Database Administrator

Database Administrator

100% Remote. ASSESSMENT Mandatory!! Location: Richmond, VA Duration: Long Term

We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Database Administrator to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, maintaining, and optimizing our database infrastructure to ensure high performance, security, and availability of our critical data assets.

Job Duties

Designs, installs, maintains, and upgrades databases across production and non-production environments. Provides technical expertise in traditional and cloud database technologies, ensuring the overall performance, scalability, and security of the enterprise's database ecosystem. This role bridges standard relational database management (SQL Server) with managed cloud services (Amazon RDS) and advanced data governance (Unity Catalog).

Core & Platform-Specific Responsibilities

• Database Planning & Architecture: Plans and organizes database activities regarding reliability, performance monitoring, tuning, security, backup, and disaster recovery across on-premises and cloud instances.
• Performance Optimization: Monitors and analyzes database performance, calibrates DBMS parameters, and troubleshoots complex application (e.g., T-SQL) performance issues to ensure optimal throughput.
• Database Modernization (Amazon RDS): Provisions, configures, and scales Amazon RDS instances (including SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MySQL engines). Manages Multi-AZ deployments, automated snapshots, and storage autoscaling.
• Data Governance & Access Control (Unity Catalog): Implements and manages Databricks Unity Catalog to enforce centralized access control, auditing, lineage tracking, and data security policies across workspace environments.
• Development & Automation: Codes, edits, and installs stored procedures, functions, and automation scripts for accessing, maintaining, and populating databases.
• Security & Permissions: Controls privileges, roles, and permissions for database users, ensuring least-privilege access and compliance with information security standards.
• Lifecycle Management & Support: Performs database upgrades, schema migrations, and additions of new structures. Provides production support and database access 24/7 for critical environments.

Additional Responsibilities

• Environment Management: Maintains development, production, and multiple testing environments across local and cloud environments.
• Capacity Planning: Monitors utilization metrics and storage trends to forecast capacity needs for both physical hardware and cloud-allocated storage.
• Project Collaboration: Works on one or more projects as a core team member or occasional technical lead.
• Documentation & Metadata: Develops and maintains enterprise data documentation, data dictionaries, and technical metadata within Unity Catalog and standard repositories.
• Incident Resolution: Troubleshoots database accessibility, availability, or operability problems; determines root causes, mitigates risks, and implements permanent solutions.

Job Requirements

Experience: 3+ years of database administration experience working with various database management systems (specifically Microsoft SQL Server and cloud-native databases). Preferred Platform Experience: Minimum 1-2 years of hands-on experience managing databases in AWS (Amazon RDS) and managing data governance via Databricks Unity Catalog.

Desired Skills & Experience

Information Seeking: Expanded level; proactively investigates data anomalies and explores new cloud features. Analytical & Conceptual Thinking: Fundamental level; ability to break down complex query performance issues and map data flows. Communication for Results: Fundamental level; effectively collaborates with developers, data engineers, and business stakeholders to explain technical constraints and solutions. Quality Orientation: Fundamental level; ensures high data integrity and adherence to operational standards

About Us: InterSources Inc, a Certified Diverse Supplier, was founded in 2007 and offers innovative solutions to help clients with Digital Transformations across various domains and industries. Our history spans over 16 years and today we are an Award-Winning Global Software Consultancy solving complex problems with technology. We recognize that our employees and our clients are our strengths as the diverse talents and opportunities they bring to the table enable us to grow as a global platform and they are causally linked with our success. We provide strategic and technical advice, and we have expertise in areas covering Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Migration, Custom Software Development, Data Analytics Infrastructure & Cloud Solutions, Cyber Security Services, etc. We make reasonable accommodations for clients and employees and we do not discriminate based on any protected attribute including race, religion, color, national origin, gender sexual orientation, gender identity, age, or marital status. We also are a Google Cloud partner company. We align strategy with execution and provide secure service solutions by developing and using the latest technologies that thrive our resources to deliver industry-leading capabilities to our clients and customers, making it convenient for our clients to do business with InterSources Inc. Our teams also drive growth by refining technology-driven client experiences that put the users first, providing an unparalleled experience. This results in strengthening the core technologies of clients, enabling them to scale with flexibility, create seamless digital experiences and build lifelong relationships.