Database Administrator - TS/SCI with Polygraph

About the role

Your impact: Support national defense by maintaining and enhancing enterprise-grade database services that enable critical applications across multiple environments. Strengthen continuity and drive innovation.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, and optimize enterprise SQL Server clustered platforms and standalone databases, ensuring availability, performance, and reliability.
• Manage backup/restore, replication, disaster recovery, failover testing, and recovery operations for high availability database services.
• Maintain database capacity, performance metrics, licensing, service levels, and health; provide monthly analysis and recommendations.
• Perform database migrations, upgrades, lifecycle management, consolidation, and integration of new requirements into DBaaS environments.
• Provide database access management, permissions, and controlled elevation for application owners and administrators.
• Troubleshoot SQL related issues across infrastructure, application, and storage layers; deliver technical guidance to application teams.
• Create and maintain database documentation, configuration baselines, SOPs, and security relevant artifacts supporting accreditation and compliance.
• Evaluate and test new SQL Server releases, backup/recovery platforms, replication technologies, and database tooling for enterprise adoption.
• Apply SQL Server, OS level, and database platform security patches within required timelines using approved tools and automated deployment processes; maintain configuration and vulnerability compliance.
• Identify and remediate noncompliant database systems; analyze root causes, verify POA&M actions, and provide security status updates and metrics.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in an IT-related field or 10+ years of relevant IT experience in lieu of a degree.
• Certification: Meet DoD 8140 Information Assurance Workforce certification requirements (e.g., Security+ CE, etc.).
• Clearance: Active TS/SCI clearance with a favorable polygraph.
• Experience: 8 + years of related experience.
• US Citizenship: Required.