Database Administrator US CITIZENS ONLY

Database Administrator

Redan LLC is looking for a Database Administrator to be part of a growingteamin the federal sector.

As a Database Administrator, you will provide database administration to include but not limited to database details, database tuning, database query performance analysis, database replication, database schema updates, database backups, database user management, and database reporting of an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL databases.

The Database Administrator develops automations with Cloud Formation and Lambda to provide consistent and repeatable provisioning, deployments, replication, and reporting. The Database Administrator works on administration of the Development, Training, and Production databases and supports application deployments that may or may not involve schema updates throughout the environments.

The ideal candidate excels at problem-solving and must have effective written and oral communication skills with client stakeholders at all organizational and technical levels, showing a passion for performance, excellent problem-solving and time management skills, attention to detail and be adaptive to the organization's changing needs.

What You'll Be Doing

As the Database Administrator at Redan, you will:

• Application of activity and data modeling, transaction/workflow analysis, internal control and risk analysis.
• Utilize modern business methods and performance measurement techniques.
• Provide technical direction to personnel performing systems analysis and system/ subsystem development tasks.
• Coordinate and perform logical and physical systems design.
• Review and prepare system documents and specifications.
• Prepare reports, studies, and documentation, deliver presentations, and participate in meetings.
• Be prepared to provide sound advice as to prioritizing projects or tasks and when to delay.
• Change and Configuration Management best practices.
• Enforce quality standards for engineered solutions and promote continuous improvement.

Profile of Success

Required

• Experience with PostgreSQL on AWS.
• Experience with mission critical, complex environments, high availability and data security regulations for FISMA high environment.
• Experience conducting database administration activities such as user account management, database maintenance, updates, data migration, data backups, data security, performance tuning, and upgrades as needed.
• Experience with maintenance of data replication solutions.
• Experience developing database automations and trusted language extensions.
• Experience establishing and maintaining security and integrity controls.
• Ability to collaborate with clients, technical staff, key partners, developers, product and program management.
• Must be able to work in an Agile Environment and support multiple agile teams.
• Manage and appropriately escalate data related, risks, issues, and challenges.
• Address any issues related to database data, security and performance.
• Must be able to work the hours of 8am-5pm Eastern Time regardless of your home location.

Nice to have skills

• Experience with AWS native tools, Relational Database Service (RDS), and Amazon Aurora Global Databases.
• Experience developing and maintaining infrastructure as code using AWS Cloud Formation (CFN).
• Experience developing and maintaining lambda functions written in Python.
• Experience with mainframe modernization.

Conditions of Employment

• US Citizenship is required.
• Bachelor's degree in science or information systems or equivalent experience is required.
• Minimum of 5 years position-related experience.
Candidate must obtain a Bureau of Prisons MBI or BI Security Clearance, which takes approximately 6 months but can take longer based on the candidate.

Compensation

Pay and benefits information for this position will be provided to interested candidates that apply. Redan offers a package of compensation and benefits to full-time salaried employees.

Redan, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we highly value the diversity of our workforce. We accept resumes from all interested parties and consider applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual preference, personal appearance, family responsibility, the presence of a non-job-related medical condition or physical disability, matriculation, political affiliation, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.