Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GDIT is a global technology and professional services company delivering technology solutions and mission services to government, defense, and intelligence organizations. The Database Administrator will support mission-critical database environments by providing production support, performance monitoring, data administration, database development, analytics, cloud database management, and data migration services.
Responsibilities
- Provides production support for mission‑critical database environments, including shift‑based coverage and on‑call support to ensure high availability and timely issue resolution
- Monitors database performance, responds to incidents, troubleshoots production issues, and coordinates with development and operations teams to restore service quickly
- Performs root‑cause analysis for production defects and contributes to long‑term stability improvements
- Works within an Agile solution development environment with daily scrums, biweekly sprint planning and quarterly Program Increment planning
- Develops operating standards and best practices, including performance, security, scalability, and maintainability
- Ensures the proper definition, control, and coordination of data elements and standards, and the facilitation of efficient data relationships, systems integration, and physical structure
- Participates in the development and implementation of database management policies and standards for efficient quality control and data administration
- Collaborates with Product Owners and users to gather business requirements and define and maps them to technical requirements. Meets with agency leaders and stakeholders, collaborating with other consultants and program/agency personnel regarding the development of innovative data analysis techniques
- Demonstrates ability to document complex workflow designs to present to project team and stakeholders
- Demonstrates ability to work on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of multiple factors and frequently contributes to the development of new business strategy, ideas, and methods adhering to best practices within the Agile framework
- Collects, analyzes, and interprets large amounts of data to help guide business decisions. Experience with using advanced statistical analysis, data mining, and predictive modeling techniques
- Synthesizes disparate information and recognizes patterns and relationships across data; synthesizes large sets of data from multiple sources, develops data visualizations for the purpose of tracking key performance indicators and other critical metrics tied to program outcomes
- Hosts and conducts peer reviews of the code of other developers on the team. Performs data validation and ensures data accuracy and integrity
- Develops stored procedures, jobs, views, tables, and other database objects in SQL Server Management Studio
- Designs and develops dimensional data models including start and snowflake schemas, fact and dimension tables, and enterprise data marts to support analytics, reporting and business intelligence solutions
- Develops and deploys ETL packages using CI/CD pipeline. Exposure to core configuration management systems for version control
- Works with Atlassian Suite of software development management tools
- Indexes system and application logs in to the Splunk system monitoring application, then creates dashboards, alerts, and reports from those logs
Skills
- Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Computing, Data Migrations
- 7 + years of related experience
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- At least seven (7+) years of Server database maintenance and database analysis or similar role
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Programming, Computer Engineering or relevant computer-based major. Experience may be considered in lieu of degree
- Experience supporting production database systems, including shift-based coverage and on‑call responsibilities
- Proficient experience with AWS database technologies such as Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and other AWS-managed data services
- Experience with Snowflake and exposure to cloud platforms, Azure cloud platform
- Experienced with completing database environment installation, configuration, on-going administration support
- Demonstrated understanding of standard Data warehouse concepts
- Adept with data modeling, data mapping, data flow diagrams and data marts
- Previous experience architecting and implementing cloud-based database solutions on various platforms
- Experience with Data migration from legacy on-premises database to multi-cloud/hybrid cloud platforms
- Proven ability to spearhead and work independently, prioritize, and get things done
- Strong analytical, technical, problem-solving skills
- Excellent organization and time management skills and ability to identify priorities to accomplish a variety of tasks on schedule
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and ability to work with people at every level. Comfortable writing down ideas, implementation plans and status reports
- Database or cloud certification preferred such as AWS Certified Database – Specialty, AWS Solutions Architect Associate/Professional, or equivalent industry‑recognized cloud/database certification
- Experience creating and managing database reports, visualizations, and dashboards
- Knowledge of court operations and law enforcement business data
Benefits
- Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
- Dental plan options
- Vision plan
- 401(k) plan with the ability to contribute both pre-tax and post-tax dollars up to IRS annual limits and receive a company match
- Full flex work weeks where possible
- Vacation, sick, and personal time
- Paid holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Paid military leave
- Paid bereavement leave
- Paid jury duty leave
- 15 days of paid leave per calendar year for vacations, personal business, and illness for new employees
- 10 paid holidays per year
- Up to 160 hours of paid family leave in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees
- Short- and long-term disability benefits
- Life insurance
- Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Personal accident insurance
- Critical illness insurance
- Business travel and accident insurance
- Remote work
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