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Position Overview: We’re hiring a Senior Database Administrator / Programmer to support an IT Service Management effort for USTRANSCOM at Scott Air Force Base located near O’Fallon, IL. This position is critical to support the USTC Command, Control, Communications & Cyber Systems Directorate. In this role, you will provide life-cycle support for database environment to include database administration, maintenance, and optimization support for office information business applications.
Location: On-site at Scott Air Force Base
Pay & Benefits:
- $45-50/hr
- Full Benefits package! - Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K
- Educational / professional development reimbursement options
- Relocation assistance options
Position Responsibilities:
- Designing, installing, configuring, and day-to-day troubleshooting and performance monitoring of Database Management Systems (DBMS) and databases
- Ensuring database administration support satisfies or exceeds established SLA and OLA agreements with the customer
- Evaluating the existing Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) and any other identified software to determine its ability to continue to support customer requirements and provide recommendations
- Working closely with the Tier III (Engineering support) to document a strategy, develop a plan, and implement and maintain a more robust database-managed environment, in line with industry best practices
- Providing technical problem solving for customer computer support of database applications, troubleshoot issues with existing or developed systems; work with the appropriate resources to resolve them
- Developing database interfaces to other agency databases
- Monitoring and tuning the database environment on a regular basis to identify bottlenecks, capacity issues, operating system, and database software-configuration issues, and remedy them
- Implementing all relevant security patches and other directed security measures for Database Management systems (DBMSs)
- Researching and resolving security issues
- Utilizing SQL, and programming languages such as HTML and XML other shell scripting to create and modify database structures, and automate processes
- Supporting testing of database applications to ensure functionality
- Developing, implementing, and periodically testing backup, recovery, and restoration plans for databases
- Ensuring data replication between different sites (primary and alternate) is kept current and meets documented service levels
- Keeping DBMS releases of the production and alternate site systems in sync and ready for operations.
- Back-up systems, application software, Web content, and databases on a continuing basis and maintain off-site storage at a Government facility
- Maintaining system documentation per Change and Configuration Management policy and procedures
- Providing recurring and adhoc reporting of database management systems status and other reports