Senior Database Administrator

Overview

DecisionPoint Corporation is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to join our team on an upcoming contract to support the Unites States Coast Guard USCG) Aviation Logistics Center (ALC) Information Systems Division (ISD) in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. The USCG ALC ISD provides development, security, and operations (DevSecOps) IT support for products and services for the Coast Guard Information Officer (CIO), Commandant, and Coast Guard Cyber Command through a geo-dispersed workforce including military, civilians, an contractor personnel committed to supporting the USCG’s missions and requirements of the leading growing interconnectivity, increased reliance on data and networks, and development of commercial space and artificial intelligence systems.

Position is on-site with off-site capabilities.

Duties & Responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities of the Senior Database Administrator include:

• Administer, test, and implement computer databases, applying knowledge of DBMS.
• Coordinate changes to computer databases.
• May plan, coordinate, and implement security measures to safeguard computer databases.
• Participate in the database design and implementation process.
• Develop and test logical and physical database designs.
• Review logical and physical designs of existing databases and perform tuning as the senior database specialist, to ensure maximum operating efficiency.
• Perform data analysis, database design, development activities, and implementation, as directed, for databases and database conversions.
• Perform database-restructuring activities.
• Work with users and information systems development staff to determine data storage and access requirements.
• Provides highly technical expertise and guidance in the design, implementation, operation and maintenance of DBMSs.
• Evaluates and recommends available DBMS products after matching requirements with system capabilities.
• Determines file organization, indexing methods, and security procedures for specific applications.
• Controls the design and use of databases.
• Controls the global view of databases, the access to the databases, assures the safekeeping of the databases (from accidental or intentional damage or loss), and monitors the use of databases.
• Capable of defining all required database administration policies, procedures, standards, guidelines, and SOP.

Qualifications

• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance. 
• Bachelor’s or associate degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Math, or related field or at minimum IT Certification.
  • Note: Five (5) years' experience is equivalent to one (2) years of education.
• Five (5) years of experience in database administration work, such as Oracle relational database, Ingres relational database, and Microsoft SQL Server.
• Two (2) years of experience with Kubernetes, Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket or equivalent.
• Five (5) years of performing security remediation to systems with vulnerabilities based on security scans.

Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

• EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
• Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.
• Authorization to Share Resume and Personal Information: By expressing your interest and submitting your resume for this position, you authorize DecisionPoint Corporation to share your resume, as well as personal information included on the resume, with its subsidiaries, affiliates and teaming partners for the purpose of considering you for this position and other available positions requiring comparable skills, education and experience. Should DecisionPoint Corporation. or its affiliates and teaming partners wish to initiate pre-employment discussions, you will be asked to complete an employment application and related employment documents.