Senior Database Administrator

Location: Alexandria, Chantilly, or St. Louis
Clearance: TS/SCI clearance
Level: Senior

Job Description:
Bailey Information Technology Consultants is recruiting for an experienced database administrator to provide operations sustainment and engineering support under the Foundation Sustainment Services contract.

Responsibilities:
Primary responsibilities include monitoring the database system and perform routine health checks; deploy security patches and bug fixes to test and operational environments; update databases with new data; update operational and security documentation, including troubleshooting guides and SOPs.

Core Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 4-8 years of prior relevant experience or Master’s with 2-6 years of prior relevant experience.
• Minimum 4-10 years of information technology experience, minimum of 4-6 years of practical Database Administration experience.
• Design, implement, and maintain a multiple security enclave data environment, in the AWS cloud.
• Managing database cloud environment with minimal downtime while ensuring data integrity.
• Deploying and managing databases on cloud platforms like Amazon RDS or Aurora.
• Developing and optimizing SQL queries, stored procedures, and scripts.
• Designing and implementing scalable database structures.
• Creating and maintaining data models to ensure database integrity and performance.
• Optimizing database performance through index creation and query tuning.
• Aligning database operations with CI/CD pipelines through collaboration with software maintenance teams.
• Proficiency in database management systems such as Oracle or PostgreSQL.
• Planning and executing database upgrades, migrations, and patches for new features and security.
• Analyzing and forecasting database capacity for scalability and optimal performance.
• Leveraging cloud backup solutions for data resilience and easy restoration in failures.
• Using infrastructure as code tools (e.g., AWS CloudFormation) for consistent and automated database management.
• Creating and maintaining documentation for database design, configurations, and processes.
• Effective communication skills for collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Must have DoD 8570 compliance certifications (i.e., CompTIA Security+, CompTIA Cloud+, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Implementing and optimizing data warehousing solutions on cloud platforms, like Amazon Redshift.
• Integrating databases with containerization platforms (e.g., Docker) and orchestrating with tools like Kubernetes for efficient resource utilization.

Prior experience with NGA and NGA’s support to mission partners.