Senior Database Administrator - SAT/SUN OFF DAYS

Govcio LLC

117d • $124,540 - $151,286

About The Position

GovCIO is currently hiring for MULTIPLE Database Administrator(s) to support our customer, USPS’ Network and Compute Technology (NCT) group. The NCT is responsible for the planning, development, implementation, and support of the USPS network and compute technology infrastructure. NCT enhances the postal network by implementing network segmentation, which divides the network into smaller parts to mitigate cybersecurity risks and improve performance. The NCT department manages local area, wireless, and wide area network connections for over 32,000 USPS facilities, including the data center, internet, cloud, and business partner networks. NCT manages and oversees the Postal Service’s cloud services and data center infrastructure, which includes more than 24,000 servers, 110 petabytes of storage, and multiple cloud provider services to enable applications. Additionally, NCT is responsible for keeping the digital networks across the USPS landscape and compute infrastructures for applications running optimally, ensuring that they are secure and reliable 24/7. This position is located in various areas within the United States and will be a full remote position.

Requirements

• Bachelor's with 20+ years (or commensurate experience).
• Able to diagnose and resolve complex problems in an Oracle RDBMS environment.
• Strong working knowledge, experience and ability with technologies such as UNIX and Microsoft Windows operating systems as well as other database technologies such as Postgres, NoSQL, SQL and Cassandra DB.
• Clearance Required: Candidates must be US Citizens or Permanent Residents to obtain and maintain US Postal Service Public Trust.

Nice To Haves

• Prior United States Postal Service (USPS) experience or active USPS Public Trust.
• Experience with middle tier technologies including web and application servers, containers and container management technologies, messaging technologies, cloud platform and services, automation tools, scripting languages and monitoring tools.
• Hands on experience with Apache Tomcat, Wildly, Oracle Fusion Middle Tier (OFM), IBM WebSphere, Apache HTTP, Kubernetes, Docker and other types of containers, IBM MQ, Kafka, Zookeeper, RedHat OpenShift, RedHat 3scale Ansible, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Linux shell scripting, Microsoft PowerShell, JYTHON, AppDynamics, Zabbix, SolarWinds, Neustar and Splunk.

Responsibilities

• Perform complex functional activities in support of Oracle RDBMS products and services, including but not limited to the upgrade, installation and maintenance of Oracle RDBMS products and services in a complex Oracle RDBMS production environment.
• Diagnose and resolve complex problems in an Oracle RDBMS environment.
• Provide day-to-day incident and deployment support of multiple database technologies, including Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres.
• Manage incident response via the USPS ServiceNow application in accordance with the published USPS Change Management Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Perform a technical leadership role in incident response, maintenance, documentation, and support of a large, complex, distributed server environment.
• Develop growth plans as needed to ensure that the hosting environment can support the projected growth of the application environment.
• Develop and implement procedures that support proactive problem detection and avoidance, including disaster recovery planning and implementation.
• Create and maintain project plans as necessary in accordance with US Postal Service standards.
• Analyze and resolve complex hardware and software problems issues.
• Assist USPS development community to perform tests and implement software, adds, and changes.
• Develop and implement operational management process and procedures.
• Track inventory and complete and provide documentation required for deploying servers.
• Use alert monitoring tools chosen by USPS Management.
• Provide reports to users and managers of systems status on an as requested basis.
• Provide weekly status reports and maintain hours worked on projects.
• Provide action plan for resolution of any/all faults detected.
• Perform isolation testing of problem equipment and/or software.
• Provide documentation of all solutions to problems and document all application guidelines and issues.
• Interact with all USPS functional groups to accomplish objectives.
• Create and edit computer-based documentation and trouble ticket systems to document equipment configurations, track changes and problems, and compile performance data.
• Provide assistance, training and information sharing to users and other administrators.

Benefits

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Corporate Discounts
• Learning & Development platform, to include certification preparation content
• Training, Education and Certification Assistance
• Referral Bonus Program
• Internal Mobility Program
• Pet Insurance
• Flexible Work Environment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees