Database Administrator
First seen by Alion on Nov 2, 2026.
SUMMARY:
You will be responsible for the performance, integrity and security of the client’s databases. You will plan and develop databases, support users, and troubleshoot issues across a large data environment. National travel and after-hours work are required.
Key responsibilities
- Back up all database servers to meet Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), and test restores to confirm Recovery Time Objectives (RTO)
- Troubleshoot database service outages, including after hours and weekends
- Configure monitoring tools to minimise false alarms
- Choose high-availability and DR approaches (clustering, log shipping, mirroring, SAN replication, failover) for new systems
- Install and configure new database servers
- Deploy database change scripts from third-party vendors
- Diagnose performance issues and recommend the best fix: hardware, server configuration, or index/query changes
- Tune platform queries
- Troubleshoot server hardware using tools such as Dell OpenManage, HP SIM and IBM Director
- Manage database server components, including integration, analysis and reporting services
- Perform root cause analysis on production database incidents
- Handle daily maintenance, monitoring, problem resolution and developer/internal customer support
- Review, design and develop data models with application development teams
- Document the database environment
- Travel nationally and work after hours as required
POSITION INFO:
Minimum requirements Diploma or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical\/Electronics Engineering, Business Management or a related field Certification in at least one enterprise database product (e.g. IBM Db2, Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, CouchDB, Ingres) 6+ years' experience developing data management systems, tools and architectures on Db2, Oracle and\/or similar platforms Minimum 5 years' database administration and API\/web-app interface experience on IBM and\/or Oracle Proven proficiency in Db2, Oracle and Linux, plus a programming language such as R, Python, Ruby or Java Experience designing and operating very large data warehouses and web-facing OLTP databases Advantageous Familiarity with big data technologies: Hadoop\/EMR, Redshift, DynamoDB, MongoDB, CouchDB, Redis, HBase, Cassandra