Database Administrator - Apex Systems

Job#: 2042111

Job Description:

Position: Database Administrator
Salary: 100K-120K
Location: Hybrid (3/2) in Charleston, SC
What You’ll Get to Do:

• Coordinate with multiple teams: external data team, test team, developer team, and UX designer.
• Build and refine application database based on feature requirements that get refined and updated sprint-by-sprint.
• Maintain logical data mapping between application database and external data sources.
• Create and maintain a large test dataset for the application (a minimum of multiple thousands of rows).
• Track, version, deploy, and rollback database changes to production and development databases.
• Configure databases to meet cybersecurity requirements, ensure regulatory compliance, and adhere to database best practices,
• Analyze and write complex queries to support gathering metrics, troubleshooting application issues, and diagnosing performance issues.
• Work closely with members of the development, test, and operations teams to troubleshoot build breaks, enforce software quality standards, and deployment of the application to non-production and production environments.
• Stay abreast of industry standards and apply innovations
• Executing MySQL statements to support the development team and table migrations during deployment of new versions of the application.

• Presents ideas for system improvements. Conducts impact analysis for software changes.
• Team-oriented individual with a strong work ethic and self-motivated.
• Ability to obtain/maintain a DoD Secret clearance.
• Ability to become Security+ certified within six months of hire.

• 5+ years’ experience as a Database Administrator
• Active Secret clearance
• College degree (B.S.) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems or a related discipline.
• Current Security+ certification
• Prior experience with continuous integration, test automation and/or CI/CD on iterative software development projects
• Experience with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL

EEO Employer

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