Database Administrator- Production Support

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

Job Family:

·        At least seven (7+) years of Server database maintenance and database analysis or similar role.

·        Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Programming, Computer Engineering or relevant computer-based major. Experience may be considered in lieu of degree.

·        Experience supporting production database systems, including shift-based coverage and on‑call responsibilities.

·        Database or cloud certification preferred such as AWS Certified Database – Specialty, AWS Solutions Architect Associate/Professional, or equivalent industry‑recognized cloud/database certification.

·        Proficient experience with AWS database technologies such as Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and other AWS-managed data services.

·        Experience with Databricks

·        Experienced with completing database environment installation, configuration, on-going administration support.

·        Demonstrated understanding of standard Data warehouse concepts.

·        Adept with data modeling, data mapping, data flow diagrams and data marts.

·        Previous experience architecting and implementing cloud-based database solutions on various platforms.

·        Experience with Data migration from legacy on-premises database to multi-cloud/hybrid cloud platforms.  

·        Proven ability to spearhead and work independently, prioritize, and get things done.

·        Strong analytical, technical, problem-solving skills.

·        Excellent organization and time management skills and ability to identify priorities to accomplish a variety of tasks on schedule.

·        Excellent written and oral communication skills and ability to work with people at every level. Comfortable writing down ideas, implementation plans and status reports.

·        Experience creating and managing database reports, visualizations, and dashboards.

·        Knowledge of court operations and law enforcement business data.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

Job Description:

GDIT has an opportunity for a dynamic and talented candidate to join our team supporting the Administrative Office of the US Courts (AOUSC).

·        Provides production support for mission‑critical database environments, including shift‑based coverage and on‑call support to ensure high availability and timely issue resolution.

·        Monitors database performance, responds to incidents, troubleshoots production issues, and coordinates with development and operations teams to restore service quickly.

·        Performs root‑cause analysis for production defects and contributes to long‑term stability improvements.

·        Works within an Agile solution development environment with daily scrums, biweekly sprint planning and quarterly Program Increment planning.

·        Develops operating standards and best practices, including performance, security, scalability, and maintainability.

·        Ensures the proper definition, control, and coordination of data elements and standards, and the facilitation of efficient data relationships, systems integration, and physical structure.

·        Participates in the development and implementation of database management policies and standards for efficient quality control and data administration.

·        Collaborates with Product Owners and users to gather business requirements and define and maps them to technical requirements. Meets with agency leaders and stakeholders, collaborating with other consultants and program/agency personnel regarding the development of innovative data analysis techniques.

·        Demonstrates ability to document complex workflow designs to present to project team and stakeholders.

·        Demonstrates ability to work on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of multiple factors and frequently contributes to the development of new business strategy, ideas, and methods adhering to best practices within the Agile framework.

·        Collects, analyzes, and interprets large amounts of data to help guide business decisions. Experience with using advanced statistical analysis, data mining, and predictive modeling techniques. 

·        Synthesizes disparate information and recognizes patterns and relationships across data; synthesizes large sets of data from multiple sources, develops data visualizations for the purpose of tracking key performance indicators and other critical metrics tied to program outcomes.

·        Hosts and conducts peer reviews of the code of other developers on the team. Performs data validation and ensures data accuracy and integrity.

·        Develops stored procedures, jobs, views, tables, and other database objects in SQL Server Management Studio.

·        Designs and develops dimensional data models including start and snowflake schemas, fact and dimension tables, and enterprise data marts to support analytics, reporting and business intelligence solutions.

·        Develops and deploys ETL packages using CI/CD pipeline. Exposure to core configuration management systems for version control.  

·        Works with Atlassian Suite of software development management tools.

·        Indexes system and application logs in to the Splunk system monitoring application, then creates dashboards, alerts, and reports from those logs.

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