USAF - Database Administrator

c. Focus Software seeks a Database Administrator to join our program supporting the United States Air Force (USAF). This position is on-site in Linthicum Heights, MD. This position requires an Active TS/SCI clearance.

Qualifications

Active TS/SCI clearance B.S. Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field Experience installing, configuring, administering, and troubleshooting enterprise database environments. Ability to monitor database performance, diagnose availability issues, and implement approved tuning and optimization changes.

Experience managing database backups, validating restores, and documenting recovery procedures. Experience administering database accounts, access permissions, secure configurations, and patches. Working knowledge of data structures, data integrity, ETL processes, and database support for reporting or business intelligence.

Ability to maintain technical documentation, follow controlled changes and deployments, and provide evidence for security assessments. Clear communication skills for working with users, system owners, and technical teams Duties: Install, configure, deploy, and administer assigned database environments in accordance with Government-approved requirements, designs, security baselines, and change procedures.

Proactively monitor database health, availability, and performance. Investigate alerts, diagnose operational problems, and coordinate rapid resolution with application and infrastructure teams. Analyze database workloads and resource utilization, identify performance bottlenecks, and implement approved tuning and optimization measures.

Configure and maintain database backup and recovery processes, monitor job results, investigate failures, and perform recovery validation to support reliable restoration. Administer database user accounts and permissions only as authorized by the Government. Conduct regular permission audits and correct discrepancies with the appropriate system owners.

Apply approved database updates, patches, and secure configurations in coordination with cybersecurity and systems personnel. Document changes and validate affected services. Support construction, configuration, and operation of data warehouse and data lake environments under Government-approved designs and data models.

Work with data and business intelligence engineers on database structures, Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) integration, and reporting platform requirements. Implement assigned data security and access controls under the approved system security plan. Support data tagging, metadata management, and interoperable data standards.

Support data quality monitoring and remediation by investigating data integrity issues, coordinating corrective actions, and supplying monthly metrics and reporting inputs. Maintain database configuration records, operating procedures, backup and recovery documentation, and technical inventories. Provide current-state and capacity information for planning.

Support approved automated deployment and configuration workflows, including testing, change traceability, and production releases under Dev. Sec. Ops procedures. Provide database logs, monitoring data, and technical evidence for incident response, Risk Management Framework assessments, and ATO or continuous ATO activities.

Coordinate database dependencies and outages with service desk, NOC, application, and cybersecurity teams. Support continuity planning and twice-yearly system recovery testing.