Database Administrator

Decisionpoint - Boise, ID

Full-time

Boise, ID

Ambulatory Health Care Services

About the position

DecisionPoint Corporation is seeking an experienced Database Administrator to support the United States Department of the Interior - Bureau of Reclamation. This role involves maintaining and enhancing database systems, ensuring high availability, and complying with security requirements in both production and non-production environments.

Responsibilities

• Ensure Database Administrator (DBA) accounts are not used for non-DBA activities.
• Review vulnerabilities, develop implementation plans, and install patches as they become available.
• Provide support to maintain, implement, and enhance servers, databases, and applications, including tuning and performing backups.
• Maintain and sustain databases to 98.5% availability.
• Ensure server and database performance, connectivity, and compliance with security and certification requirements.
• Perform database and application backup and recovery, monitoring, and performance tracking.
• Complete custom structured query language (SQL), UNIX, Linux, or other scripting and programming as required.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree and 5 years relevant work experience in maintaining database systems.
• Strong database maintaining skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently or in a team environment.
• Comfortable working in an environment that includes Drupal, PHP, and MySQL.