DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR SENIOR

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Database Management, Mainframe Technologies, Open Systems, Structured Query Language (SQL) Development

Certifications:

None

Experience:

3 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR SENIOR

Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Database Administrator Senior and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT:

As a Database Administrator Senior, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to support the New York State (NYS) Department of Heath Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) program.

You’ll join our talented Architecture Team with oversight of the information architecture. You will play a crucial role in the planning strategic direction and define the guiding principles that shape our software, data and technology adoption practices. Will be a part of the DBA team supporting the NYS MMIS. You will be responsible for the maintenance and support of multiple high volume multi-terabyte DB2 LUW, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and DB2 z/OS databases. You will work with the development team to understand requirements and create structures to accommodate them. Also responsible for trouble shooting and database and SQL performance tuning.  

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Bring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Database Administrator Senior must have:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field preferred
• Required Experience: The position requires 3+ years of database experience in a distributed environment; Mainframe and Open Systems are required.

• Required Technical Skills:
  • Strong SQL proficiency and hands-on database administration experience
  • Performance tuning and optimization (indexing strategy, query tuning, execution plan analysis)
  • Database backup and recovery design and execution
  • High availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) configuration and support
  • Monitoring, alerting, and capacity planning for production databases
  • Scripting for automation (SQL, Bash, or Python)
  • DB2 (LUW) administration experience, including:
    • DB2 HADR configuration and management
    • Tablespace, buffer pool, and storage optimization
    • Backup/restore operations using db2backup/db2restore
    • Performance troubleshooting via db2pd, snapshot monitors, db2expl

• Required Skills and Abilities:
  • Ability to design, implement, and maintain secure database environments
  • Understanding of RBAC, least-privilege access, and secure authentication practices
  • Experience with patching, vulnerability remediation, and secure configuration baselines
  • Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, including root-cause analysis
  • Ability to create clear documentation and operational runbooks
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with developers, DevOps/SRE, and security teams
  • Ability to work effectively in fast-paced environments and participate in on-call rotations
  • Strong ownership mindset and commitment to database reliability and performance
  • Experience in a high-volume mission critical environment with strict performance Service Levels 
• Preferred Skills:
  • Experience with monitoring and observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK)
  • Airflow or other workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Prefect, Dagster)
  • Advanced database security practices:
    • Audit logging, database activity monitoring
    • Data masking, tokenization, field-level encryption
    • Key management (KMS/HSM), certificate rotation
    • Understanding of compliance frameworks (HIPAA, NIST800)
  • Experience with event streaming and CDC
  • Exposure to DB2 pureScale or advanced clustering architectures
  • Advanced MongoDB experience (sharding, advanced performance tuning)
  • MongoDB administrative experience, including replica sets, indexing, query tuning, basic security configuration, and backup/restore
  • Managing database disaster recovery
  • Experience with healthcare claims processing desirable

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE
At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.
● Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
● Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
● Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
● Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
● Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY
Explore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward.

The likely salary range for this position is $106,250 - $143,750. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

None

Telecommuting Options:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

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