Database Administrator

Your Impact :

Are you interested in using your skills to help shape the Cyber, Security, & Intel space?  If so, look no further. Amentum is seeking a Database Administrator to join our team of passionate individuals in Chantilly, VA . In this role you will support challenging, mission-critical projects that make a direct impact on the Nation’s security and intelligence mission.

We are seeking a highly skilled Database Administrator to support our software development initiatives within our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of DBA experience with expertise in multi-tiered service-oriented architectures. As a key member of our technology organization, the Database Administrator will play a critical role in ensuring the performance, reliability, and scalability of our data infrastructure. This position directly supports our mission to deliver robust, high-performing software solutions by optimizing database systems, implementing best practices in data management, and proactively addressing performance bottlenecks.

Responsibilities :

• Define, create, maintain, backup, and secure the organization’s databases for multiple systems.
• Designs, develops, builds, analyzes, evaluates, and installs database management systems, including database modeling and design, relational database architecture, metadata, repository creation, and configuration management.
• Uses data mapping, mining, and transformational analysis tools to design and develop databases.
• Determines data storage and optimum storage requirements.
• Evaluate, size, and select technology components for database management systems and application databases, such as software, hardware, and networking capabilities.
• Writes and tunes SQL queries for performance and scalability. Implements comprehensive backup and database replication solutions. Ensures security best practices are followed and compliance with the latest STIGS.
• Set up and manage user and system accounts. Debugs and troubleshoots programs that are malfunctioning or returning / storing incorrect data.