Database Administrator (DBA)

NuAxis Innovations•Washington, DC

About The Position

We are a federal IT company on a mission to make customer experience (CX) the center of every government solution. Technology is our Passion. People are our Purpose. We know tech, but we love people. NuAxis is home to thinkers and feelers; engineers and artists. We work hard and support each other along the way. Teamwork is more than just a buzzword for us, it’s a state of mind. We believe happy employees do amazing work, so join our team NOW! We are currently seeking a talented and motivated Database Administrator (DBA) for a Full-Time position. Owns database availability, performance, security, and migration readiness across a legacy IBM DB2 estate and modern cloud-managed relational databases. Keeps mission-critical data services healthy while enabling the platform's move to cloud-native data architecture.

Requirements

7+ years as a DBA supporting production enterprise systems.
Hands-on IBM DB2 administration (v10.x or later) strongly preferred; equivalent Oracle/SQL Server depth with DB2 cross-training will be considered.
Cloud-managed database experience — AWS Aurora/RDS (PostgreSQL or MySQL) preferred.
Advanced SQL, stored procedure development, and performance tuning.
Backup/recovery, HA/DR design, and replication experience.
Database security hardening and compliance experience in a regulated environment.
Automation scripting (Python, Shell) and infrastructure-as-code familiarity.
Experience supporting database changes through CI/CD with version-controlled schema migrations.
Experience supporting DB2 and MySQL/PostgreSQL in hybrid legacy-to-cloud modernization environments.
Working knowledge of database security controls, audit logging, encryption, least privilege, records retention, and regulated PII handling.

Nice To Haves

Legacy-to-cloud database migration experience (DMS, SCT, or equivalent).
Federal environment experience with STIGs and formal configuration management.
Kubernetes-hosted application data patterns and connection pooling at scale.

Responsibilities

Administer, monitor, and tune production and non-production databases; proactive alerting, capacity planning, and preventive maintenance.
Support database migration from legacy on-premises platforms to cloud-managed services, including schema conversion, data movement, and cutover planning.
Design and review schemas, indexes, partitioning, and stored procedures; conduct query optimization and root cause analysis on performance incidents.
Maintain database security controls: access control, encryption at rest and in transit, auditing, and privileged access management.
Maintain baseline configurations, configuration management records, and system component inventories on a defined cadence.
Manage backup, recovery, replication, and high-availability configurations; test and document recovery procedures.
Remediate database-layer vulnerability and STIG findings; keep platform versions within supported release windows.
Support developers and analysts with data access patterns, test data provisioning, and migration validation.
Support DB2-to-cloud/MySQL migration planning for Drupal/PACE modernization, including schema conversion, reconciliation, performance baselines, cutover, rollback, and post-migration validation.
Maintain database configuration and component inventories in accordance with DOL configuration-management requirements at the required cadence.
Support monitoring, alerting, RCA, vulnerability remediation, supported-version currency, and release/change evidence for database changes.