Top Database Administrator Jobs

The Database Administrator will manage, optimize, and secure mission-critical databases, ensuring compliance with DoD standards and supporting data operations.

Maintain integrity, security, and availability of Oracle, SQL Server, and SYBASE databases. Perform tuning, monitoring, disaster recovery, index maintenance, security policy implementation, and migrations from on-prem Oracle to AWS RDS. Build environments using Oracle OEM Cloud Control and DataGuard and support database installation and administration tools.

The role involves database deployment, migration, performance optimization, and collaboration with development and DevOps teams to ensure reliable application releases.

Administer MySQL database instances and clusters, ensuring performance, availability, security, replication, and data integrity. Provision databases, manage upgrades, backups, recovery, and migrations, optimize resource usage and SQL queries, and develop tools to detect corruption. Collaborate with technical teams and stakeholders while preparing documentation and specifications.

Administer and troubleshoot production Microsoft SQL databases, including migration, architecture, monitoring, backup, restoration, and recovery. Respond to daily break/fix incidents, validate systems after migrations, perform updates, manage database access and security reviews, and maintain accurate project documentation. The role primarily supports SQL Server environments from versions 2008 through 2019, with occasional Oracle database responsibilities.

Supports Microsoft SQL Server environments across development, test, UAT, and production. Responsibilities include database installation, configuration, monitoring, performance tuning, security, backups, recovery, high availability, deployments, migrations, automation, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery. The role also supports SSIS, SSRS, ETL, reporting, data warehouses, cloud migration readiness, documentation, change management, and collaboration with technical, business, security, and vendor teams.

Lead audits and performance tuning of large SQL Server environments: analyze schemas, stored procedures, indexes, and query plans; refactor queries and procedures; resolve locks/deadlocks; implement indexing/partitioning; use SQL Profiler, Extended Events and DMVs; define database governance and coach developers on best practices.

The Database Administrator will manage and engineer Oracle databases, ensuring security and performance, while supporting database design, migration, and optimization activities, leveraging extensive experience in complex database environments and technologies.

Administer and sustain NALCOMIS OOMA/OIMA and NTCSS Virtual Environment systems supporting Navy aviation logistics. Responsibilities include server, operating system, application, database, and user-account administration; backups, recovery, troubleshooting, patching, cybersecurity remediation, system availability, documentation, remote support, and user training. The role requires extensive Navy aviation maintenance experience, active DoD Secret clearance, U.S. citizenship, and IAT Level II qualification.

Manage and optimize mission-critical SQL Server databases hosted on AWS EC2 for a high-availability trading application. Responsibilities include performance tuning, database administration, HA/DR implementation, backup and recovery, security and compliance, monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, and 24/7 on-call support. Collaborate with developers, DevOps, and architects on database changes, production deployments, documentation, and disaster recovery testing.

Maintain the Model Assessment Limitations Tracker and supporting documentation, update limitations and watch items, and support reporting requirements. Collaborate with requirements teams and Missile Defense System elements to develop simulation conceptual models and system requirements documents. Participate in technical interchange meetings, prepare reports and briefs, and apply systems engineering, modeling and simulation, technical writing, and defense systems expertise.

Leads enterprise database strategy, administration, optimization, high availability, disaster recovery, performance tuning, and modernization. Stabilizes on-premises systems and designs phased migrations to AWS, supporting RDS, relational, and NoSQL platforms. Advises architects and engineers on data architecture, builds CI/CD practices for database changes, ensures resilient 24x7 production operations, and mentors database professionals while influencing technical direction across multiple teams.

Owns the design, availability, performance, security, compliance, automation, and support of enterprise Oracle database platforms in IFS cloud and federal environments. Administers Oracle 19c+, RAC, Exadata, Data Guard, GoldenGate, backups, recovery, monitoring, patching, and performance tuning. Ensures FedRAMP and NIST compliance through hardening, audit evidence, vulnerability remediation, incident response, and continuous monitoring. Develops Bash automation, supports disaster recovery, collaborates across technical teams, and provides escalation support, training, and documentation.

Administer and optimize Oracle databases supporting defense stockpile management systems. Responsibilities include performance tuning, replication, recovery, patching, security and STIG implementation, schema and object creation, database modeling, troubleshooting, documentation, and collaboration with application development and support teams. The role requires Oracle Enterprise Edition expertise, Oracle Data Guard and Recovery Manager experience, Linux and Windows administration, SQL and PL/SQL proficiency, active Secret clearance, and eligibility for Top Secret clearance.

Designs, administers, secures, and optimizes hybrid Azure and on-premises database environments supporting NTIA. Responsibilities include managing Azure SQL Database, Managed Instance, and Cosmos DB; performance tuning; backup and disaster recovery; high availability; security and compliance; Azure monitoring; CI/CD automation; troubleshooting; standards development; and mentoring junior engineers.

Administer and optimize large-scale MySQL and other database clusters, including sharded and high-availability environments. Responsibilities include capacity planning, query and performance optimization, backup and recovery, monitoring, partitioning, ProxySQL administration, schema design support, benchmarking, and identifying database risks. The role supports terabyte- to petabyte-scale data systems and requires collaboration with developers throughout the application lifecycle.

Administer SQL databases and maintain accurate Crystal Reports and SSRS reporting. Investigate data discrepancies across reports, stored procedures, and source tables; optimize queries and database performance; manage backups, restores, indexing, integrity, security, and scalability. Collaborate with the existing DBA to document processes and preserve knowledge. Support audit-ready data solutions aligned with SOC 2, CMMC, and ISO 27001 requirements.

Maintain and support 100+ on-premise virtualized Microsoft SQL Server instances; install, configure, patch, upgrade and migrate databases; manage security, backups, jobs, performance tuning, capacity planning, and DR. Automate builds and tasks, develop queries/stored procedures/reports/ETLs, troubleshoot performance and participate in agile team development and on-call rotation.

Install, maintain, secure, and tune MS SQL Server databases (clustered/AlwaysOn). Manage access, standards, upgrades, SSRS reporting, automation, dashboards, and troubleshoot database issues. Recommend emerging database technologies.

Seeking a SQL DBA with strong scripting and tool development skills to support WebLogic/Apache environments. Requires 5+ years with Perl, Unix shell scripting, Java, JSP, HTML/CGI, JSON/webservices, and knowledge of Cloud/PaaS. Contract role based in San Jose, CA for 6+ months.

The position involves managing and developing operations for travel data applications, including building data pipelines, processing data, and maintaining data models. It requires providing ongoing support and development during the transition of travel data into new environments.

Design, implement, maintain, and optimize enterprise database environments across on‑prem and cloud. Perform installations, migrations, upgrades, performance tuning, capacity planning, backup/recovery and disaster recovery. Ensure database security, policy enforcement, integrations, and support hybrid cloud migrations. Troubleshoot complex issues and contribute to architecture and operational best practices.

Manage and secure enterprise Microsoft SQL Server environments on-premises and in AWS. Perform patching, backups, restores, tuning, automation, and vulnerability remediation. Build T-SQL and automation scripts, deploy using AWS services, support IaC (Ansible/Terraform), monitor performance, troubleshoot production incidents, and maintain compliance and documentation for a national security customer.

Supports and improves Pathward’s applications and infrastructure by performing technology analysis, design, testing, configuration, administration, troubleshooting, and operational support. Collaborates with stakeholders, evaluates emerging technologies, maintains documentation and standards, builds test data, ensures security compliance, identifies technology risks, and assists other IT teams with troubleshooting and support.

Administers Oracle and SQL Server databases across Linux and Windows environments. Installs, configures, upgrades, tunes, secures, and optimizes database platforms, including clustered and RAC environments. Develops PL/SQL and T-SQL scripts, manages backup and disaster recovery, applies data governance and access controls, resolves database incidents, and supports application development teams. Participates in on-call support, emergency outage response, project delivery, and knowledge sharing.