under pressure. 
• Experience managing servers in large-scale, geographically diverse environments 

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years relevant work experience 
• Minimum of 2 years Database Administration experience with administering and supporting multiple Oracle databases for performance critical, highly available systems on UNIX/Linux platform 

• Minimum of 2 years' data modeling experience with conducting performance tuning, backup/recovery, and scalability/capacity planning, in addition to SQL, PL/SQL, and UNIX shell scripting 
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities 
• Experience with backup/restore functionality using RMAN 
• Experience managing servers in large-scale, geographically diverse environments 
• Excellent SQL and DB performance tuning skills 

• Experience implementing and supporting Oracle. (beneficial) 
• Minimum of 5 years troubleshooting and problem-solving experience 
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills 

 

Preferred: 

• Experience in creating automation tools for managing relational databases (auditing, account management, backup/restore, discovery, schema deployment) 

• Detailed understanding & experience of Linux operating systems and kernels 
• Experience in consultancy role 
• Track record of engineering performance and availability solutions 
• Working knowledge of at least one compiled language (e.g., Java, C++, C#) and at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, Ruby, Perl) 
• Experience with other Data Persistence platforms: RDBMS (Oracle, MySQL, Postgres**), NoSQL, Hadoop, Data and Software Migration off/to RDBMS, AWS DBs (RDS, DynamoDB, EMR, Redshift, Aurora, etc.), Data Information Lifecycle Management, Data Security and Big Data 

 

Education: 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Management, Mathematics, or a related field 
• Additional 8 years' relevant experience may be substituted for Bachelor's degree 

 

Clearance: 

• Ability to obtain Moderate Background Investigation (MBI) clearance 

 

Location:

• Remote

Salary Information: 

• The pay for this position ranges from $77,750 to $95,000.
• The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
• Also, certain positions are eligible for additional forms of compensation, such as bonuses.
• TISTA associates are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits plan! More information can be found here: https://tistatech.com/working-at-tista/

 

 

Employment Type: OTHER