Journeyman Database Administrator (DBA)

Digital Consultants, LLC•Tampa, FL

About The Position

Leading with our people, Digital Consultants’ mission is to deliver the highest level of professional solutions while being a trusted partner and advisor to our customers. With a culture of practicality, opportunity, and creativity, we remain dedicated to being honest, trustworthy, respectful, and ethical in everything we do. We are a certified SBA 8(a) small, disadvantaged business that supports multiple IT customers within the Federal, civilian, and private sectors. Digital Consultants also offers our employees growth opportunities, competitive wages, and a full benefits package. Our founding principles, Fairness and Common Sense, make working here more than a job; it’s the Digital family. Location: MacDill AFB, Tampa, FL Digital Consultants seeks a Journeyman Database Administrator (DBA) who provides database administration, engineering, and support services to USSOCOM J8-S, ensuring the availability, integrity, and performance of databases supporting analytic models, tools, and decision-support systems. This role focuses on maintaining database environments, optimizing performance, and supporting software development and analytic efforts within a classified environment.

Requirements

Clearance: Top Secret Clearance desired but must possess a current DoD Secret clearance and be upgradable to Top Secret within 4 months and eligible for SCI access and ACCM read-on.
Certifications: Baseline and Privileged Use Certified Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level I; IAT Level II must be obtained within 6 months of start date
Education: HS Diploma. Associates Degree desired but not required.
Experience: 1-10 years of experience providing advanced Database and Application server administration support to a mission production environment and development. Experience may include but is not limited to:
Database and Application server troubleshooting, installation, upgrade, performance tuning, development support, scripting and producing documentation.
Experience as DBA in a Windows and/or Linux OS environment using RDBMS (required) and/or NOSQL/Non-relational databases
Familiarity or background in software development using mainstream programming or scripting languages
1 years of experience (can be concurrent with the 10 years above) in database development, maintenance/support, and query support for software developers; to include writing stored procedures and triggers
Integrating data sources, and application development in and/or migration to cloud environments
Physical Requirements: The candidate must be able to travel to other worksites as required and with or without reasonable accommodation, be able to sit, stand, use computers and monitors, and perform duties in an office environment for extended periods. The candidate must be able to lift up to 40 lbs. on occasion (e.g., moving a case of paper or similar task) that may occur occasionally.

Responsibilities

Perform duties as Baseline and Privileged Use Certified Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level II in accordance with DoD 8570.01-M, DOD Instruction 8140.01, USSOCOM Manual 380-3, and the SIE OPORD.
Facilitate the readiness and availability of all database repositories by providing administrative and engineering database support technical services.
Setup and create databases, maintain database services online, implement backup/recovery methodologies, add or remove users, and maintain security permissions.
Responsible for database software installation on servers, update software patches and release upgrades
Install and configure client database software on workstations.
Conduct testing and deep scan health reports on all database instances, preventative maintenance
Maintain database monitoring, identify, avoid, resolve database integrity or bottleneck issues.
Analyze, critique, rewrite performance Standard Query Language (SQL) procedures (SQL analysis and tuning). Assist software development team regarding SQL procedures
Author, test, and maintain database internal stored procedures (PSQL)
Database tuning, performance optimization and data realignments
Database engineering design and planning consistent with software development life cycle
Hardware and software administration of database platform equipment