Top Remote Database Administrator Jobs

Lead Oracle database architecture, modernization, performance, reliability, security, automation, monitoring, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery. Provide escalation support, establish governance standards, guide migrations and cloud adoption, mentor engineers, support data initiatives, and manage technical relationships with a database services provider. The role includes root-cause analysis, capacity planning, SQL optimization, schema reviews, documentation, and shared on-call participation.

Owns the administration, optimization, scalability, monitoring, reliability, and architecture of PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Databricks environments. Responsibilities include performance tuning, schema configuration, observability, autoscaling, capacity planning, production troubleshooting, maintenance, high availability, disaster recovery, incident response, and data analysis support. The role designs resilient, cost-efficient data platforms at very high volumes and partners with engineering, analytics, and product teams.

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.

Administer enterprise database environments supporting high availability, replication, disaster recovery, security, performance, retention, and hybrid-cloud operations. Lead SQL Server infrastructure while supporting Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and NoSQL platforms. Design zero-downtime upgrades, migrations, failover testing, and modernization roadmaps. Develop automation using Terraform, Ansible, scripting, and CI/CD pipelines; establish operational standards; lead outage response; and mentor distributed operations teams.

Own the reliability, security, performance, and availability of cloud-based database and data warehouse platforms. Administer and optimize Microsoft SQL Server and Amazon Redshift, lead AWS data warehouse operations, design high-availability and disaster-recovery strategies, manage access controls and auditing, and drive automation and monitoring improvements. Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Analytics, and business leaders to support scalable, secure data systems and downstream analytics and AI use cases.

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.

Administer Oracle databases and Fusion Middleware across development, test, and production environments for a federal DOE program. Responsibilities include WebLogic, OID, OAM, SSO, database performance tuning, monitoring, patching, backup and recovery, cloud database administration, security remediation, disaster recovery, capacity planning, documentation, ATO/A&A support, and production break/fix. The role also supports data warehouses and evaluation of Oracle AI Database features.

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.

Administer and optimize Oracle databases across AWS RDS GovCloud and on-premises environments. Responsibilities include upgrades, patching, backup and recovery, performance monitoring, SQL and PL/SQL troubleshooting, database security, Linux and Windows administration, RMF and DISA STIG compliance, audit evidence, vulnerability remediation, release support, and technical documentation. The role requires customer communication, independent problem-solving, and occasional after-hours support and travel.

Leads enterprise database operations across IL5 cloud and on-premises environments supporting a federal and DoD mission. Responsibilities include database engineering, schema governance, performance tuning, security compliance, vulnerability remediation, backup and recovery, replication, clustering, and failover. The role integrates databases with SDLC, CI/CD, and DevSecOps workflows, supports cloud modernization, manages access controls and documentation, and leads a team of database administrators.

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.

Serve as the technical authority for enterprise SQL Server administration and database engineering. Manage configuration, upgrades, patching, performance, security, backups, disaster recovery, and high availability. Design schemas, optimize T-SQL, enforce data integrity, and establish retention policies. Lead incident root-cause analysis, database initiatives, documentation, and continuous improvement while collaborating with DevOps, infrastructure, engineering, QA, and product teams. Mentor developers and maintain highly available, secure, and recoverable production databases.

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.

Administers Informatica and MuleSoft data governance and quality platforms in AWS GovCloud production environments. Responsibilities include installation, configuration, integration, security, performance tuning, monitoring, backup and disaster recovery, testing, and sustainment. The role integrates enterprise data catalogs with Yellowbrick, PowerCenter, and ETL services; implements IAM and high-availability controls; supports RMF, ATO, STIG, and vulnerability remediation; and maintains automation, documentation, runbooks, and operational evidence. Provides incident response, root-cause analysis, vendor coordination, mentoring, and technical leadership.

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.

Manage the full lifecycle of Oracle databases across production, non-production, on-premises, and cloud environments. Responsibilities include RAC installation, upgrades, patching, backups, security controls, GoldenGate replication, Data Guard failover, container and pluggable database administration, scripting, documentation, and 24x7 on-call support. The role requires strong Oracle infrastructure expertise, Linux administration, cloud and Exadata experience, and collaboration with development and infrastructure teams.

Senior Database Administrator responsible for optimizing MySQL and AWS Aurora query performance, indexes, execution plans, stored procedures, and database architecture. Supports SQL Server and AWS RDS environments, cloud migrations, schema refactoring, data modeling, maintenance, backups, and operational tuning. Collaborates with developers and QA teams on database code reviews and mentors engineers on query optimization. The role requires extensive DBA experience, cloud database migration expertise, and strong relational data modeling skills.

Manage and optimize large-scale MySQL production environments, including highly available and disaster recovery architectures. Responsibilities include upgrades, patching, backup and recovery, performance tuning, capacity planning, cloud database support across Azure and AWS, infrastructure automation with Terraform and scripting, observability, incident response, root cause analysis, CI/CD collaboration, and on-call production support.

Manage and optimize highly available MySQL database platforms in large-scale production environments. Design disaster recovery and multi-region architectures, perform upgrades, backups, performance tuning, and capacity planning, and build automation using Terraform and scripting. Support Azure and AWS databases, monitoring, observability, incident response, and root cause analysis. Partner with engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, and security teams on reliability, CI/CD, cloud modernization, and self-service automation while participating in on-call support.

Leads administration, deployment, monitoring, optimization, troubleshooting, and modernization of SQL Server and AWS database infrastructure. Supports EC2-hosted and RDS SQL Server environments alongside Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, and S3 data lake services. Diagnoses performance issues, manages replication, backups, disaster recovery, security, and large databases, develops SQL and PowerShell automation, partners with engineering and development teams, documents processes, and participates in on-call support.

Manage MSSQL and PostgreSQL databases, including installation, configuration, monitoring, performance tuning, security, backup and recovery. Develop optimized SQL queries, stored procedures, triggers, and views. Use AWS services for database deployment and scaling, Git/GitHub for version control, and collaborate with developers and system administrators. Support data warehouse design, ETL processes, reporting requirements, and database troubleshooting.

Administer and support mission-critical Oracle EBS R12/R12.2 and Oracle Database environments across development through production. Responsibilities include installation, patching, cloning, upgrades, performance tuning, RMAN recovery, RAC/Data Guard high availability, security hardening, troubleshooting, integrations, OCI initiatives, documentation, and on-call production support.