[Hiring] Senior Database Administrator @Falcon IT and Staffing Solutions

Role Description

Our client is seeking a highly motivated and self-directed Sr. Database Administrator (Edifecs) to join a high-performance team supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) data migration to, and ongoing support and maintenance of, cloud-hosted databases. This role offers an opportunity to work in a modern database cloud ecosystem, apply leading technologies, and act as a trusted technical advisor to the customer.

• Install, configure, patch, upgrade, and maintain database management systems, including Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
• Create, configure, and maintain database objects, including tables, indexes, views, stored procedures, triggers, schemas, and related database components.
• Monitor, analyze, and optimize database performance through query optimization, index management, execution-plan analysis, capacity planning, and configuration tuning.
• Conduct regular database performance assessments and implement improvements to sustain optimal response times, throughput, availability, and system reliability.
• Develop, implement, test, and maintain database backup, recovery, retention, and disaster-recovery strategies that protect data integrity and availability.
• Perform routine backups, recovery validation, restore testing, and recovery drills to verify that databases can be restored following system failures, data corruption, or disaster events.
• Implement, enforce, and continuously improve database security policies, procedures, and technical controls.
• Administer database user accounts, access permissions, roles, authentication, authorization, encryption, data masking, and audit controls in accordance with organizational policies and compliance requirements.
• Monitor databases for performance degradation, error conditions, resource constraints, security events, and potential operational issues using approved monitoring and alerting tools.
• Perform recurring database maintenance activities, including patching, upgrades, statistics updates, index maintenance, archival activities, and storage optimization.
• Provide technical support and advanced troubleshooting for database-related incidents, service requests, application issues, connectivity problems, and data-performance concerns.
• Collaborate with application developers, system administrators, cloud engineers, and other technical staff to diagnose and resolve database issues and implement reliable solutions.
• Support the design, deployment, configuration, and administration of cloud-hosted database services and associated infrastructure.
• Maintain comprehensive technical documentation for database architectures, configurations, maintenance activities, backup and recovery procedures, operational processes, and support runbooks.
• Create and update database operational manuals, standards, guidelines, and procedures to support consistent and compliant administration practices.
• Ensure databases comply with applicable industry standards, regulations, security practices, and organizational data-management requirements.
• Stay current with database-management technologies, cloud-service capabilities, security practices, and industry trends; recommend and implement relevant process and technology improvements.
• Support multiple database initiatives simultaneously while managing priorities, meeting deadlines, and ensuring high-quality results.
• Participate in on-call support, emergency maintenance, incident response, and service-restoration activities as required.

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years of database-administration experience, preferably supporting Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server environments.
• Proven expertise administering, maintaining, securing, and optimizing Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases.
• Experience with database design, architecture, logical and physical data models, database deployment, and lifecycle management.
• Strong experience in database performance tuning, query optimization, index strategy, execution-plan analysis, capacity planning, backup and recovery, and security management.
• Proficiency creating and optimizing complex SQL queries, stored procedures, functions, triggers, and database objects.
• Expertise in PL/SQL programming and Oracle database optimization.
• Experience implementing query-optimization and indexing strategies for both Oracle and SQL Server databases.
• Proficiency using database-performance monitoring and diagnostic tools to identify, analyze, and resolve database performance issues.
• Thorough knowledge of backup, recovery, point-in-time recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, replication, and automated backup-management strategies.
• Experience designing, implementing, and managing automated backup, recovery, and database-maintenance solutions.
• Strong knowledge of database security best practices for Oracle and SQL Server, including user authentication, authorization, role-based access, encryption, key management, data masking, auditing, and data-protection controls.
• Experience with database monitoring and maintenance tools, including capabilities for backup automation, snapshots, scaling, replication, and read replicas, as applicable.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex database, application, infrastructure, connectivity, and data-performance issues.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain database architecture, technical risks, and solution options to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to prioritize workload, manage time effectively, meet deadlines, and contribute successfully to multiple concurrent projects.
• Strong attention to detail to ensure database availability, data integrity, system stability, security, and compliance.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a cross-functional team and collaborate with application developers, system administrators, cloud engineers, and technical stakeholders.
• Strong technical-documentation skills, including the ability to create and maintain database configurations, architecture diagrams, procedures, operating manuals, and support runbooks.
• Commitment to staying current with emerging database-management, cloud-service, security, and automation technologies.
• U.S. Citizenship is required, along with the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance.

Requirements

• Experience supporting Edifecs platforms, healthcare EDI applications, payer systems, or related healthcare technology environments.
• Experience supporting VA, Department of Defense, or other Federal government database environments.
• Advanced technical certifications, including one or more of the following:
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate
• Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
• AWS Certified Database – Specialty
• Edifecs certification.
• Experience supporting databases in cloud-hosted environments, including automated backups, snapshots, scaling, replication, and read-replica architectures.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices, CI/CD processes, infrastructure automation, database change management, and release-management procedures.
• Experience with high-availability database architectures, enterprise disaster-recovery planning, and compliance-driven data-management operations.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
• A minimum of five years of progressively responsible database-administration experience, preferably including Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server administration.
• Demonstrated experience with database architecture, performance tuning, backup and recovery, database security, and operational support.
• Equivalent practical experience may be considered in lieu of formal education, as appropriate.
• Advanced cloud, database, and Edifecs certifications are preferred.

How to apply

Apply here with your updated resume, or send it to [email protected] with the job title in the subject line.