Senior Datacomm DBA (Remote)

$140,250 - $189,750/Yr

General Dynamics - Washington, DC

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Washington, DC

10,001+ employees

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

The Senior Datacomm DBA is responsible for the administration, tuning, and performance optimization of Datacomm subsystems within a mainframe environment. This role involves providing technical support to development teams, ensuring database recoverability, and participating in security audits. The position requires extensive experience in Datacomm installation, configuration, and administration, along with a strong focus on performance tuning and problem resolution.

Responsibilities

• Primary database administrator for the Datacomm subsystems for the client's mainframe.
• Provides tuning and performance recommendations, configures, and maintains Datacomm applications.
• Provide technical assistance and production support to the development teams for related issues and concerns.
• Provides Datacomm reporting and system information for Datacomm auditing, support Datacomm audit tools, including Solutionary, and XBridge.
• Monitor Datacomm performance and recommend tuning to improve performance.
• Responsible for third party development tools from Compuware.
• Install and configure Datacomm and related tools such as Insight and Catalog Manager.
• Production support and problem resolution.
• Ensuring recoverability by setting up proper backup utilities and procedures.
• Production monitoring and performance analysis.
• Performance tuning including improving indexing, rewriting SQL, and restructuring Datacomm objects.
• Database design reviews and implementing database changes such as new tables, modifying existing tables, and creating DB2 objects as needed.
• Scheduling or running utilities to maintain optimal database organization for best performance.
• Performing database recovery when necessitated by hardware or software failure.
• Providing guidance and support and debugging expertise to application developers.
• Participating in security audits.
• Monitoring application unit testing and system/load testing in development.

Requirements

• 10+ years of related experience in database administration and Datacomm systems.
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• Datacomm installation and configuration experience.
• Datacomm administration experience.
• Datacomm tuning experience to include performance recommendations.
• Experience with Datacomm related tools such as Insight and Catalog Manager.
• Production support and problem resolution.

Benefits

• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Paid vacation and holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Paid military leave
• Paid bereavement leave
• Paid jury duty leave
• Short and long-term disability benefits
• Life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• Critical illness insurance
• Business travel and accident insurance
• Paid Family Leave program providing up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period
• Flex work weeks where possible