General Dynamics - Washington, DC
posted 3 months ago
We are GDIT, a global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology, and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense, and intelligence community. We are currently seeking a Senior Datacomm Systems Administrator to join our team. This position is critical as you will serve as the primary database administrator for the Datacomm subsystems for the BFS mainframe. Your role will involve providing tuning and performance recommendations, configuring, maintaining, and supporting Datacomm applications. You will also provide technical assistance and production support to development teams for related issues and concerns. In this role, you will be responsible for providing Datacomm reporting and system information for auditing purposes, supporting Datacomm audit tools, including Solutionary and XBridge. Monitoring Datacomm performance and recommending tuning to improve performance will be a key part of your responsibilities. Additionally, you will be responsible for third-party development tools from Compuware, installing and configuring Datacomm and related tools such as Insight and Catalog Manager. Your duties will also include ensuring recoverability by setting up proper backup utilities and procedures, production monitoring, performance analysis, and performance tuning, which includes improving indexing, rewriting SQL, and restructuring Datacomm objects. You will conduct database design reviews, implement database changes, and perform database recovery when necessitated by hardware or software failure. Providing guidance and support to application developers, participating in security audits, and monitoring application unit testing and system/load testing in development will also be part of your role.