Senior Database Administrator

At OAS, we specialize in powering the aviation industry forward as a dynamic management consulting firm. Our expertise lies in crafting tailored strategies that blend cutting-edge technical solutions with deep organizational insights to elevate civilian and military aviation partners.

About the Role

The Senior Database Administrator provides advanced database engineering, administration, sustainment, and modernization support for FAA operational systems and infrastructure. This role supports configuration management, logistics coordination, systems test support, engineering, maintenance, operational troubleshooting, help desk issue resolution, and information system security activities for mission-critical infrastructure environments.

This position is on site at either Atlantic City, NJ or Boonsboro, MD.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, maintain, and optimize secure, high-performance relational and nonrelational databases supporting operational and engineering objectives.
• Perform query tuning, performance optimization, capacity planning, schema support, backup and restoration planning, and technical troubleshooting to preserve database resilience and availability.
• Implement and support high-availability and disaster recovery capabilities such as replication, clustering, geo-redundancy, and automated failover.
• Define, manage, and track database-related configuration items, documentation, and approved baselines in alignment with FAA configuration management expectations.
• Support version-controlled changes, documentation of planned and tracked modifications, validation of implemented changes, and rollback planning for critical database-related changes.
• Support configuration audits and reporting activities verifying that the actual database environment matches documented baselines and approved system-state expectations.
• Support development and execution of test plans, procedures, schedules, and environments for functional, integration, regression, acceptance, migration, backup, recovery, and restoration testing.
• Document test results, discrepancy reports, corrective actions, and traceability to system requirements and operational expectations.
• Conduct backup and recovery testing, restoration testing, and support periodic DR drills and failover validation to ensure readiness during system or site-level disruptions.
• Support engineering activities involving high-availability distributed systems with integrated disaster recovery and failover requirements.
• Develop technical documentation for failover procedures, recovery point objectives (RPO), recovery time objectives (RTO), and restoration workflows required by the Program Office.
• Support platform modernization assessments and target-state planning involving virtualized infrastructure, hybrid containerized architecture, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, CI/CD, RBAC, password management, compliance tools, monitoring, and logging.
• Perform preventive and corrective maintenance, patch management, troubleshooting, and lifecycle support for database-related systems and dependencies.
• Monitor logs, alerts, telemetry, performance indicators, and ticketed issues to proactively identify operational concerns and reduce downtime.
• Support vulnerability identification, CVE/KEV analysis, asset correlation, risk prioritization, remediation recommendations, and quarterly security reporting activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Mathematics, or Science.
• 8 years of relevant experience in database engineering, system engineering, technical operations, or closely related mission-aligned work.
• Demonstrated experience supporting secure, high-performance relational and/or nonrelational databases in mission-critical or operationally sensitive environments.
• Demonstrated experience supporting backup and recovery, disaster recovery validation, performance optimization, technical documentation, and troubleshooting of database-related platforms or services.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance during the entire period of performance.
• U.S. citizenship required.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting FAA, NAS, aviation, DoD, DHS, or other mission-critical operational environments with high uptime and resiliency expectations.
• Experience with Linux, Windows, FAA data center, and cloud-connected environments in support of infrastructure or database operations.
• Experience with replication, clustering, geo-redundancy, automated failover, backup/recovery workflows, RPO/RTO documentation, and restoration testing.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, CI/CD, RBAC, monitoring, logging, vulnerability scanning, and patching where those technologies are part of modernization planning or target-state transition activities.
• Familiarity with NIST, CISA, IEEE, CIS guidance, NVD, MITRE CVE List, and CISA KEV Catalog concepts in a federal security environment.
• Experience coordinating deliverables such as PMRs, feasibility studies, technical documentation, issue tracking, meeting minutes, and leadership-ready briefing materials.
• Desired FAA experience, and knowledge of FAA Mission Networks, Mission Support Networks (MSIP), NAS Enterprise Secure Gateway (NESG), Operational IP Network (OPIP), FTI National Test Bed (FNTB).
• Knowledge in Sunhillo Servers (Brigantine and Rici), RHEL 9.0, CentOS, NGINX, Net Box, Insight, UAT, Prod, and Dev environments, Virtual Machines, Cisco Routers, Active Directory, Mongo Databases, Microsoft SQL, Lansweeper, Akamai.

Schedule

This position is on site in either Atlantic City, NJ or Boonsboro, MD. Travel is less than 10%.