Database Administrator

Position Summary

Base-2 Solutions is seeking a Database Administrator to support a mission focused on designing and implementing a data-centric architecture leveraging cloud computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cross-domain transfer systems. The role supports a platform centralizing and standardizing Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) across the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community enterprise, integrating software to sustain and enhance data exploitation and analytics capabilities.

• Collaborate with engineers to develop solutions for extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL) heterogeneous datasets.
• Administer, maintain, upgrade, and optimize databases to address technical debt.
• Design, maintain, and improve database schemas and data models.
• Participate in engineering design sessions to understand dependencies and interactions with POSTMAN data stores.
• Document database design, implementation, and interactions with other systems.
• Define formats and structure for data exports and imports.
• Define APIs to share data, including endpoints, authentication, authorization, segmentation, structure, and format.
• Manage multiple database instances and interactions to ensure data consistency across the POSTMAN platform.
• Support CI/CD automation, code promotion, and deployment operations.
• Participate in daily scrums and program increment planning sessions.

• Bachelor's Degree with 8 years of relevant experience or Master's Degree with 6 years of relevant experience or 4 additional years of experience in lieu of degree.
• Ability to obtain Privileged User Account (PUA); must have Security+ and cloud certifications to qualify for access.
• 3+ years administering databases including SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.
• 3+ years of database scripting using interface tools including command line interfaces.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in designing database schema, data models (Relational, Entity-Relationship, Object-based, etc.), and performance tuning.
• Experience administering databases both on-premises and on cloud platforms.
• Experience monitoring database health and developing solutions to mitigate risks of performance and Service-level Agreements (SLAs).
• Experience working with a highly technical team in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Experience segregating data access through record locking or other solutions.
• Experience documenting and implementing security controls; providing POAMs for vulnerabilities and security findings.
• Experience managing multiple database instances across environments.
• Experience managing multiple data connections and interfaces.
• Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner.

• Familiarity with data integration with Postgres SQL and Elasticsearch.
• Familiarity with PSQL CLI and open-source Postgres GUI.
• Familiarity with AWS S3.
• Familiarity with Appian and SAIL.
• Certifications in RDBMS and/or No
  
  SQL Databases.
• Experience with Agile software development (Scrum, SAFe).
• Experience with Dev Ops/Dev Sec Ops  and CI/CD implementation.
• Experience with Elasticsearch Kibana in developing visualizations/dashboards and conducting analyses.
• Experience with other database systems (Relational / Graph / No
  
  SQL) and data models.
• Experience with Python, JSON, or Java.
• Experience with Intelligence Community data products.
• AWS Cloud Associate Certifications in at least one of the following:
  Developer;
  Data Engineer, Cloud Ops Engineer, Solutions Architect.

• Bachelor's Degree with 8 years of experience.
• Master's Degree with 6 years of experience.
• No degree with 12 years of experience.

• Security+
• Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner

• Active Top Secret/SCI