Database Administrator Master Job Northern Kentucky USA,IT/Tech

At Significance, we believe the best results come from investing in great people. As a woman-owned consulting firm supporting federal civilian and Department of Defense customers, we bring together talented professionals who are passionate about solving complex challenges and making a meaningful impact.

We're proud of the culture we've built - one rooted in trust, collaboration, respect, and genuine relationships. Our people are empowered to share ideas, grow their careers, and deliver exceptional results while supporting missions that matter. It's a culture we're proud of, and one that has earned us recognition as a Washington Business Journal Best Place to Work for seven consecutive years.

Significance, Inc. is seeking a Database Administrator Master to support an upcoming federal program (contingent upon award). This position is primarily remote, with occasional onsite support at the Department of Labor (DOL) office in Washington, DC, as needed. This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.

The U.S. Department of Labor runs its books on NCFMS, an Oracle E-Business Suite platform that moved roughly $70 billion in FY 2024 for about 1,600 users. You will be the senior database authority for every NCFMS environment, from Development through Disaster Recovery to Production. You own availability, performance, integrity, patch currency, and security posture of the database tier. When the nightly batch or the year-end close is at risk, the call comes to you.

Objective: keep the NCFMS database tier available, fast, recoverable, patch-current, and audit-defensible across all environments, so DOL's financial operations and reporting deadlines are never missed for a database reason.

Required Skills:

Minimum 8 years of hands-on Oracle E-Business Suite Application Experience
Administer the full landscape - Development, QA/Test, UAT, Training, COOP/Disaster Recovery, and Production - under a formal Instance Management Plan.
Database administration across all environments:
Perform backups, restores, and instance overlay and refresh across all environments.
Install and configure databases; manage security controls; harden the database tier.
Tune and monitor performance; manage table spaces; assure data integrity.
Maintain custom and core database tables in the Development and Test environments.
Run security scans in Development and Test and provide regular analysis and findings to customers.
Performance, capacity, and availability
Size and optimize the system against anticipated workload to prevent degradation in responsiveness and capacity.
Track and report performance metrics under the Quality Control Plan and the Monthly Status Report.
Monitor and manage business-critical nightly batch processing.
Support system availability against the contract uptime requirement, excluding scheduled outages for planned deployments.
Patch management and change control
Apply Oracle quarterly Critical Patch Updates and Patch Set Updates at least quarterly, or sooner on emerging threats or critical advisories.
Brief customer on each CPU/PSU release: release date, covered vulnerabilities, applicability to systems, and recommended actions.
Support the database sections of the Final Release Plan and the Detailed Deployment Plan, delivered 15 business days before production deployment, plus post-deployment monitoring and stabilization.
Infrastructure, resilience, and recovery
Administer the Oracle middle tier: install Middleware products, deploy application processes, harden middleware, and manage SSL.
Execute backup, restore, and media management: automated backup, backup encryption, on-site and off-site media access control, and daily secure off-site transfer to meet the Recovery Point Objective.
Support COOP and Disaster Recovery
Interfaces and escalation support
Provide database-side support to the internal and external interfaces, including AMS, Grant Solutions, the Payment Management System, ETS2/Go.Gov, SAM, NFC, Treasury HRConnect/HR Works, the Secure Payment System, G-Invoicing, the Trust Fund Interface, CARS, CIRA, IPP, the Quick Pay mailbox and Tungsten Mark View, Data Act Broker, FPDS-NG, the Citibank Purchase Card interface, and the DOL internal interfaces (ETA/OJC UMS, Mail-Rent-Security, EMPS, OWCP CRS, DBC DEBS, BLS MIS, BLS ATRA).
Serve as the database subject matter expert for Tier 2 and Tier 3 escalations that cannot be resolved through the user interface.
Security, privacy, and audit
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