Full Time

Subject Matter Expert - DBA

Global Alliant Inc

Full-time

IT Services and IT Consulting

Washington, DC

$130,000 - $185,000* / year (about $63–$89 an hour)

Job Description

Subject Matter Expert 1 - DBA to support HHS OCSS

Up to $120,000/year on W2

General Guidelines

Fully remote ‘work from home’ role
Must be working from within the United States
Must be resident of the US for at least the last 3 years
Must be able to obtain and retain a Public Trust Clearance
Must not have worked on the OCSS Program at any time in the past

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education, with 8 years of relevant professional experience;
Advanced scripting expertise including bash and Python for database administration and CloudFormation for deployments.
Demonstrated experience with developing logical and physical data models, data/information exchange models, standards, or tools in a PostgreSQL database environment.
Extensive database administration experience with PostgreSQL running on Amazon RDS.
Database administration experience with one or more of MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle.
Experience in evaluating data architecture & data models and communicating recommendations to the program team.
Experience managing database replication and Change Data Capture (CDC) preferably in PostgreSQL using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS).
Solid understanding of High Availability and Resiliency architecture (Multi-AZ and Multi-Region deployment architecture)
Advanced experience in a Linux environment.
Experience in an AWS environment.
Strong verbal and written communications skills.
Experience with database security and compliance controls, including FISMA/FedRAMP requirements, encryption at rest and in transit (SSL/TLS), role-based access control (RBAC), and audit logging using pgAudit.
Advanced expertise with PostgreSQL query performance tuning, including use of EXPLAIN, index design and optimization, and autovacuum configuration.
Experience with version control (Git) and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline) for database deployments; familiarity with database migration tools such as Liquibase or Flyway.
Demonstrated performance leading IT services delivery and achieving service level agreements.
Strong focus on automation and documentation.

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