Top Remote Database Administrator Jobs

Designs and maintains ETL pipelines for IRS data warehousing using SQL, Python, shell scripting, Sybase IQ, and PostgreSQL. Applies statistical and machine learning methods to clean, analyze, and model large datasets. Responsibilities include data quality, pipeline optimization, troubleshooting, documentation, metadata management, stakeholder collaboration, and deployment in Linux, Windows, OpenShift, and Kubernetes environments.

Administer and support Oracle E-Business Suite environments across production, test, development, and disaster recovery systems. Manage Oracle 19c RAC, Data Guard, Exadata, upgrades, patching, backups, restores, cloning, migrations, monitoring, performance tuning, capacity planning, and high availability. Automate DBA tasks with Python, Shell, Perl, and Ansible while collaborating with functional, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams. Support mission-critical financial systems and participate in off-hours deployments and incident response.

Administer and optimize DB2 databases across production and test environments. Responsibilities include database design, performance tuning, upgrades, backups, disaster recovery, monitoring, troubleshooting, compliance, automation, documentation, application support, and on-call incident resolution. The role collaborates with development teams, mentors staff, supports testing and releases, and improves database availability, security, and operational standards.

Administers and secures Microsoft SQL Server databases, supports database-driven applications, and develops Power BI analytics solutions. Manages backups, recovery, performance, security, integrations, and production support. Administers the Alation data catalog and advances metadata management, data governance, stewardship, data quality, and literacy. Partners with business and technical stakeholders to gather requirements, improve processes, resolve complex issues, and deliver reliable, governed data services. Occasional after-hours work and travel may be required.

Maintains, secures, and optimizes cloud, managed, and on-premises databases. Builds and supports integrations across operational and enterprise systems, fulfills reporting and data-access requests, manages backup and recovery, tunes performance, and applies database security controls. Partners closely with nontechnical users across departments to understand workflows, document data definitions, improve self-service, and coordinate migrations to cloud services.

Designs, supports, and enhances relational database management systems for business applications. Consults with application owners, translates business requirements into database solutions, evaluates vendors and technologies, leads complex enhancements and production problem resolution, coordinates testing, manages project tasks, ensures regulatory and internal control compliance, and mentors less experienced staff. Provides technical guidance on performance, reliability, risk mitigation, and RDBMS strategy across multiple concurrent initiatives.

Supports SQL Server database administration across on-premises and Azure environments. Performs health checks, monitoring, troubleshooting, backup and recovery validation, database refreshes, migrations, access management, patching, maintenance, security controls, query and index analysis, and automation using T-SQL and PowerShell. Maintains documentation and operational records, collaborates with technical teams, participates in scheduled maintenance and on-call rotations, and escalates complex incidents to senior DBAs.

Owns enterprise-wide database design, security, reliability, performance, backups, disaster recovery, storage, patching, capacity planning, access controls, monitoring, and documentation. Partners with engineering teams across three divisions to standardize database practices, proactively resolve issues, and support production systems. Requires four or more years administering production relational databases and on-call support experience.

Administer and support SQL Server and cloud databases for VDOT’s tolling group. Responsibilities include monitoring uptime, troubleshooting connectivity and application issues, tuning SQL, installing and upgrading clustered SQL Server environments, patching and migrating databases, refining database processes, and supporting Azure or other cloud databases. The role also includes help desk and application support rotations, data modeling, scripting, documentation, and collaboration with engineering and operations teams.

Administers Informix, MySQL, and other databases across cloud and hybrid environments. Responsibilities include configuration, maintenance, performance tuning, security remediation, replication, monitoring, Tier 3 support, schema changes, migrations, SQL data extraction, backup recovery testing, automation, compliance, and collaboration with engineering, architecture, security, and application teams.

Provides production database administration and support for mission-critical environments, including performance monitoring, incident response, root-cause analysis, security, and availability. Develops SQL Server database objects, ETL pipelines, dimensional models, data marts, dashboards, and Splunk monitoring solutions. Designs cloud and hybrid database architectures, performs data migrations, validates data integrity, and collaborates with stakeholders on technical requirements and analytics solutions within an Agile environment.

Administers enterprise Oracle database environments across production and nonproduction platforms. Responsibilities include installation, patching, monitoring, performance tuning, capacity planning, backup and recovery, Data Guard, security administration, vulnerability remediation, and advanced incident troubleshooting. Collaborates with application, infrastructure, security, and database teams; supports projects, change management, recovery exercises, documentation, and after-hours escalations.

Provides production support and administration for mission-critical databases, including monitoring, incident response, root-cause analysis, performance optimization, and on-call coverage. Develops SQL database objects, Databricks lakehouse models, ETL pipelines, data migrations, dashboards, and data governance standards. Collaborates with stakeholders and development teams in an Agile environment while ensuring data integrity, scalability, security, and availability across AWS and hybrid-cloud platforms.

Administers IBM Db2 databases by installing, configuring, patching, monitoring, securing, backing up, recovering, and tuning database environments. Supports schema changes and deployments, manages disaster recovery procedures, maintains documentation and runbooks, and responds to database issues. The role requires Db2 experience on LUW or z/OS, SQL and shell scripting skills, and independent remote work capability.

Own the reliability, scalability, and administration of production Vitess/MySQL and Cassandra databases. Design highly available architectures, replication, backup, recovery, security, and disaster recovery strategies. Lead incident response, on-call operations, monitoring, SLO development, root cause analysis, and production readiness reviews. Automate database and infrastructure operations using scripting, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins. Establish runbooks, escalation procedures, training materials, and mentor junior database SREs while partnering across engineering and infrastructure teams.

Lead design, development, and administration of large Oracle 19c databases for ACES. Build and maintain schemas, PL/SQL objects, perform installation/patching, ensure security and STIG compliance, document designs, test QA, support interfacing applications, and mentor small technical teams while communicating status and issues across the organization.

Administer SQL Server and Azure SQL environments, including production operations, performance tuning, security, backups, migrations, upgrades, and troubleshooting. Support application development, database modeling, ETL, data warehouses, data marts, and Power BI environments. Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders, coordinate deployments, track issues, estimate work, and provide project updates while maintaining database availability and standards.

Provide frontline production support for Oracle, Sybase ASE, and AWS data systems in DoD and GovCloud environments. Monitor databases and pipelines, investigate alerts and tickets, resolve routine incidents, perform backups, patching, access provisioning, and health checks, and escalate complex issues. Troubleshoot applications, authentication, login, and basic NGINX issues while maintaining runbooks and incident documentation. The role requires rotating 24/7 support, including nights, weekends, and holidays.

Manage health and performance of product databases: schema design, permissions, backups/recovery, failover clustering, performance tuning, monitoring, incident response, and cross-team support for releases and customer issues. Participate in on-call rotation.

Administers and secures Oracle databases supporting DISA contract systems. Responsibilities include database installation, tuning, access management, outage response, disaster recovery, security patching, STIG compliance, scripting, release support, data modeling, legacy data migration, reconciliation, and system integration. The role also supports Appian data stores and coordinates database changes with DISA, hosting providers, ISSOs, and development teams.

Administer and support Oracle E-Business Suite R12 environments and multiple Oracle database instances. Responsibilities include backup and recovery, performance tuning, patching, monitoring, access control, security compliance, upgrades, migration to cloud environments, outage response, database configuration, and integration support. The role also supports Oracle RAC, SuperCluster, WebLogic, OEM, single sign-on architectures, testing, sustainment, and software development or migration efforts for a federal multi-agency program.

Administer and support enterprise Oracle databases, including configuration, troubleshooting, monitoring, capacity planning, backup and restore, patching, performance tuning, high availability, disaster recovery, and security compliance. Manage ServiceNow tickets and RFCs, troubleshoot application integrations, document procedures and system changes, produce support reports, and escalate complex incidents. The role also requires periodic after-hours maintenance support and collaboration across multi-platform database environments.

Administer and optimize Microsoft SQL Server environments across development, test, and production. Responsibilities include performance tuning, backup and recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, security, patching, automation, monitoring, capacity management, database deployments, and production support. The role partners with development, infrastructure, security, QA, and DevOps teams while supporting on-premises and cloud-hosted SQL Server platforms.

Leads enterprise database administration and reliability engineering across MySQL and other database platforms. Oversees database architecture, high availability, disaster recovery, upgrades, performance tuning, security, cloud modernization, automation, observability, incident response, and infrastructure as code. Provides technical strategy, mentors and manages database administrators, directs projects, supports releases, and partners with engineering, infrastructure, security, and DevOps teams to maintain resilient, scalable, mission-critical data services.

Manage the full lifecycle of Oracle databases across on-premises and cloud environments. Responsibilities include administration, availability, performance, backups, security, patching, upgrades, RAC, GoldenGate replication, Data Guard failover, Exadata and Azure support, scripting, documentation, and 24/7 on-call support.