SteerBridge
Senior Database Administrator
$125K–$175K
Vienna, VA · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years of hands-on database administration experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
About the job
Administers production Oracle and Sybase databases and AWS data services for USMC aviation maintenance systems, while leading DBA operations and supporting cloud modernization and compliance.
What you'll do
- Administer and troubleshoot Oracle and Sybase ASE databases and AWS data services, including performance, security, backup, and recovery.
- Lead the DBA support rotation, coordinate coverage, resolve escalated incidents, and mentor three Mid-Level Database Administrators.
- Support database migration to AWS, DoD/GovCloud compliance, and operational documentation.
What they ask for
- U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance or higher.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Hands-on production database administration of both Oracle and Sybase ASE; working experience with AWS Glue, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon ECS, and AWS Fargate.
- Experience in DoD, federal, or other GovCloud environments; skills in database performance tuning, replication, backup, disaster recovery, Linux/Unix, SQL, and shell scripting.
Nice to have
- NOC, help desk, or 24/7 production support experience; ServiceNow, Jira Service Management, or similar, and ITIL incident management.
- USMC or DoD aviation systems, AWS DMS, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, CI/CD, Docker, or Keycloak administration experience.
Pay
USD 125,000–175,000 per-year-salary; base salary
Tools
Oracle, Sybase ASE, AWS Glue, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon ECS, AWS Fargate, Linux/Unix
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