Senior Database Engineer

Karsun Solutions, LLC•UNAVAILABLE, United States

6d•Remote

About The Position

Join Karsun Solutions to grow your career with the company transforming possible for the US Government. At Karsun, collaboration drives our community. We’re committed to building an environment where team members from diverse backgrounds can innovate, learn and grow with us. Here at Karsun, the only limit to your potential is the limit of your curiosity. Join Team Karsun, and Find Your Next! As a Senior Database Administrator, you will provide services for databases that support the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) production applications, software development, and application maintenance projects.

Requirements

Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or other IT degree; Engineering, math, and/or science degrees are acceptable substitute degrees
Minimum of 15+ years of relevant experience
Experience in Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server database administration in an enterprise environment
Extensive experience on Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server hosted on On-premise, AWS EC2, AWS RDS or equivalent; Experience in AWS S3, AWS Data Migration Services
Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server database administration experience
Experience in Microsoft based server environments
Experience in Database Lifecycle Management (DLM)
Experience in Data Scrubbing, Data Masking, Data Compare and Review.
Experience in improving Database user / systems authentication robustness.
AWS and/or Azure experience
Relevant certification
The ability to successfully obtain and maintain a U.S. Suitability/Public Trust Background Clearance

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting the FAA
Operating in traditional and agile project models
Working with PTC Integrity (DLM software) is a plus
Installation and management of Always On Availability Groups
Setup and maintain Transparent Data Encryption and column-level encryption
Deployment of Integration Services packages and Reporting Services reports.
Experience with AWS RDS PostgreSQL and Aurora PostgreSQL
DevOps toolchain services (GIT, Ansible Tower, Artifactory, Jenkins, Vault secrets management)

Responsibilities

Provide database administration to databases running on Oracle standalone and Oracle RAC on Linux / SunSolaris servers.
Install, configure, and maintain database application with required patches and updates
Manage database security and user permissions and privileges in accordance with application/database requirements
Develop and/or maintain database objects (tables, views, indexes)
Monitor and optimize database performance and tuning
Manage and ensure compliance with database backup strategies
Customer support to database and associated application development team, owners, and user stakeholders
Maintain Database Lifecycle Management processes detailed by FAA specifications
Provide impact information on proposed changes to application and it’s database structure
Provide schedule and resource requirements to stakeholders concerning proposed changes to the application and associated database
Provide sizing recommendations for any new databases or changes to existing databases, including user/data growth projection and the impact on the server memory and performance characteristics
Participate in meetings with Solution Delivery Service staff and stakeholders
Work with other database administrators to ensure optimal efficiency and optimization of databases, server clusters, replications, back-up strategies, and database services to FAA and its customers.