Database Administrator, Senior
Quick Summary
Education: BA/BS in Information Technology related field or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience.
Skills:Database Architecture, Database Management, Database Management Systems (DBMS),
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
Top Secret/SCIClearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
Top Secret SCI + PolygraphJob Family:
IT Infrastructure and OperationsRequirements
~1 min readJob Description:
Transform technology into opportunity as an Sr. Database Administrator/DBA with GDIT. A career in enterprise IT means connecting and enhancing the systems that matter most. At GDIT you’ll be at the forefront of innovation and play a meaningful part in improving how agencies operate.
At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As an Database Administrator DBA (Senior) you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. The scope of work includes a full range of information technology (IT) services which include necessary hardware, software, and ancillary, components to support enterprise-level programs and environments. Support service areas include program management support, policy, procedures, and operations support, IT core services support, security compliance, customer and client services support, transformational IT support, and application migration support.
Provides Database Management and Administration Support.
Responsible for administering enterprise database solutions, including SQL and No-SQL databases, for mission-critical databases.
Manages high availability and replication, storage cells, and database compute nodes as an integrated system.
Collaborates with the Availability and Capacity Manage to perform capacity planning and monitors databases for performance issues, responding to alerts from monitoring tools.
Collaborates with our Cybersecurity team on RMF activities, applying patches, upgrades, security updates, and incident response, adhering to the customers Incident Response Plan (IRP).
Collaborates with our DR/COOP and Contingency Planning team on creating, testing, and implementing DR plans.
Performs data modeling to design and maintain the database structure, develops and maintains technical specifications, and designs databases within the multi-tier application architecture.
Collaborates with application developers to address anomalies, maintain data quality, and ensure applications, interfaces, extensions, forms, and reports integrated seamlessly within the database architecture.
Creates and maintains detailed documentation, including implementation plans, SOPs, TTPs, and KBAs and stores them in our Definitive Media Library hosted in SharePoint.
Provides data engineering services, collaborating with our Transformational IT team and including mapping, standardization, migration, and transformation, including the evaluation and adoption of approved database management tools.
Collaborates with our Application Migration teams on database migrations, ensuring alignment with the customers application migration and strategic plan.
As part of our Continuous Improvement program, analyzes database applications for improvements, tuning, and optimization.
Education: BA/BS in Information Technology related field or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience.
Required Experience: 3+ years of related database administration experience
Certification Requirements: DoD 8570 related certs like CompTIA Security + CE
US Citizenship Required due to clearance requirement.
401K with company match
Comprehensive health and wellness packages
Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
Cutting-edge technology you can learn from and apply to solve real world problems
Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays
#GDITPRIORITY
#ARMA
The likely salary range for this position is $102,000 - $138,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40Work Location:
USA FL TampaAdditional Work Locations:
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- September 26, 2026
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- September 26, 2026
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