Senior Database Administrator

$122,200 - $220,900/Yr

Leidos - Washington, DC

Full-time - Senior

Washington, DC

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior Database Administrator at Leidos will play a crucial role in supporting a Federal Agency in Washington, DC. This position involves working in a dynamic environment where the DBA will enhance user experiences and support the development, testing, and production environments. The role emphasizes critical thinking, problem-solving, and effective communication, contributing to a talented technical team focused on litigation support and eDiscovery.

Responsibilities

• Function as part of a team to create an enhanced user experience for a government agency and its customers.
• Engage in all aspects of supporting development, test, and production environments.
• Support the Enterprise Vault team in the customer's eDiscovery mission.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree and 12+ years of Systems Engineer/Administrator experience.
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in architecture and design of complex high-available systems.
• Strong IT architecture analysis capability.
• Minimum of 3 or more years' experience with Microsoft SQL Server, Data Lakes, Clusters.
• Active Top Secret Clearance with SSBI and ability to obtain SCI clearance.
• System administration knowledge of IT networks.
• System administration knowledge of enterprise mail servers.
• System administration knowledge of Microsoft Windows and/or Linux.
• Knowledge of virtualization concepts and virtualized environments.
• Experience using Microsoft Office software suite.
• Understanding of file systems and hard disk drive structures.
• Demonstrated ability utilizing good communication skills.
• Experience planning and implementing assigned tasks.
• Demonstrated experience in Microsoft SQL Server 2019 and 2022, including setting up security, creating tables, indexes, stored procedures, designing SQL reports, and creating maintenance jobs.
• Familiarity with best practices for optimizing databases.
• Demonstrated experience with creating and maintaining databases in a Clustered Server environment.
• Knowledge of design, development, and maintenance of various data models and their components.
• Demonstrated experience and working knowledge of data lakes, data warehouse, and data mart architectures.
• Familiarity with metadata and data modeling, data flow, entity relationship diagram, schema architectures, and query languages.
• Demonstrated experience with mirroring database servers, log shipping, and techniques for database redundancy and high availability.
• Familiarity with full backup and recovery capabilities of Microsoft SQL Server 2019 and 2022.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with upgrading SQL Servers from lower versions to the latest version (version 2019 and up).
• Familiarity with creating reports using Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).
• Demonstrated experience in setting up a Reporting server.

Nice-to-haves

• Programming experience using a scripting language.
• Prior experience working in a Federal Government environment.