What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior SQL Database Administrator position at Reflexive Concepts?
Reflexive Concepts is seeking a skilled Senior SQL Database Administrator!
- Augment an existing team providing Life Cycle Sustainment (LCS) activities for commercial and custom-developed education, learning, and training applications. This is a self-motivated role on a fast-paced team, requiring a willingness to take on challenges in a collaborative environment.
- Perform database patching and vulnerability remediation in alignment with IAVA requirements, including compliance reporting across enterprise database systems.
- Maintain and administer Microsoft SQL Server environments (various versions) across on-premises and cloud-based infrastructures.
- Provide troubleshooting, maintenance, and operational support for database systems, including performance tuning, query optimization, and issue resolution.
- Execute database patching, upgrades, backups, restores, and routine maintenance to ensure data integrity, availability, and system reliability.
- Implement and manage database security, including user access controls, roles, permissions, and encryption standards.
- Utilize T-SQL and PowerShell scripting to automate database administration, monitoring, and reporting tasks.
- Leverage AWS services, including RDS, EC2, Lambda, and CloudFormation, to deploy, manage, and optimize cloud-hosted database solutions.
- Support infrastructure-as-code initiatives using Ansible and Terraform for database provisioning, configuration management, and automation.
- Develop and maintain database automation scripts and monitoring tools to streamline operations and improve performance and uptime.
- Active TS/SCI with Polygraph.
- A bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline and ten (10) years of experience as a DBA. Fourteen (14) years of experience as a DBA may be substituted in lieu of a degree.
- Proficiency in managing SQL Server databases.
- Must be able to work during core hours of M–F 10am–2pm. Exceptions will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
- DoD 8570 compliance with Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level I.
- Experience with the PowerShell scripting language.
- Experience in SharePoint migrations.
- Ability to clearly communicate ambiguous or highly complex concepts to all audiences.