[Hiring] Senior Database Administrator @DecisionPoint

Role Description

DecisionPoint seeks a Senior Database Administrator to provide enterprise-wide leadership of database operations supporting a major federal and DoD-aligned mission environment. This role oversees secure hosting of IL5-compliant database platforms, ensuring optimal performance, schema governance, RMF control alignment, and full integration with the SDLC, DevSecOps, and application development teams.

The Senior DBA is responsible for:

• Database engineering
• Performance tuning
• Replication
• Failover strategies
• Backup and recovery
• Vulnerability remediation

This role ensures the reliability, resilience, and security of mission-critical data systems across multiple environments. This position is fully remote.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide senior-level leadership over database operations, engineering, and administration in IL5 cloud and on-premise environments.
• Oversee schema governance, indexing strategies, data modeling, and optimization for performance and scalability.
• Ensure database platforms comply with DoD security requirements, RMF controls, STIG baselines, and audit readiness.
• Lead performance tuning efforts, query optimization, and troubleshooting of complex database issues.
• Manage backup, recovery, replication, clustering, and failover strategies to support high availability.
• Coordinate with DevSecOps engineers on database integration within CI/CD pipelines.
• Support secure SDLC processes, including database change control and release planning.
• Manage database access controls, permissions, service accounts, and privileged user oversight.
• Oversee vulnerability scanning, patch planning, and remediation for database technologies.
• Collaborate with application developers to align database design with business logic, data workflows, and mission requirements.
• Maintain database documentation, ER diagrams, configuration baselines, and operational runbooks.
• Lead and mentor a team of DBAs, ensuring adherence to best practices, consistent processes, and high operational readiness.
• Provide technical input to modernization initiatives, cloud migration strategies, and new platform evaluations.

Qualifications

• Must hold an active Top Secret clearance, supported by a Tier 5 background investigation.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in database administration, engineering, or architecture roles.
• Demonstrated leadership in managing enterprise-class database systems in secure federal or DoD environments.
• Experience implementing IL5 database security controls, RMF requirements, and STIG compliance.
• Experience supporting SDLC integration, release cycles, and DevSecOps workflows.
• Experience with performance tuning, complex queries, indexing, and database optimization.
• Experience managing replication, clustering, failover, and backup/recovery operations.
• Strong expertise with relational database systems (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL).
• Proficiency in database security, encryption, auditing, and privileged access management.
• Knowledge of RMF, STIGs, IL5 cloud security controls, and DoD cybersecurity requirements.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automation tools, and DevSecOps concepts.
• Experience with database monitoring tools, log analysis, and performance analytics.
• CompTIA Security+ certification required.

Skills

• Strong leadership skills with the ability to manage and mentor technical teams.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, especially for complex data and performance issues.
• Clear communication skills for working with developers, security teams, and federal stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail with disciplined documentation and configuration management practices.
• Ability to manage priorities across multiple environments in a mission-critical setting.