Database Administrator

SAIC - Quantico, VA

Full-time - Entry Level

Quantico, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Database Administrator at SAIC will play a crucial role in supporting the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) by managing and optimizing database systems as part of a transformational infrastructure program. This position involves ensuring compliance with security policies, implementing emerging database technologies, and providing lifecycle management services for various databases within the DCSA networks. The role is integral to enhancing the enterprise IT capabilities that support national security initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Supports lifecycle database management services for all system, production application, pre-production, and backup databases.
• Translates improvement requirements and requests into detailed functional and technical specifications and project plans.
• Recommends and implements emerging database technologies.
• Ensures all database instances have required security controls applied in accordance with DCSA policies.
• Selects, maintains, and operates database management tools.
• Provisions, modifies, and manages data schema, cloning and backup, troubleshooting, account management, enhancement, optimization, and decommissioning.
• Performs schema changes and conversions of the production database during application upgrades and new version releases.
• Reviews, tests, and recommends database software upgrades, ensuring compliance with vendor license agreements.
• Supports efforts to optimize and maintain databases, clusters, and replications for pre-production, production, and backup.
• Monitors, collects, analyzes, and reports database metrics, such as growth and usage of capabilities.
• Performs daily database operations checks and status reports.
• Coordinates with third-party vendors on database issues and resolution.
• Develops database dictionaries.
• Creates and executes backup and recovery capabilities, as well as disaster recovery/business continuity plans.

Requirements

• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience.
• Nine (9) or more years of relevant experience; four (4) additional years may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Top Secret clearance (SCI eligible).
• IAT-II certification in one of the following areas: CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, and/or SSCP.
• Applicable Database Compute Environment Certification.

Nice-to-haves

• Five (5) or more years of experience as DBA in Oracle 12c/18c/19c/21c/23c.
• Experience with Transparent Data Encryption, Data Guard, RAC, and RMAN.
• Red Hat Linux experience.
• Unix/Linux Shell scripting experience.
• Familiarity with the project management process.

Benefits

• Ongoing application acceptance with no deadline for submissions.