Database Administrator

Navstar - Annapolis Junction, MD

Full-time - Mid Level

Annapolis Junction, MD

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Database Administrator at Navstar, Inc. is responsible for maintaining the integrity, security, and availability of multiple databases. This role involves disaster recovery, performance analysis and tuning, index maintenance, and monitoring of data. The administrator will also develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure database security and integrity, evaluate database management systems, and organize data for efficient querying and storage.

Responsibilities

• Perform daily database administration, monitoring, and troubleshooting of system database and replication issues.
• Monitor database performance and memory allocations using standard tools.
• Perform system updates and Information Assurance Vulnerability Alert (IAVA) patching.
• Troubleshoot and resolve database problems.
• Perform database recovery actions.
• Modify existing database scripts to enhance systems support and create new database scripts for recurring database issues.
• Develop and execute SQL queries for routine and ad hoc requests.
• Transition/ingest legacy data.
• Translate requirements and data into usable database schemas by creating or recreating ad hoc queries, scripts and macros, making updates to existing queries, and creating new queries to manipulate data into a master file.
• Recommend design and implementation practices that optimize the performance of GOTS/COTS databases and applications.
• Assist in the development of database structures that fit into the overall architecture of the system under development.
• Assist in developing databases, database parser software, and database loading software.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI with polygraph clearance.
• At least three (3) years of demonstrated experience as a database administrator.
• At least three (3) years of Oracle Database Administration experience.
• Experience implementing and maintaining database security.
• Experience conducting database performance tuning and monitoring.
• Experience troubleshooting and resolving database problems/issues.
• Experience installing, configuring, and upgrading RDBMS software.
• Experience with procedural languages, for example: PL/SQL.

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline and 8 years of experience.
• Experience with real time highly available data replication technologies such as Oracle Data Guard, Oracle Streams, Oracle Golden Gate, Sybase Replication Server.
• Experience with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology and/or as a member of an Agile team.
• Experience with database design and development.
• Understanding of databases, primarily Oracle and/or other relational and non-relational/NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
• Experience using Oracle SQL/PLSQL, and SQL in general.
• Experience with Mongo and/or Cassandra.

Benefits

• Paid holidays
• Disability insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Paid time off
• 401(k) matching
• Professional development assistance
• Life insurance