Job Description
The Digital Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for a Database Administrator to support the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Office of Information & Technology (OIT). In this contract, Leidos assists with the underlying infrastructure, tools, and operational services used to build, deploy, secure, and run VA health applications.
The Database Administrator will play a key role in designing, implementing, and managing enterprise database environments that deliver high performance, availability, security, and scalability. This position provides technical expertise across AWS database platforms, including RDS, DocumentDB, and MongoDB, while supporting database optimization, backup and recovery, replication, high-availability architectures, and disaster recovery solutions. Working closely with cross-functional technical teams, the Database Administrator helps ensure reliable, resilient, and compliant database operations that support critical healthcare technology initiatives.
Primary Responsibilities
The selected candidate will:
- Design, implement, and manage enterprise database administration programs supporting business applications, data services, and organizational requirements.
- Administer and maintain database environments, including AWS RDS, Amazon DocumentDB, MongoDB, and other database platforms, ensuring reliability, availability, and operational readiness.
- Monitor database health, performance, availability, and storage utilization; analyze trends and implement optimization strategies, including query tuning, resource optimization, and capacity management.
- Develop, maintain, and validate database backup, recovery, and snapshot processes, including scheduled backups (15-minute, daily, monthly, and long-term), retention policies, restoration testing, and recovery procedures aligned with SLA requirements.
- Implement and support database replication, high-availability, and disaster recovery solutions, including failover configurations, replication strategies, and recovery testing to meet recovery point objectives.
- Evaluate database criticality and architecture requirements to determine appropriate replication strategies, including multi-region versus single-region deployments based on availability needs, latency, consistency models, and cost considerations.
- Manage database snapshots, storage optimization, and lifecycle processes to ensure efficient resource utilization and prevent failures related to storage exhaustion or backup interruptions.
- Collaborate with Architecture, DevSecOps, and engineering teams on database configuration management, change control, security practices, and infrastructure improvements.
- Perform database platform maintenance activities, including version management, software upgrade planning, and monthly compliance reporting to identify and remediate unsupported or out-of-compliance database versions.
Basic Qualifications
Candidates should possess:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience administering production databases in AWS environments (e.g., RDS, DocumentDB, ElastiCache); candidates without a degree must have at least 9 years of relevant experience.
- Experience reviewing database performance trends and identifying opportunities for improvement.
- Experience supporting:
- AWS RDS
- DocumentDB
- MongoDB
- Database replication
- Backup and recovery operations
- Storage optimization
- Snapshot management
- High-availability database environments
- Experience designing and maintaining backup/snapshot schedules and retention policies for production databases.
- Experience supporting disaster recovery procedures with defined Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) targets.
- Experience monitoring database capacity and performance to prevent failures from storage exhaustion or backup interruptions.
- Experience supporting highly available production database environments with strict uptime/incident-free availability targets.
- The ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance.
- The ability to travel, as needed, to customer sites.
- Must have US Citizenship.
Preferred Qualifications
The ideal candidate will bring:
- Experience with multi-region database replication strategies and data consistency models.
- Experience across both relational and NoSQL platforms (e.g., MongoDB, DocumentDB) alongside streaming/analytics services (e.g., Kinesis, MSK, Athena).
- Experience evaluating cross-region data transfer costs and storage cost tradeoffs for replicated data.
- Familiarity with VA or other federal compliance requirements affecting data storage and recovery.
- Experience supporting or contributing to software version posture reporting for database platforms.
HAPS
If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.
Original Posting:July 30, 2026For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- Minimum of 5 years administering production databases in AWS environments (RDS, DocumentDB, ElastiCache); OR 9 years relevant experience if no degree
- Experience reviewing database performance trends and identifying improvements (query tuning, capacity management)
- Experience supporting AWS RDS
- Experience supporting Amazon DocumentDB
- Experience supporting MongoDB
- Experience with database replication and high-availability configurations
- Experience with backup and recovery operations, snapshot management, and retention policies
- Experience with storage optimization and managing database storage lifecycle
- Experience designing and maintaining backup/snapshot schedules and retention policies for production databases
- Experience supporting disaster recovery procedures with defined RTO and RPO targets
- Experience monitoring database capacity and performance to prevent storage exhaustion or backup interruptions
- Experience supporting highly available production database environments with strict uptime requirements
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance
- Ability to travel to customer sites as needed
- Must have US Citizenship
- Experience with multi-region replication strategies and data consistency models
- Experience across relational and NoSQL platforms plus streaming/analytics services (e.g., Kinesis, MSK, Athena)
- Experience evaluating cross-region data transfer and storage cost tradeoffs for replicated data
- Familiarity with VA or other federal compliance requirements affecting data storage and recovery
- Experience supporting or contributing to software version posture reporting for database platforms
Leidos Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Leidos and has not been reviewed or approved by Leidos.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, with multiple plan options, low office-visit copays in some plans, and access to mental health and wellness support tools. The availability of HSA/FSA options and employer contributions is positioned as a meaningful part of the total package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are framed as a strong component of total rewards, highlighted by a 401(k) match and immediate vesting in the standard package. The Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also presented as an additional long-term wealth-building feature.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle supports extend beyond core insurance, including wellness programs, fitness-related stipends, and assistance resources. Work flexibility and related perks are also included as part of the broader rewards experience.
Leidos Insights
What We Do
We Are Leidos For 50 years we have been tackling some of the biggest problems that face our nation and our world. OUR MISSION Through our culture of innovation and history of performance, we develop deep customer trust built on integrity and create enduring solutions that improve our world. Leidos is a science and technology solutions leader working to address some of the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and healthcare markets. The company’s 43,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $11.09 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2020. Leidos was cited for the meaningful work employees perform that is challenging, impactful, and aligned with our customers’ missions as reasons professionals want to work and stay at our company. Leidos has also been named to lists including Forbes’ Best Employers for Diversity, Forbes’ America’s Best Employers for Women, Military Times Best for Vets Employers, and Ethisphere Institute’s World's Most Ethical Companies®. Employees enjoy career enrichment opportunities available through mobility and development and experience rewarding relationships with supportive supervisors and talented colleagues and customers. Employees appreciate our flexible work environment, allowing for and encouraging a true work-life balance. Our professionals are also excited about our Employee Resource Groups, like the newly launched Collaborative Outreach with Remote and Embedded Employees (CORE), which strives to create an environment where every employee, regardless of location, feels fully engaged as a valued employee of Leidos. Your most important work is ahead.
