What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Database Administrator - DAFFM position at Chameleon Integrated Services?
We are a growing information technology company that offers its employees a culture of success, the chance to work on revolutionary federal IT infrastructure, and the opportunity to grow alongside cutting-edge technology that is reshaping the industry. We are seeking forward thinking candidates that have strong experience in operational support and can help take to the next level in a pro-active stance.
Chameleon Integrated Services has expertise in operations management, quality systems, data operations and cybersecurity. We secure some of the most sensitive data for the Department of Defense and for other U. S. federal government agencies. We are known for the great care we take with clients and employees, and we believe in promoting from within.
We offer a Full Benefits package including:
- Competitive Employee Health Insurance options including dental
- 100% company paid vision plan
- 401K plan with generous company match and no vesting period
- 100% company paid Life insurance
- 100% company paid long and short-term disability insurance
- Training allowance
- PTO and more
SENIOR DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR
Position mission: Provide full DB2 database engineering and administration for FMWorkFlow, including performance, integrity, recovery, resilience, and integration with WebSphere and the supporting infrastructure.
Duties:
- Administer production and nonproduction DB2 environments.
- Design and maintain database schemas.
- Conduct database performance analysis and capacity planning.
- Tune database performance and optimize queries.
- Diagnose database degradation, failures, locking, connectivity, and cross-stack issues.
- Protect data integrity and reconcile identified exceptions.
- Engineer and validate backup, restoration, and recovery activities.
- Support resilience and COOP planning.
- Maintain controlled database configurations in development and test environments.
- Manage test data consistent with security and sensitivity requirements.
- Coordinate DB2 integration with WebSphere middleware and the supporting Windows/Linux and virtual infrastructure.
- Support patching, updates, corrective maintenance, and system modifications.
- Validate database performance and data integrity after changes.
- Maintain database configuration, recovery, test, and operating documentation.
- Provide advanced technical escalation for database-related incidents.
Required candidate qualifications
- Direct DB2 administration is required. General SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or MySQL experience alone does not demonstrate the required capability.
- Demonstrate work involving WebSphere integration or comparable direct troubleshooting of the DB2-to-WebSphere stack. WebSphere familiarity without DB2 administration is not.
Additional Requirements to demonstrate:
- DB2 versions and operating environments personally administered.
- Schema-design responsibilities.
- Performance-tuning and query-optimization examples.
- Backup, restoration, recovery, failover, or resilience work.
- Data-integrity incidents or reconciliation activities personally resolved.
- WebSphere connectivity or cross-stack troubleshooting.
- Development/test database administration and test-data handling.
Access requirement
The position is likely to require privileged or root-level system access. The candidate must be able to obtain the favorable trustworthiness determination based on an SSBI when required for the assigned access.
Anticipated start: September 28, 2026
Primary work location: Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota. Occasional work at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.
Project Length: Up to 4.5 years
“We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status”
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