Senior Database Administrator
First seen by Alion on Sep 18, 2026.
Role Overview :
As a Database Administrator with strong DevOps skills, you will complement our Engineering team's capability to foster our "you build it, you run it" culture.
Key Responsibilities :
- Design and implement data processing in a big data environment.
- Database design and management in a cloud environment.
- Build and sustain the pipeline of data ingress, processing, and data distribution.
- Identify the most efficient technology approach to implement business logic.
- As a liaison into the larger DevOps organization, ensure alignment with the strategic technology approach and DevOps concepts.
- Maintain working relationships with technical counterparts at vendors and external partners.
- Implement monitoring and alerting to support the team in reaching customer-related SLAs.
- Manage engineering and production costs in our cloud environment.
- Identify and track SLAs for regular review.
- Collaborate with our Support team to build the tool set that feeds into productive customer communications.
- Identify areas where to apply managed services over self-hosted solutions.
Tech Stack :
- Databases : RDS, PostgreSQL, MSSQL Server management
- Scripting : PERL, Python, Bash
- IaC : CloudFormation, Terraform, Helm
- Containers : Docker, Kubernetes
- GitOPS / CI : ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, Git Actions
- Cloud : AWS
- OS & Tooling : Linux, Jira, GitHub
Skills
Database Design, DBA, DB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Python, Bash Scripting, IAC Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS