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This role is best suited for someone who has spent real time supporting operational mission systems, understands the realities of secure infrastructure, and can operate independently as a senior technical resource.\nThe ideal candidate is not just a database administrator who performs routine maintenance. We are looking for a hands on DBA with strong experience supporting relational database management systems, Linux based environments, database security, automation, troubleshooting, replication, backup and recovery, performance tuning, and operational sustainment. This person will help support, modernize, and improve database services that directly impact mission operations.\nJob Description\nDPG is hiring a Senior Database Administrator to support mission critical systems in a classified environment. You will work directly with systems engineers, software engineers, security personnel, and mission stakeholders to administer, sustain, troubleshoot, and improve database environments that support operational mission platforms.\nThis role requires a strong understanding of database administration, backend system integration, Linux command line operations, security compliance, automation, backup and recovery, performance optimization, and database reliability. The selected candidate will support databases that are tightly integrated with applications, infrastructure, storage, networking, and mission services.\nWhat You Will Do\nAdminister, sustain, troubleshoot, and improve relational database management systems in a classified mission environment.\nSupport database design, configuration, maintenance, performance tuning, patching, backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery activities.\nWork with systems engineers, software engineers, DevOps teams, data teams, and security personnel to implement reliable backend database solutions.\nSupport database environments that interact with Linux systems, applications, storage, virtualization, network services, and mission platforms.\nIdentify and understand customer needs, then translate those needs into secure, reliable, and maintainable database solutions.\nApply a strong understanding of database principles, theories, and concepts to develop practical design and sustainment solutions.\nTroubleshoot database issues related to performance, availability, replication, disaster recovery, backups, restores, user access, audit logging, and application integration.\nSupport database security controls, auditing, compliance requirements, access management, encryption, patching, and system hardening.\nAutomate routine database administration tasks where practical to improve consistency, reduce manual effort, and strengthen operational reliability.\nSupport integration, testing, deployment, and sustainment activities across production and non production environments.\nProvide operational support for mission platforms, including planned maintenance, incident response, break fix support, and occasional after hours support.\nDocument database configurations, procedures, troubleshooting steps, operational processes, and system changes.\nCollaborate with technical teams and mission stakeholders to resolve issues quickly and communicate technical concepts clearly.\nQualifications You Must Have\n8 or more years of experience in database administration, database engineering, backend data support, or closely related technical work.\nExperience administering relational database management systems in secure, classified, or mission critical environments.\nExperience with relational database management systems such as Oracle, Oracle Exadata, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, or similar enterprise database platforms.\nExperience with Oracle Intelligent Advisor is strongly preferred where applicable to the customer environment.\nExperience working with systems engineers and software engineers to implement, modify, troubleshoot, and sustain backend databases.\nExperience using the Linux command line to perform database administration, troubleshooting, scripting, and operational support activities.\nExperience troubleshooting database issues related to disaster recovery, replication, backups, restores, performance, availability, and application connectivity.\nExperience troubleshooting database performance issues, including query performance, indexing, capacity, and resource utilization.\nExperience supporting database security controls, audit requirements, compliance requirements, user access, logging, encryption, and system hardening.\nExperience automating routine database administration tasks using scripting, job scheduling, or automation tools.\nStrong understanding of database principles, relational database design, SQL, indexing, query performance, data integrity, and operational sustainment.\nStrong analytical, research, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills.\nAbility to communicate technical concepts clearly with engineers, security personnel, leadership, and mission stakeholders.\nAbility to work independently, prioritize issues, and resolve problems in high visibility environments.\nAbility to support occasional after hours maintenance or operational support when required.\nMust be a U.S. Citizen.\nMust have an active TS/SCI clearance with FS Polygraph.\nMust have an active DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification, such as CompTIA Security+.\nQualifications We Prefer\nExperience virtualizing or containerizing databases.\nExisting Security+ certification.\nExperience with AWS.\nExperience with NoSQL database products such as MongoDB and DynamoDB.\nExperience with spatial databases.\nCoding experience with SQL, Python, or Java is helpful.\nDesired Skills\nExperience supporting Oracle Exadata in classified or enterprise environments.\nExperience with Oracle Intelligent Advisor.\nExperience with PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, or other database technologies.\nExperience with database backup and recovery tools, replication technologies, clustering, high availability, and disaster recovery planning.\nExperience with database monitoring, performance tuning, query optimization, indexing strategies, and capacity planning.\nExperience supporting databases that are tightly coupled to 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