Senior Database Administrator

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📀 Database Administrator

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DecisionPoint Corporation

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2011

🎖️ Defense

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Defense • Consulting • Logistics

DecisionPoint Corporation is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business specializing in IT modernization and digital transformation for government agencies. They provide comprehensive services including cybersecurity, health IT, and intelligent automation solutions, aimed at improving operational efficiency and effectiveness while ensuring secure cloud migration. Their Centers of Excellence approach drives mission success by addressing the most pressing challenges faced by government entities through innovative technology and expert support.

📋 Description

• Perform daily monitoring and administration of Microsoft SQL Server environments • Monitor database availability, performance, capacity, storage utilization, job execution, and system alerts • Execute scheduled maintenance, integrity checks, indexing, statistics updates, and other approved database maintenance activities • Plan and implement approved database patches and updates, including pre-change checks, validation, and rollback preparation • Administer database accounts, roles, permissions, and service access • Review access configurations and support periodic access validation • Execute and monitor database backups, investigate failures, and maintain backup records • Perform database restores and recovery testing • Support outage restoration and database recovery with architecture, infrastructure, application, and operations teams • Troubleshoot database connectivity, job failures, blocking, resource contention, integrity issues, and performance degradation • Tune queries, indexes, configurations, and maintenance processes • Support database and warehouse operations, scheduled loads, data refreshes, and integration dependencies • Implement approved schema changes, database objects, and configuration updates • Coordinate changes with application, data engineering, analytics, and testing teams • Validate database health and dependent services after maintenance, patches, schema changes, or restoration • Support database security monitoring and remediation of assigned findings • Maintain operational logs, incident records, change documentation, configuration records, and maintenance procedures • Update backup, recovery, troubleshooting, and administration runbooks • Escalate complex architectural, availability, security, or performance issues • Support operational handoffs, knowledge transfer, and continuous improvement of database administration practices

🎯 Requirements

• Active Secret clearance or higher • Minimum of eight years of relevant professional experience • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, information systems, or a related field, or a permitted equivalent • Experience with Microsoft SQL Server administration • Experience performing database patching • Experience administering database access controls • Experience with database performance tuning • Experience performing database backup and recovery • Ability to perform daily database monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting • Ability to support warehouse operations, approved schema changes, and database documentation • CompTIA Security+ CE or another approved IAT Level II certification

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement • Opportunity to support mission applications, data analysis, AI-related data activities, and data warehouse operations • Collaboration with database architects, data engineers, application teams, infrastructure personnel, cybersecurity specialists, and Government stakeholders • Knowledge transfer and continuous improvement opportunities