Database Administrator

$78,000 - $166,000/Yr

Maxar Technologies - Westminster, CO

Full-time - Senior

Westminster, CO

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

Maxar Technologies is seeking a Senior Staff Database Administrator to join their Database Services team in Westminster, Colorado. This role focuses on providing managed and consulting services related to database administration and management, supporting a sophisticated commercial earth-imaging satellite constellation. The position involves working with various database systems, ensuring high availability, security, and compliance, while also participating in an on-call rotation for 24x7 production operations.

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate and administer PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL databases.
• Demonstrate experience with Data Center migration to multiple cloud providers.
• Establish and maintain security integrity controls.
• Translate logical to physical design and develop comprehensive database architectures.
• Create and manage large scale, highly available production database environments.
• Handle data loading, security, capacity planning, and backup and recovery.
• Support production databases in a high-quality and dynamic environment.
• Solve SQL performance-related issues and optimize poorly performing queries and stored procedures.
• Manage 24x7 production operations including incident break/fix, change, and service requests.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen with an active secret level security clearance or able to obtain within expected timeframes.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or relevant field or 4 years of relevant experience.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience with database administration in a production environment.
• 3 years of development experience with data management systems.
• 2 years of experience with AWS, Azure, Google, or relevant cloud providers.
• Experience working in a DevOps model and has agile project management experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Migration of large databases from one platform to another.
• GIS spatial models experience from a database perspective.
• CI/CD pipeline experience in Jenkins.
• Experience with Terraform and SCIaC.
• Familiarity with Docker/Helm/Kubernetes/Rancher.
• Knowledge of Vault and Artifactory.
• Experience with GitHub/GitLab.
• Proficiency in Python/SQLAlchemy/Flask.
• Familiarity with AWS services like SNS/SQS/Lambda/EC2/CloudWatch/DynamoDB/IAM/S3.
• Experience with Elasticsearch/Beats/Elastic Agent/Fleet/Kibana/Grafana.
• Knowledge of PgAdmin4 and JSON, YAML, TOML, DM, and HTML.

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Health and welfare insurance
• 401(k)