Senior Database Administrator Security Clearance

Position: Senior Database Administrator with Security Clearance
Overview VTG is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Database Administrator to join our dynamic and innovative team in Chantilly, VA. What will you do?

* Primary responsibilities:

Overall responsibilities include performing all necessary procedures for several databases across environments. Specific development, test, and production responsibilities will include:

• Install and maintain database software hosted on AWS Relational Database Service (RDS) or directly on EC2 instances

• Providing team with database schema designs adhering to relational database and cloud best practices for active-active deployments in the cloud

• Providing corporate applications with DBA consultation and technical support

• Evaluate and update dataset designs for improved performance

• Maintain database documents, SOP, patch release history, confluence pages and other records as needed

• Support database security hardening

• Address and troubleshoot technical problems

• Perform routine database patching and upgrades Do you have what it takes?
* Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

• Required BS degree and 13+ years of prior relevant experience or MS degree with 10-13 years of prior experience

• Knowledgeable in delivering enterprise database solutions in the AWS cloud

• Prior experience reading and developing solutions to customer requirements

• Experience with database technologies, Oracle, Postgre

SQL, MySQL, and/or Aurora

• Knowledgeable of and ability to work with developers to support the eventual consistency model

• Ability to identify vulnerabilities from scans and propose and implement solution to resolve vulnerabilities

• Experience in implementing and managing backups

• Knowledge of consistency, availability, and partition tolerance for making informed decisions about the database architecture and its behavior during a network partition