Database/Web System Administrator - DARPA PSS

This position supports the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Program Security Services (PSS) task order. Anticipated award: February/March 2027. Anticipated start: March 2027. Period of performance: 1 base year + 4 option years. Location: Arlington, Virginia. This position is contingent upon contract award.

Active TS/SCI clearance adjudicated within the past five years is required.

About Us

Celestar, a B&A Company, offers highly competitive salaries and benefits. Our comprehensive benefits package includes company-paid employee and family dental insurance, employee health insurance, life insurance, and disability coverage. Additionally, we provide a 401(k)-retirement plan with company matching, paid holidays, and personal time off.

Responsibilities

• Develop conceptual database designs and prepare database requirements, standards, scripts, procedures, data dictionaries, and supporting documentation.
• Maintain, upgrade, troubleshoot, and support interconnectivity of the SID Security Control Suite (SCS) database.
• Coordinate with technical organizations on database hosting, support, patching, power, backups, and related infrastructure.
• Establish user requirements and monitor database access and security.
• Monitor database performance and optimize parameters for efficient front-end query performance.
• Maintain database integrity, security, storage efficiency, and performance.
• Refine logical and physical database designs and coordinate installation and testing of new DBMS versions.
• Participate in peer code reviews and technical meetings to ensure compliance with Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) requirements.
• Oversee requirements-gathering sessions and maintain internal data standards.
• Train users on applicable database systems.
• Develop and maintain data-entry audit processes.
• Coordinate maintenance and repair of databases, applications, systems, and networks.
• Maintain inventory and configuration control and ensure upgrades, archiving, maintenance, and testing are performed.
• Design, develop, test, and debug software and upgrades as required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field with 8 years of qualifying related experience or a Master’s degree in Computer Science or Information Systems may substitute for 4 years of experience.
• Recent experience performing applicable functions on a Federal Government contract or within a Federal Government organization.
• Demonstrated experience performing DBMS administrator activities in a classified environment.
• Knowledge of database system standards, methodologies, and business applications.
• Leadership ability to set priorities, balance workloads, conduct quality control, and advise/mentor developers.
• Proficiency with SQL Server, Oracle, Microsoft Access, C#/C++, Visual Studio, Entity Framework, LINQ/T-SQL, ASP.NET, IIS, HTML/CSS/Java/JavaScript/Ajax/XML/jQuery, Spotfire, and Splunk.

Pay

Salary range: $130,000–$180,000 annually. Actual compensation will be based on experience, qualifications, certifications, security clearance, and contract funding.