Database Administrator - Active Security Clearance

Job Description

Job Description

CADRE is relied upon for delivering superior insight and leadership to solve the nation's most critical national security challenges in the most demanding environments.

This Database Administrator position is located in Northern Virginia with flexible core hours.

The Database Administrator (DBA) is responsible for implementing, modifying, and deploying software affecting mission critical networks/systems as well as determining ways to organize and store data. The DBA will identify user requirements, set up computer databases, and test and coordinate modifications to the computer database systems. DBA ensures the performance of the system, understands the platform on which the database runs, and adds new users to the system. Finally, the DBA plans and coordinates security measures and has a knowledge of data integrity, backup systems, and database security.

 

Duties : This Database Administrator performs the following core functions:

• Perform server and storage capacity management and planning for the most complex and critical systems
• Recommend and implement process and tool improvements to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization's change management and configuration management processes and systems
• Perform server performance tuning
• Utilize system software to monitor the performance of system files; manages system data to maintain performance efficiencies
• Study system requirements to determine prop r server installation methods and procedures
• Provide technical support in the evaluation of pi inie object names, data elements, and other objects
• Ensure that proposed object definitions are clear, concise, technically correct, and that they represent singular concepts
• Answer users' inquiries regarding computer software and hardware operation to resolve problems
• Enter commands and observe system functioning to verify correct operations and detect errors
• Install and perform minor repairs to hardware, software, and peripheral equipment, following design or installation specifications
• Confer with management, users, and management to establish requirements for new systems or modifications
• Conduct computer diagnostics to investigate and resolve problems and to provide technical assistance and support
• Plan and test capacity requirements
• Inspect equipment and read order sheets to prepare for delivery to users
• Performs other duties asassigned at the direction of Project management

 

Required Qualifications :

• Active Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with poly
• Bachelor's degree preferred, in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a scientific or technical discipline related to the specific skill.
  • No degree + seven (7) year5 relevant experience
  • Associate's degree + five (5) years of relevant experience
  • Bachelor's degree + three (3) years of relevant experience
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience specific to the skill. Someone that is fully capable of delivering capabilities related to a particular skill, language, system, or technology. Ability, training and actual work experience with the specific computer language, systems, and/or technology is significantly more important than the number of years of experience. This is especially true with emerging technologies.
• Experience with Oracle
• Knowledge of Oracle Administration, Oracle system maintenance on Windows environment

 

Desired Qualifications :

• Active TS/SCI with poly with most recent BI/Polygraph dates within the last five years
• Past experience with older versions of Oracle, especially Oracle 11g Advanced Replication experience
• Experience with Backup Exec in a virtual environment

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