Database Administrator II

Reflexive Concepts is seeking a skilled Database Administrator to join our team!As part of our dynamic team, you'll play a crucial role in supporting and maintaining the infrastructure behind mission-critical enterprise applications. Your day-to-day will involve more than just routine tasks -- each day brings new challenges and opportunities to innovate and problem-solve.

Responsibilities:

Daily Operations & Troubleshooting:

Play a key role in keeping critical IT systems running smoothly. From monitoring performance to resolving issues with databases and clients, your role will keep the digital heartbeat of our enterprise applications strong.

Multi-Level Problem Solving:

Whether it's a Tier 1 (Help Desk) issue or a more complex Tier 2 (Escalation) problem, you'll identify, diagnose, and fix issues to ensure minimal downtime and maximum efficiency. Communicate progress and solutions to agency management and internal customers.

Infrastructure Management:

Manage multiple backend database systems as part of the IT system infrastructure, ensuring that processes are optimized, and systems are secure. This includes products such as Oracle, MSSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, PostGres and others.

System Enhancements:

Work with our customers to design and implement custom database queries and locate areas for efficiencies in performance and stability of enterprise application databases both COTS and GOTS.

Critical Escalation Support:

Coordinate and resolve issues as they arise, ensuring that any disruptions are minimized and that the systems continue to support our critical enterprise applications effectively.

Key Technologies

Oracle

SQL

PostGres

MongoDB

Desired Skills:

Experience with various databases such as Oracle, SQL, PostGres and MongoDB

Linux

Windows

Qualifications:

A bachelor's degree in a technical discipline and ten (10) years of experience as a DBA.

Fourteen (14) years of experience as a DBA may be substituted in lieu of a degree.

DoD 8570 compliance with Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level I is required as specified in the individual TTOs

Maintain the integrity, security, and availability of database(s)

Administer, maintain, and Implement policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of the database(s)

Establish and maintain database user accounts

Organize and format data for efficient query and storage processes

Evaluate requirements and recommends available DBMS products

Provide server administration with a variety of database products that include Oracle, SQL Server, and SYBASE

Perform disaster recovery, performance analysis and tuning, index maintenance, and monitoring of data

Develop policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of the database(s)

Perform database and software life-cycle activities to ensure highest level of system performance and availability

Support data modeling activities by way of prototype database implementations

Coordinate database architecture changes with Database Engineers (DBEs)

Direct the monitoring, administrating, and implementing performance on database systems as well as database performance optimization, developing/changing database indices, redesigning database structure and reloading data into a database

Direct the installation of database management systems, databases, tables and views

Directs the administration and use of current and emerging database tools, strategies and technologies

Must be able to work during core hours of M-F 10am-2pm. Exceptions will be considered on a case-by-case basis.