Senior Database Administrator

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $104k - $166k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📀 Database Administrator

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Peraton

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10,000+ employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Peraton is a mission-focused enterprise that supports national security initiatives through advanced IT and cyber services. They provide capabilities in areas such as cyber defense, cloud operations, engineering, and intelligence. With a commitment to solving complex challenges, Peraton integrates data-driven technologies to ensure mission success for their military and government clients.

📋 Description

• Operate production databases on AWS, including RDS and Aurora for PostgreSQL and MySQL, plus self-managed MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server on VMs as needed • Administer DynamoDB, ElastiCache (Redis), and OpenSearch supporting application workloads and caching • Own database architecture, performance tuning, capacity planning, and right-sizing • Manage backup, restore, snapshot, and point-in-time recovery strategies • Validate RTO/RPO through scheduled restore and failover testing • Design, test, and maintain high-availability and disaster recovery solutions, including Multi-AZ, cross-region replication, and documented failover procedures • Define and maintain SLIs/SLOs for database availability, latency, replication lag, and query performance • Monitor and tune database performance using Dynatrace, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry • Lead production incident response, troubleshooting, service restoration, root-cause analysis, and post-incident corrective actions • Manage database upgrades, patching, configuration changes, maintenance, and technology refreshes • Improve database resilience through capacity planning, performance testing, failure-mode analysis, disaster recovery, and recovery testing • Identify and address reliability risks and technical debt using reliability metrics, incident trends, capacity data, and service health indicators • Automate database operations using an everything-as-code approach • Partner with Platform Engineering and application teams to define operational requirements, improve reusable infrastructure, and strengthen database reliability and operability

🎯 Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen • Ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust level clearance • Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of experience, a Master’s degree with 6 years of experience, or a High School Diploma or equivalent and 12 years of experience • 5+ years of database administration, data platform engineering, or SRE experience with significant production database ownership • Hands-on production experience operating database services on AWS at scale • DoD 8570/8140 compliant certification • Demonstrated experience with backup, recovery, and disaster recovery execution, including validated restore testing • Demonstrated experience defining and implementing SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for data services • Proven incident management experience, including on-call ownership and root-cause analysis • Excellent problem-solving skills and strong communication, with the ability to present performance and reliability insights to technical and non-technical audiences • AWS data services and core services knowledge, including RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, KMS, Secrets Manager, and CloudWatch • Relational database administration with PostgreSQL and MySQL; Oracle or SQL Server experience valued • Advanced SQL, query optimization, execution plan analysis, and index and schema design • High availability, replication, backup and recovery, and disaster recovery design and testing • Dynatrace, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry • Terraform and Ansible / Ansible Tower • GitLab, Jenkins, and Liquibase or Flyway • Sonatype Nexus and Aqua Security • Python, Bash, or Go • RHEL Linux administration • Windows Server

🏖️ Benefits

• Overtime eligibility may apply • Shift differential may apply • Discretionary bonus may be available