AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal government contractor supporting national priority programs through our strategic solutions in the areas of Information Technology, Test & Evaluation, Engineering & Analysis, and Training. Must be able to work in Mechanicsburg, PA 2x per week.
ResponsibilitiesAs a Postgres Database Administrator with AMERICAN SYSTEMS you will have the opportunity to do the following: Provide Subject Matter Expert (SME) support for Oracle and PostgreSQL in a traditional on-premise VMware environment and an AWS Cloud environment.
- Provide PostgreSQL database management and life cycle support for a collaborative engineering tools environment.
- Implement the conversion of existing databases to meet new release requirements.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of database management technology and investigates problems and inefficiencies in a well-established data base environment.
- Determine the impact of new or revised software on system operations and applications.
- Investigate factors such as amount of storage space consumed, access times, frequencies of reads and writes, and problems encountered by other application and systems programmers using the DBMS software.
- Evaluate and determines alternatives, and initiates corrective action to recover/restore data and return system back to normal operations.
- Administer day-to-day database operation and maintenance in an environment in which the system software is typically available from vendors and widely used.
- Ensure the database efficiently collects, stores, and processes data.
- Run utility routines/programs and investigate when reports indicate a decline in computer performance.
- Develop and maintain security procedures to guard against unauthorized intrusion into databases.
- Develop procedures and recommend methods to insure rapid access to all data.
- Analyze use of archived data and develop ways to insure optimum use of existing systems.
- Provide assistance to programmers/analysts in program development, testing, and implementation of modified programs.
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Qualifications- Must have or be able to obtain a Secret Clearance.
- Must be able to work in Mechanicsburg, PA 2 times per week.
- Experience with Postgres and Oracle.
- COMPTIA Security + required
- 4+ years of overall professional experience.
Skills Required
- Ability to obtain a Secret security clearance
- Ability to work in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, two times per week
- Experience with PostgreSQL
- Experience with Oracle
- CompTIA Security+ certification
- At least four years of overall professional experience
What We Do
AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned government services contractor that delivers professional, technical, information technology, engineering, analysis, testing, evaluation, and training solutions for complex national-priority programs. Based in McLean, Virginia, the company supports federal customers—particularly defense and other Department of Defense missions—with mission-essential and information engineering, digital engineering, systems integration, cybersecurity, cloud, data, and lifecycle IT services across critical public-sector environments.
