Company Overview:Macalogic is a company with broad competencies focused on bringing practical technology solutions to complex problems. We are an SBA-certified Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) and an Economically Disadvantaged Woman-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB). We provide business consulting services to government clients in four primary areas: software development and IT-related consulting; program support; federal enterprise architecture; and compliance. In the commercial, Business-to-Business (B2B) arena, we provide management support services, including hardware, software, and network installation, troubleshooting, and management.Our core values of Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Excellence are central to everything we do at Macalogic. As such, we are always open to self-motivated and responsible team players who are focused on contributing to the success of our clients. We offer a generous benefits package and compensation commensurate with your experience and skillset. 

General Description

The successful candidate will perform as a database administrator, providing support and expertise to the Air Force Human Resources (HR) division in San Antonio, TX, This program includes providing software development, architecture, and development standards expertise as well as evaluating new technologies and leading teams through the design, development, test, and deployment of software updated to existing HR systems. This requires the candidate to support data modeling and database updates based on functionality updates, investigation into system outages, data refreshes, security patches, software and hardware updates, functional enhancements, programming, testing, training, and document development. Responsibilities further include assisting with the performance of data analysis and evaluation, data migration, performing data cleansing activities, performing data migration, and monitoring production database performance.

Duties and responsibilities

The successful candidate will participate in the design, creation, and maintenance of computerized databases. The candidate will support the execution of quality control and auditing of databases to ensure accurate and appropriate use of data. They will work with management to develop database strategies to support organization requirements; consult with and advise users on access to various databases; work directly with users to resolve data conflicts and inappropriate data usage; perform the maintenance and use of the corporate data dictionary; provide second-tier support to end-users for database applications; and handle problems that the first-tier of help desk support is unable to resolve. The candidate may interact with network services, software systems engineering, and/or applications development to restore service and/or identify and correct core problems.

Specialized Knowledge

• Perform as an Oracle Database Administrator
• Perform installs, upgrades, security patches, security STIGs, backup and recovery, data migration, coding, and make use of Data Guard
• Maintain a contingency site with a physical standby database using Data Guard. Support contingency site switchover for maintenance and yearly contingency test.
• Create templates for database and application server software installs used for new hardware moves to reduce install time and drive consistency between database and application server zones.
• Perform database log monitoring/backup, script and database maintenance, database security, development of database code, and database patching.
• Assist developers of data exposure services

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, management information systems, or related field.

Professional Certifications

CompTIA Security is required.
 Oracle Database Certified Professional (OCP), and Oracle Database Certified Associate (OCA) are preferred but not required.

Clearance

None required. However, must be able to obtain a favorable adjudication of a NAC-I investigation.

Experience

10 years of senior database administrator experience focused on database management, system maintenance (patching, etc.), data migration strategy development and execution, and data cleansing tasks.

U.S. Citizen or Similar

Must be a U.S. Citizen

Skills and Abilities

Experience with database management of Oracle databases

Other Characteristics (e.g., Personal or Language)

Excellent oral, written, and communication in English. Must be able to work in a team environment with members that include personnel from other companies, Government program management and administrative personnel, and technical staff members.

Working conditions, including location

Remote

Client duty hours are Monday through Friday.