Senior Database Administrator

Affinity Recruiting - Huntsville, AL

Full-time - Senior

Huntsville, AL

About the position

The Senior Database Administrator will support a Government contract by managing and optimizing database systems. This role involves a variety of tasks including performance assessment, security implementation, and collaboration with technical teams to ensure efficient database operations.

Responsibilities

• Assess and improve database performance
• Implement security measures
• Manage database access per documented procedures
• Develop and implement database policies, procedures, and guidelines
• Install and configure new databases
• Set database parameters or specifications
• Read documents to gather technical information
• Provide input for detailed project plan development
• Collaborate with application development and platform/infrastructure teams
• Modify, add, remove, relocate, or copy database components
• Work directly with users and technical teams to troubleshoot, resolve, or escalate database issues

Requirements

• Master's degree with 10 years of experience or Bachelor's degree with 12 years of experience
• Security Clearance Required
• Oracle database administration (12c or later preferred)
• Oracle datapump
• PL/SQL, SQL
• Redhat Linux (version 7 preferred)
• Windows Server (2012 or later preferred)
• Microsoft Office (2013 or later preferred)
• Dell (Quest) Toad for Oracle or similar database client tool
• Use of BMC Remedy Incident Management (or similar ticket tracking system)
• Use of Atlassian JIRA (or similar workflow tracking system)

Nice-to-haves

• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• MongoDB
• AWS cloud familiarity
• WebLogic familiarity
• Denodo familiarity