Database Administrator - SAIC
Quantico, VA 22134
About the Job
Job ID: 2413249
Location: QUANTICO, VA, US
Date Posted: 2024-10-15
Category: Information Technology
Subcategory: Database Admin
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time
Minimum Clearance Required: Top Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: TS/SCI
Potential for Remote Work: No
Description
Introduction
Make a difference for national security by joining a team of dedicated IT professionals who will sustain, modernize and transform the enterprise IT capabilities of the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA). The Air Force and Combatant Commands Business Group of SAIC is seeking a Database Administrator to support a transformational infrastructure program for DCSA.
SAIC is proud to be supporting DCSA in safeguarding our nation's information. DCSA is the designated oversight authority on the accreditation of classified facilities, information systems, and the insider threat program. This involves security oversight of more than 10,000 companies and approximately 13,000 facilities involved in classified work throughout the DoD and 31 Federal agencies.
Specifically, on the DCSA One IT program, SAIC will provide an enterprise IT solution that delivers highly secured and adaptable IT infrastructure, provides customer support, and cutting-edge technologies that support operations and advance the DCSA mission under a single IT environment (i.e., One IT).
Job Description
Supports lifecycle database management services for all system, production application, pre-production, and backup databases residing on DCSA networks as part of the overall strategic objective of the DCSA IT modernization and One IT initiatives to provide an improved flexible and evolving enterprise IT environment to support the DCSA mission IAW with DCSA and DoD policies and procedures and commonly utilized industry best practices.
Supports translation of improvement requirements and requests into detailed functional and technical specifications and project plans for the data management team, as well as, ensures compliance with government data standard and records management policies.
Recommends and implements emerging database technologies.
Ensures all database instances have required security controls applied in accordance with DCSA policies (e.g., access controls, STIGs, version updates, etc.).
Selects, maintains, and operates database management tools.
Provisions, modifies and manages data schema, cloning and backup, troubleshooting, account management, enhancement, optimization, and decommissioning.
Performs schema changes and conversions of the production database during application upgrades and new version releases.
Reviews, tests and recommends database software upgrades, as well as, ensures database vendor license agreement compliance.
Supports efforts to optimize and maintain databases, clusters, and replications for pre-production, production, and backup; ensures current application upgrades and releases are timely; and provides scripting to support database content and reporting.
Monitors, collects, analyzes, and reports database metrics, such as growth and usage of capabilities.
Performs daily database operations checks and status reports.
Coordinates with third-party vendors on and documents database issues and resolution.
Develops database dictionaries.
Creates and executes backup and recovery capabilities, as well as, disaster recovery/business continuity plans and other procedure and system documentation for development and production database environments.
Provide inputs into the Activity Report.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
It is required that the Database Administrator have the following qualifications:
Desired Qualifications
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.
Location: QUANTICO, VA, US
Date Posted: 2024-10-15
Category: Information Technology
Subcategory: Database Admin
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time
Minimum Clearance Required: Top Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: TS/SCI
Potential for Remote Work: No
Description
Introduction
Make a difference for national security by joining a team of dedicated IT professionals who will sustain, modernize and transform the enterprise IT capabilities of the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA). The Air Force and Combatant Commands Business Group of SAIC is seeking a Database Administrator to support a transformational infrastructure program for DCSA.
SAIC is proud to be supporting DCSA in safeguarding our nation's information. DCSA is the designated oversight authority on the accreditation of classified facilities, information systems, and the insider threat program. This involves security oversight of more than 10,000 companies and approximately 13,000 facilities involved in classified work throughout the DoD and 31 Federal agencies.
Specifically, on the DCSA One IT program, SAIC will provide an enterprise IT solution that delivers highly secured and adaptable IT infrastructure, provides customer support, and cutting-edge technologies that support operations and advance the DCSA mission under a single IT environment (i.e., One IT).
Job Description
Supports lifecycle database management services for all system, production application, pre-production, and backup databases residing on DCSA networks as part of the overall strategic objective of the DCSA IT modernization and One IT initiatives to provide an improved flexible and evolving enterprise IT environment to support the DCSA mission IAW with DCSA and DoD policies and procedures and commonly utilized industry best practices.
Supports translation of improvement requirements and requests into detailed functional and technical specifications and project plans for the data management team, as well as, ensures compliance with government data standard and records management policies.
Recommends and implements emerging database technologies.
Ensures all database instances have required security controls applied in accordance with DCSA policies (e.g., access controls, STIGs, version updates, etc.).
Selects, maintains, and operates database management tools.
Provisions, modifies and manages data schema, cloning and backup, troubleshooting, account management, enhancement, optimization, and decommissioning.
Performs schema changes and conversions of the production database during application upgrades and new version releases.
Reviews, tests and recommends database software upgrades, as well as, ensures database vendor license agreement compliance.
Supports efforts to optimize and maintain databases, clusters, and replications for pre-production, production, and backup; ensures current application upgrades and releases are timely; and provides scripting to support database content and reporting.
Monitors, collects, analyzes, and reports database metrics, such as growth and usage of capabilities.
Performs daily database operations checks and status reports.
Coordinates with third-party vendors on and documents database issues and resolution.
Develops database dictionaries.
Creates and executes backup and recovery capabilities, as well as, disaster recovery/business continuity plans and other procedure and system documentation for development and production database environments.
Provide inputs into the Activity Report.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
It is required that the Database Administrator have the following qualifications:
- BA/BS.
- Nine (9) or more years of relevant experience. Four (4) additional years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Top Secret clearance (SCI eligible).
- IAT-II certification in one of the following areas, CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND and/or SSCP.
- Applicable Database Compute Environment Certification.
Desired Qualifications
- Five (5) or more years of experience as DBA in Oracle 12c/18c/19c/21c/23c utilizing tools including, but not limited to, Transparent Data Encryption, Data Guard, RAC, and RMAN.
- Red Hat Linux experience.
- Unix/Linus Shell scripting experience.
- Familiarity with the project Management process.
- TS/SCI.
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.
Source : SAIC
