Database Administrator - Senior Level

As one of the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT providers, we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our 22,000 employees “Do The Can’t Be Done”, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.

Peraton’s National Programs Business Intelligence Systems & Applications Operating Unit has a need for an experienced Database Administrator to support its SITE III DO contract charged with the orchestration, sustainment, and evolution of a portfolio of mission critical applications and services supporting a major Directorate within the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). The SITE III DO contract is designed to establish and ensure a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National apparatus of Defense Intelligence, Combatant Commands, supporting Partner Nations and other Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate Human Intelligence (HUMINT) collection, correlation and dissemination.  Our support team applies best practices in architecture design, data science, cloud services, DevSecOps and platform integration to develop, sustain and continually evolve the global U.S. human intelligence apparatus and supporting partners.

What you'll do:

The Database Administrator - Senior will be responsible maintaining the integrity, security and availability of multiple database(s) in addition to following but not limited to:

• Disaster recovery, performance analysis and tuning, index maintenance, and monitoring of data.
• Administer, maintain, develop, and implement policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of the database.
• Evaluate and recommend available database management system (DBMS) products.
• Perform database and software life-cycle activities to ensure highest level of system performance and availability and compliance with business requirements.
• Perform Oracle, PostgreSQL, and other DBMS Database and Application server administration.
• Organize and formats data for efficient query and storage processes.

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and participation in an attractive bonus plan.

Required

• Requires Bachelor's degree in related field of study with 10 or more years of experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• 10 to 12 years with BS/BA or 8 to 10 years with MS/MA or 5 to 7 years with PhD
• TS/SCI with ability to pass a polygraph
• Security+ or other IAT II/III level certification that is currently active
• Extensive experience with Oracle or PostgreSQL
• SQL, PL/SQL or PL/pgSQL
• Performing patching, backups, disaster recovery, performance tuning
• Cloud (RDS, Aurora)
• Installation, STIG hardening
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Full-time work in a SCIF is required, but hours are flexible

Desired

• Security+ or other IAT II/III level certification that is currently active
• ArcGIS automation and modeling
• Experience with SAFEHOUSE web GIS platform
• Active TS/SCI w/Poly

Peraton drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our employees do the can’t be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.