Database Administrator

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $87.1k - $157.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

📀 Database Administrator

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Leidos

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1969

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Leidos is a leading systems integrator in science, technology, and engineering, providing solutions that transform and enable the missions of its customers. The company operates across various markets, including aviation, defense, energy, government, healthcare, intelligence, science, and space. Leidos is involved in AI, digital modernization, cyber operations, and integrated and mission software systems. With a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability, Leidos also engages in charitable efforts and community enrichment programs. Additionally, it contributes to developing solutions for counter-unmanned aerial systems and electric vehicle infrastructure for military applications.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and manage enterprise database administration programs supporting business applications, data services, and organizational requirements. • Administer and maintain database environments, including AWS RDS, Amazon DocumentDB, MongoDB, and other database platforms, ensuring reliability, availability, and operational readiness. • Monitor database health, performance, availability, and storage utilization; analyze trends and implement optimization strategies, including query tuning, resource optimization, and capacity management. • Develop, maintain, and validate database backup, recovery, and snapshot processes, including scheduled backups (15-minute, daily, monthly, and long-term), retention policies, restoration testing, and recovery procedures aligned with SLA requirements. • Implement and support database replication, high-availability, and disaster recovery solutions, including failover configurations, replication strategies, and recovery testing to meet recovery point objectives. • Evaluate database criticality and architecture requirements to determine appropriate replication strategies, including multi-region versus single-region deployments based on availability needs, latency, consistency models, and cost considerations. • Manage database snapshots, storage optimization, and lifecycle processes to ensure efficient resource utilization and prevent failures related to storage exhaustion or backup interruptions. • Collaborate with Architecture, DevSecOps, and engineering teams on database configuration management, change control, security practices, and infrastructure improvements. • Perform database platform maintenance activities, including version management, software upgrade planning, and monthly compliance reporting to identify and remediate unsupported or out-of-compliance database versions.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field • Minimum of 5 years of experience administering production databases in AWS environments (e.g., RDS, DocumentDB, ElastiCache); candidates without a degree must have at least 9 years of relevant experience • Experience reviewing database performance trends and identifying opportunities for improvement. • Experience supporting: AWS RDS, DocumentDB, MongoDB, Database replication, Backup and recovery operations, Storage optimization, Snapshot management, High-availability database environments • Experience designing and maintaining backup/snapshot schedules and retention policies for production databases • Experience supporting disaster recovery procedures with defined Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) targets. • Experience monitoring database capacity and performance to prevent failures from storage exhaustion or backup interruptions. • Experience supporting highly available production database environments with strict uptime/incident-free availability targets. • The ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance. • The ability to travel, as needed, to customer sites. • Must have US Citizenship.

🏖️ Benefits

• competitive compensation • Health and Wellness programs • Income Protection • Paid Leave • Retirement