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DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR
Position Type: Full-Time
Location: Virginia (VA) and client locations in the Washington, D.C. area
Work Arrangement: Hybrid — 2–3 days remote per week
POSITION SUMMARY
We are seeking a Database Administrator (DBA) with 1–3 years of professional database administration experience to provide hands-on administration and operational support for a large Oracle Database environment supporting Legacy EDGAR, EFMS, and associated data assets.
Legacy EDGAR is a mission-critical environment supporting filing intake, validation, processing, filer and entity management, workflow processing, data management, and public dissemination. The environment includes interconnected applications, databases, APIs and interfaces, infrastructure, archives, dissemination capabilities, and supporting systems.
The DBA will focus on maintaining database availability, performance, integrity, security, recoverability, and operational stability. The role includes supporting application releases, regulatory changes, maintenance activities, backup and recovery operations, disaster recovery, and the continued transition toward EDGAR 2.0.
The successful candidate will collaborate with application, infrastructure, platform, security, and operations teams to troubleshoot issues, maintain reliable database services, and support controlled production changes within a mission-critical environment.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Administer, monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot databases supporting Legacy EDGAR, EFMS, and associated data assets.
- Perform database monitoring, performance tuning, integrity checks, capacity planning, maintenance, and access administration.
- Implement approved database schema changes and support database modifications required by application releases and maintenance activities.
- Monitor database health and performance and proactively identify conditions that could affect system availability or EDGAR operations.
- Support production releases by coordinating database changes with applications, interfaces, reports, archives, and other dependent systems.
- Perform and monitor database backups according to approved schedules and retention requirements, validating successful completion and backup integrity.
- Troubleshoot backup failures and maintain appropriate operational and audit records.
- Execute authorized database restoration activities and support validation of restoration procedures.
- Support disaster recovery planning, testing, and exercises for Legacy EDGAR.
- Maintain database specifications, administration scripts, version control, change history, recovery procedures, and operational-readiness documentation.
- Protect database and transactional data integrity throughout normal operations, maintenance, releases, and system changes.
- Troubleshoot database incidents and performance issues in coordination with application, infrastructure, platform, security, and operations teams.
- Support database services within the broader Legacy EDGAR environment, including interactions with OpenShift, hosting infrastructure, middleware, production control, backup and restoration, and disaster recovery capabilities.
- Support interfaces and data exchanges among Legacy EDGAR components and downstream systems within the established support boundary.
- Participate in controlled changes necessary to maintain Legacy EDGAR stability while the SEC transitions capabilities toward EDGAR 2.0.
MINIMUM EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS
- 1–3 years of professional database administration experience supporting enterprise or mission-critical systems.
- Hands-on experience administering Oracle databases.
- Experience with database installation, configuration, monitoring, maintenance, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
- Experience with SQL and PL/SQL, database objects, indexing, query optimization, and execution-plan analysis.
- Experience implementing and supporting database schema changes in controlled production environments.
- Experience with database backup, recovery, restoration, and disaster recovery.
- Experience troubleshooting database availability, connectivity, capacity, and performance issues.
- Experience administering database accounts, permissions, privileges, and access controls.
- Experience creating and maintaining DBA scripts and operational procedures.
- Working knowledge of Linux or Red Hat Linux environments.
- Experience supporting databases that interface with multiple applications and downstream systems.
- Experience working within formal configuration management, change management, release management, and production support processes.
- Ability to participate in incident troubleshooting and production support for high-availability systems.
- Strong documentation, analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
- Experience supporting Oracle 19c or comparable enterprise Oracle environments.
- Experience with one or more of the following: Oracle RAC, Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), RMAN, Data Guard, or GoldenGate.
- Experience with highly available or clustered database environments.
MANDATORY TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Oracle Database Administration
- Oracle Database 19c or comparable enterprise Oracle environments
- SQL and PL/SQL
- Database installation, configuration, monitoring, and maintenance
- Database performance tuning, query optimization, and execution-plan analysis
- Database objects and indexing
- Database schema changes and controlled production database support
- Database backup, recovery, restoration, and disaster recovery
- Database availability, connectivity, capacity, and performance troubleshooting
- Database accounts, permissions, privileges, access controls, and data integrity
- DBA scripting and operational procedures
- Linux / Red Hat Linux
- Database integration with multiple applications and downstream systems
- Configuration management, change management, release management, and production support
- Incident troubleshooting and high-availability database support
- Highly available or clustered database environments
- Experience with one or more of the following: Oracle RAC, Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), RMAN, Data Guard, or GoldenGate
MANDATORY NON-TECHNICAL SKILLS AND ELIGIBILITY
- U.S. Citizenship: Must be a United States citizen, subject to confirmation of the client's citizenship requirement.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting abilities.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with application, infrastructure, platform, security, and operations teams.
- Ability to work in a hybrid arrangement at Virginia (VA) and client locations in the Washington, D.C. area, with 2–3 days remote per week.
NICE-TO-HAVE SKILLS
- Familiarity with Red Hat OpenShift or databases supporting containerized application environments.
- Experience with DevSecOps and automated deployment/release processes.
- Experience supporting database migrations, data synchronization, or coexistence between legacy and modernized systems.
- Federal Government or regulated-environment experience, particularly systems with strict security, audit, availability, and change-control requirements.
- Prior SEC or EDGAR experience.