Sr. Database Administrator
About The Position
At Accenture Federal Services, our purpose is to make the US federal government stronger and safer, and to improve people's lives through technology and ingenuity. We are a collaborative and caring community where you can grow, learn, and thrive. Join us to drive positive, lasting change that moves missions and the government forward! The Work: Responsible for delivering expert database administration support across Oracle, Postgres, and MS SQL environments within a mid- to large-scale enterprise setting. Perform daily database health checks, validates backups, proactively monitors datacenter resources, resolves issues, and implements preventative measures. Support full lifecycle activities including planning, coordinating, and executing release notices, performing authorized maintenance, and deploying new servers or databases. Contribute heavily to operational excellence through dynamic user-issue documentation, bi-weekly updates, task-based procedural documentation, and improvements to current infrastructure processes. Additional responsibilities include managing team ticket queues as needed, onboarding new team members, participating in weekly meetings, and helping drive enhancements in training, user documentation, and support tools.
Requirements
- 8 years of experience in database administration
- Strong to expert-level knowledge of Oracle, Postgres, and MS SQL databases and applications
- Ability to provide dynamic problem documentation (definition, resolution, reporting)
- Ability to support scheduled after-hours maintenance
- Experience serving as queue manager to assign incoming tickets
- Industry experience developing, deploying, and supporting database systems at scale
- Full project lifecycle experience: design, development, implementation, documentation
- Experience with Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Linux familiarity required
- Understanding of enterprise systems management (configuration management, ESD, etc.)
- Knowledge of scalability principles, economies of scale, and cost-of-ownership impacts
- Broad understanding of cloud technologies, applications, and protocols (TCP/IP, Active Directory, Oracle/Postgres/SQL DBs, Apache Tomcat, MS IIS)
- U.S. Citizen
Responsibilities
- Deliver expert database administration support across Oracle, Postgres, and MS SQL environments.
- Perform daily database health checks.
- Validate backups.
- Proactively monitor datacenter resources.
- Resolve database issues and implement preventative measures.
- Support full lifecycle activities including planning, coordinating, and executing release notices.
- Perform authorized maintenance.
- Deploy new servers or databases.
- Contribute to operational excellence through documentation (user-issue, bi-weekly updates, procedural).
- Improve current infrastructure processes.
- Manage team ticket queues.
- Onboard new team members.
- Participate in weekly meetings.
- Drive enhancements in training, user documentation, and support tools.
Benefits
- Hands-on experience
- Certifications
- Industry training
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
