Senior Database Administrator

Company Overview:

At OAS, we're not just growing; we're soaring! As a dynamic management consulting firm, we specialize in powering the aviation industry forward. Our expertise? Crafting tailored strategies that blend cutting-edge technical solutions with deep organizational insights, all aimed at elevating our civilian and military aviation partners.

The Senior Database Administrator provides advanced database engineering, administration, sustainment, and modernization support for FAA operational systems and infrastructure. The role supports configuration management, logistics coordination, systems test support, engineering support, maintenance, operational troubleshooting, help desk related issue resolution, and information system security activities associated with mission-critical infrastructure environments.
This position is on site at either Atlantic City, NJ or Boonsboro, MD.

The position is responsible for supporting secure, high-performance relational and nonrelational databases and for maintaining resilient database services aligned to continuity of operations, failover, disaster recovery, and recovery validation requirements. The role includes active support for backup and recovery testing, RPO/RTO-related technical documentation, restoration testing, performance tuning, configuration baseline control, patching, and technical analysis of emerging modernization requirements.

The successful candidate must be comfortable supporting infrastructure that includes Linux, Windows, FAA data center, and cloud-connected environments, and supporting modernization planning that references virtualization, hybrid containerized architecture, Kubernetes, Open Shift, Docker, logging, monitoring, CI/CD, RBAC, vulnerability scanning, and patching where these technologies are used within the FAA environment.

• Design, implement, maintain, and optimize secure, high-performance relational and nonrelational databases supporting operational and engineering objectives.
• Perform query tuning, performance optimization, capacity planning, schema support, backup and restoration planning, and technical troubleshooting to preserve database resilience and availability.
• Implement and support high-availability and disaster recovery capabilities such as replication, clustering, geo-redundancy, and automated failover, exactly as contemplated by the SOW database engineering support requirements.

• Define, manage, and track database-related configuration items, documentation, and approved baselines in alignment with FAA configuration management expectations.
• Support version-controlled changes, documentation of planned and tracked modifications, validation of implemented changes, and rollback planning for critical database-related changes.
• Support configuration audits and reporting activities verifying that the actual database environment matches documented baselines and approved system-state expectations.

• Support development and execution of test plans, procedures, schedules, and environments for functional, integration, regression, acceptance, migration, backup, recovery, and restoration testing.
• Document test results, discrepancy reports, corrective actions, and traceability to system requirements and operational expectations.
• Conduct backup and recovery testing, restoration testing, and support periodic DR drills and failover validation to ensure readiness during system or site-level disruptions.

• Support engineering activities involving high-availability distributed systems with integrated disaster recovery and failover requirements.
• Develop technical documentation for failover procedures, recovery point objectives (RPO), recovery time objectives (RTO), and restoration workflows required by the Program Office.
• Support platform modernization assessments and target-state planning involving virtualized infrastructure, hybrid containerized architecture, Kubernetes, Open Shift, Docker, CI/CD, RBAC, password…