Senior Database Administrator

Description

SAIC is seeking a skilled Senior Database Administrator in Middletown, RI to administer, maintain, secure and optimize Microsoft SQL Server environments supporting business-critical application and data services. The ideal candidate has strong hands-on SQL Server administration experience and practical experience operating databases in cloud environments, preferably Microsoft Azure. Experience supporting Amazon Web Services (AWS) database services is a plus.

Key Responsibilities:

• Administer and maintain Microsoft SQL Server databases across development, test, staging, and production environments.

• Monitor database health, availability, performance, capacity, and security; identify and resolve issues before they affect mission or business operations.

• Perform database installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, migrations, and version lifecycle management.

• Develop, test, and maintain backup, restoration, high-availability, and disaster-recovery procedures.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, cybersecurity, data science, information systems, or information technology and five (5) years or more experience; Masters and three (3) years or more experience.

• Security+, GSEC, Security+, or SSCP; equivalent certification.

• Experience with Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Monitor, Azure Backup, Azure Storage, and Azure networking concepts.

• Experience planning or executing SQL Server migrations to Azure.

• Experience with AWS database services.

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, or automation tools.

• Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD practices for database deployments.

• Strong troubleshooting skills.

• Ability to work individually, and in a team.

• Strong documentation and process-improvement habits.

• Willingness to learn evolving cloud database technologies.

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