Database Administrator (DBA) SQL Server / Oracle

Vytwo•Prosper, TX

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

This role exists to ensure the availability, security, integrity, performance, and recoverability of enterprise database platforms that support mission critical broadcasting, digital, and business systems across the agency. The Database Administrator provides expert technical oversight for database operations, security compliance, performance tuning, backup and recovery, and modernization initiatives across on premises, hybrid, and cloud based environments. The Agency operates a diverse portfolio of enterprise databases supporting broadcast operations, digital publishing platforms, financial systems, identity services, and mission critical applications. As the agency modernizes infrastructure and adopts hybrid and cloud architectures, database environments must be secure, resilient, scalable, and cost efficient. The Database Administrator plays a central role in ensuring database platforms remain stable, secure, and performance optimized while supporting modernization, cloud integration, and data growth across the agency. This position supports database security and access control, high availability and disaster recovery, performance monitoring and tuning, data protection, backup, and recovery, capacity planning and lifecycle management, and modernization and cloud enablement initiatives.

Requirements

7–10 years of enterprise database administration experience
Experience with Microsoft SQL Server
Experience with Oracle Database
Experience with database security and access control
Experience with high availability and disaster recovery
Experience with performance monitoring and tuning
Experience with data protection, backup, and recovery
Experience with capacity planning and lifecycle management
Experience with modernization and cloud enablement initiatives
Experience with federal IT security requirements and database security controls
Experience with OMB, NIST, and FISMA aligned standards
Experience with agency governance, change management, and configuration control procedures
Experience with database installations, migrations, upgrades, patching, and configuration
Experience with implementing and enforcing database security controls, including access management, encryption, auditing, and vulnerability mitigation.
Experience supporting security assessments, POA&Ms, risk mitigation activities, and compliance validation efforts.
Experience designing, implementing, and managing database backup and recovery strategies.
Experience performing and validating restoration testing and disaster recovery exercises.
Experience supporting high availability architectures, including clustering, replication, and failover solutions.
Experience conducting proactive capacity planning for database growth, storage utilization, and performance scaling.
Experience monitoring database health, availability, and usage trends using enterprise monitoring tools.
Experience producing recurring reports on database performance and availability, storage utilization and growth trends, backup and recovery status, and incident metrics and operational risks.
Experience maintaining accurate technical documentation, diagrams, and configuration baselines.

Nice To Haves

Microsoft Certified: SQL Server / Azure Database certifications
Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
CompTIA Security+
ITIL Foundations
Administration of enterprise SQL Server and/or Oracle database environments
Implementation of backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions
Performance tuning, monitoring, and troubleshooting
Database security hardening and compliance support
Support of hybrid and cloud integrated database environments
Collaboration with application, infrastructure, and cybersecurity teams

Responsibilities

Administer, monitor, and maintain enterprise database platforms including Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle Database (and other agency approved platforms as applicable).
Perform database installations, migrations, upgrades, patching, and configuration in accordance with security and change management requirements.
Ensure database availability, reliability, and performance for production, development, and test environments.
Implement and enforce database security controls, including access management, encryption, auditing, and vulnerability mitigation.
Support security assessments, POA&Ms, risk mitigation activities, and compliance validation efforts.
Ensure databases meet federal security standards and agency governance requirements.
Monitor database performance and proactively tune queries, indexes, memory, and storage configurations.
Identify and remediate performance bottlenecks and capacity constraints.
Support incident response, root cause analysis, and corrective action development.
Design, implement, and manage database backup and recovery strategies.
Perform and validate restoration testing and disaster recovery exercises.
Support high availability architectures, including clustering, replication, and failover solutions.
Conduct proactive capacity planning for database growth, storage utilization, and performance scaling.
Monitor database health, availability, and usage trends using enterprise monitoring tools.
Provide early warning alerts and recommendations to prevent service degradation.
Produce recurring reports on database performance and availability, storage utilization and growth trends, backup and recovery status, and incident metrics and operational risks.
Maintain accurate technical documentation, diagrams, and configuration baselines.
Report to the Enterprise Platforms and Storage Director and collaborate closely with application teams, cloud engineering, cybersecurity, enterprise infrastructure, and networking teams.
Ensure compliance with Federal IT security requirements and database security controls, OMB, NIST, and FISMA aligned standards, and Agency governance, change management, and configuration control procedures.
Produce recurring operational and performance reports to support OCIO oversight, budget reviews, audits, and compliance assessments.
Maintain detailed documentation to support audit readiness, incident investigations, continuity of operations, and technical modernization planning.