A recognized government organization in Virginia is currently seeking a new Relational Database Administrator to join their growing team in a Remote capacity. Responsibilities: The Relational Database Administrator will be responsible for:
- Ensuring data is stored, organized, displayed, and analyzed in a way that allows users to perform business-related tasks
- Installing, maintaining, and optimizing database servers and systems to ensure they run efficiently and are available to authorized users
- Managing database access
- Creating and managing reports, visualizations, and dashboards
- Automating repeating tasks
- Diagnosing and troubleshooting database errors
- Performing other duties, as needed
Qualifications:
- 4+ years of hands-on experience in Relational Database Administration
- 2+ years of experience administering DB2 databases
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- Strong understanding of relational databases and distributed database management
- Proven experience in planning, installation, configuration, and maintenance of database instances
- Experience in architectural DB designs at an enterprise level including high availability (HA) and scalable architectures
- Demonstrated ability in disaster recovery planning and execution in HA environments
- High proficiency with physical database and schema design in 3rd normal form
- Familiarity with logical-to-physical data modeling
- Experience in measuring RDBMS performance, using performance metrics to identify bottlenecks, and planning system-level configurations and other optimizations to mitigate performance bottlenecks
- Hands-on experience with bulk loading of structured data
- Familiarity with database security best practices and techniques
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Effective time management skills and problem-solving skills
Desired Skills:
- 6+ years of hands-on experience in Relational Da0tabase Administration
- 4+ years of experience administering DB2
- Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- Certification in DB2 administration or related technologies
- Experience in evaluating and utilizing software products for RDBMS monitoring
- Skilled in tuning and optimizing poorly performing queries
- Hands on experience with RDBMS versioning software (LiquiBase, Flyway, etc.)
- Strong team leadership skills to drive DB schema and architectural designs, as well as mentor and guide team members
- Experience with automation and scripting languages for database administration tasks (Python, Ansible, bash, etc.)
- Experience with change data capture and replication technologies such as IBM Infosphere Data Replication
- Familiarity with JSON/document Databases, such as Couchbase or Mongo DB
- Experience administering other RDBMS (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PosgreSQL)
- Familiarity with Cloud-based Database Solutions