Centuria Corporation Norfolk , VA 23510
Posted 2 months ago
Job Title: Database Administrator
Location: USFF Norfolk, Virginia at a Government facility/site
Clearance: Secret
Program: HQ IT Support Contract
Company/ Program Description:
Centuria, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), has been delivering IT, Engineering, and Scientific solutions to the Federal Government since 2002. During our two decades of service, we have earned the trust and respect of our government clients for the simple reason that we have great people who are experts in their fields and take pride and ownership in everything they do.
EXAMPLE PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: This role will be supporting the U.S. Fleet Forces Command (USFF) Headquarters (HQ) at USFF Norfolk, Virginia at a Government facility/site. As a member of their USFF Communications and Information Systems Division (N6) Support Team, you will significantly contribute to Navy Fleet Readiness and Homeland Security. The team is involved in information technology (IT) support tasks including but are not limited to Program Management support, Network Engineering support, Maritime Operations Center/Tactical Systems support, Video Teleconferencing and Audio/Visual support, Portal Management and Application Development support, Staff IT Business Process/IT Services support, Satellite Communications Planning support, Information Assurance (IA)/Certification and Accreditation support, Database Administration support, Communications Security/EKMS support, and general IT support, as well as maintenance, updating and enhancement of developed application/software.
Job Responsibilities:
Manage and maintain all required security level/posture of all MS SQL Servers.
Servers must be IA compliant to the latest policies and standards (i.e. STIG, IAVA, etc.)
Document and generate report on all changes applied to MS SQL Servers.
Provide assistance in the processing and submission of C&A for MS SQL Servers.
Provide recommendation on industry best practices in the use of MS SQL Server and upcoming trends in database design implementation and sustainment.
Manage and maintain all MS SQL services to ensure that they are always at peak performance (greater than 99.99%).
Improve slow performing database(s) and/or code(s) to attain their peak performance throughout the life cycle of the database.
Must ensure that all Transact-SQL code is bug free and executes effectively and efficiently. Develop and maintain Analysis Services (such as DAX, OLAP/MOLAP), SQL Reporting Services, Data Transformation Services packages, Business Intelligence, Availability Groups, Clustering, and SQL Agent jobs. These items must be responsive and optimized to execute close to 99.99% efficiency.
Manage and maintain all database backup and recovery. There must not be any loss of any data (in part or in whole). Provide effective and quality training and/or assistance to data analysts, coders/programmers (including pre-production co reviews), data modelers, managers, and users.
Perform auditing, base lining/enhancing/optimizing/tuning (especially index tuning and custom statistics), monitoring and troubleshooting.
Report to government lead about system conditions, failures and future needs.
Plan configuration changes, future workloads, and future system resources that are aligned to government mission
Support monthly ASIs and emergent outages.
Develop POAM for all projects and tasks. In case of malfunctions, immediately report to government lead all issues and provide appropriate resolution or mitigation and associated documentation.
Attend meetings either physical or virtual. Oversee and influence cloud service providers in infrastructure management and maintenance. Tasks may also include cloud infrastructure data migration, database application analysis and design, optimization testing, support and management of cloud infrastructure.
Configure and perform daily backup and perform monthly restores to confirm backups
Align SQL databases and servers with DOD ZeroTrust policy and architecture standards
Participates in requirements gatherings and meetings.
Plan, coordinate, and support migration effort according to changing technologies
Job Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering or Associate Degree in Computer Science with additional 2-year experiences
Minimum 8 years of experience as DBA in Microsoft SQL Server.
Minimum 8 years of in-depth knowledge and experience in database theory and design.
Minimum 8 years of in-depth experience in planning, implementing, administering and programming Microsoft SQL
Minimum 4 years of in-depth knowledge and experience of Windows O/S, distributed computing architecture (client networking, storage area network (SAN), and Virtualization (Hyper-V and VMware).
Experience in Microsoft .NET programming (C# or VB.NET)
Minimum six years of in-depth knowledge and experience in Transact SQL and PowerShell.
Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert: Data Platform or Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert: Data Management and A MCSE certification must be one of the current published paths by Microsoft with emphasis on the platform or system supported in this PWS.
Must have an active secret clearance
Centuria Corporation