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Senior Database Administrator

DecisionPoint seeks two Senior Database Administrators to support daily database operations, monitoring, maintenance, access administration, patching, backup and recovery, and troubleshooting under the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. These positions will administer Microsoft SQL Server environments supporting mission applications, data analysis, AI-related data activities, and data warehouse operations. The Database Administrators will maintain database health, security, performance, and recoverability while supporting approved schema changes and maintaining accurate operational documentation. The successful candidates will collaborate with database architects, data engineers, application teams, infrastructure personnel, cybersecurity specialists, and Government stakeholders to sustain reliable database services and resolve operational issues. These positions are remote, with Chicago-area candidates preferred.

Duties & Responsibilities The Senior Database Administrators will:

• Perform daily monitoring and administration of Microsoft SQL Server environments.
• Monitor database availability, performance, capacity, storage utilization, job execution, and system alerts.
• Execute scheduled maintenance, integrity checks, indexing, statistics updates, and other approved database maintenance activities.
• Plan and implement approved database patches and updates, including pre-change checks, validation, and rollback preparation.
• Administer database accounts, roles, permissions, and service access in accordance with approved access requests.
• Review access configurations and support periodic access validation.
• Execute and monitor database backups, investigate failures, and maintain backup records.
• Perform database restores and recovery testing to verify recoverability.
• Support outage restoration and database recovery in coordination with architecture, infrastructure, application, and operations teams.
• Troubleshoot database connectivity, job failures, blocking, resource contention, integrity issues, and performance degradation.
• Tune queries, indexes, configurations, and maintenance processes within approved technical standards.
• Support database and warehouse operations, including scheduled loads, data refreshes, and integration dependencies.
• Implement approved schema changes, database objects, and configuration updates.
• Coordinate changes with application, data engineering, analytics, and testing teams.
• Validate database health and dependent services following maintenance, patches, schema changes, or restoration.
• Support database security monitoring and remediation of assigned findings.
• Maintain operational logs, incident records, change documentation, configuration records, and maintenance procedures.
• Update backup, recovery, troubleshooting, and administration runbooks.
• Escalate complex architectural, availability, security, or performance issues to the Database Architect and appropriate technical leads.
• Support operational handoffs, knowledge transfer, and continuous improvement of database administration practices.

Qualifications Required Qualifications The following must-have qualifications are drawn from the supplied position requirements:

• Active Secret clearance or higher.
• Minimum of eight years of relevant professional experience.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, information systems, or a related field, or a permitted equivalent.
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server administration.
• Experience performing database patching.
• Experience administering database access controls.
• Experience with database performance tuning.
• Experience performing database backup and recovery.
• Ability to perform daily database monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Ability to support warehouse operations, approved schema changes, and database documentation.
• CompTIA Security+ CE or another approved IAT Level II certification.

Preferred Qualifications The following qualifications are preferred but are not required:

• Relevant database platform certification.
• Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense database environments.
• Experience with SQL Server Agent, Transact-SQL, and database administration scripting.
• Experience supporting high-availability configurations, replication, or failover operations.
• Experience supporting data warehouses, ETL/ELT jobs, and scheduled data integrations.
• Familiarity with database auditing, encryption, vulnerability remediation, and configuration hardening.
• Experience automating monitoring, maintenance, backup validation, or administrative tasks.
• Experience supporting database migrations, upgrades, refreshes, and recovery exercises.
• Familiarity with cloud-hosted or hybrid database environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and cross-team coordination skills.

Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

• EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
• Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.
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