Senior Database Administrator

Momentum Engineering, Inc., a Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB), fosters an employee-centric culture. Our strength lies in our people. With a high percentage of employees holding advanced degrees in engineering, computer science, and related disciplines, we bring deep technical expertise to every mission. Our team includes professionals with security clearances and full-scope polygraphs, ensuring trusted, secure support for the most sensitive national security initiatives. Additionally, our workforce is equipped with industry-leading certifications, demonstrating a commitment to continuous learning and excellence. Most importantly, our exceptional employee retention rate reflects a culture of professional growth, mission focus, and dedication-ensuring long-term stability and expertise for our customers' critical needs.

Job Summary

• he selected candidate will maintain the integrity, security, and availability of multiple databases. Duties include disaster recovery, performance analysis and tuning, index maintenance, and monitoring of data, as well as administering, maintaining, developing, and implementing policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of the database. The selected candidate will evaluate and recommend available database management system products; perform database and software lifecycle activities to ensure the highest level of system performance, availability, and compliance with business requirements; and organize and format data for efficient query and storage processes

Primary Responsibilities

• Perform daily database administration, monitoring, and troubleshooting of system database and replication issues
• Monitor database performance and memory allocations using standard tools
• Perform system updates and Information Assurance Vulnerability Alert (IAVA) patching
• Troubleshoot and resolve database problems
• Perform database recovery actions
• Modify existing database scripts to enhance systems support and create new database scripts for recurring database issues
• Develop and execute SQL queries for routine and ad hoc requests
• Transition/ingest legacy data
• Translate requirements and data into usable database schemas by creating or recreating ad hoc queries, scripts and macros, making updates to existing queries, and creating new queries to manipulate data into a master file
• Recommend design and implementation practices that optimize the performance of GOTS/COTS databases and applications
• Assist in the development of database structures that fit into the overall architecture of the system under development
• Assist in developing databases, database parser software, and database loading software

Required Qualifications

• Must have at least three (3) years of demonstrated experience as a database administrator
• Must have at least three (3) years of Oracle Database Administration experience
• Must have experience implementing and maintaining database security
• Must have experience conducting database performance tuning and monitoring
• Must have experience troubleshooting and resolving database problems/issues
• Must have experience installing, configuring, and upgrading RDBMS software
• Must have experience with procedural languages such as PL/SQL

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline
• At least 10 years of high-level, in-depth database experience
• Experience with real time highly available data replication technologies such as Oracle Data Guard, Oracle Streams, Oracle Golden Gate, Sybase Replication Server
• Experience with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology and/or as a member of an Agile team
• Extensive experience with database design and development
• Extensive, in-depth understanding of databases, primarily Oracle and/or other relational and non-relational/NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB
• Experience using Oracle SQL/PLSQL, and SQL in general
• Experience with Mongo and/or Cassandra

Exempt hourly position. 11 paid holidays, minimum of 3 weeks PTO, company sponsored group medical plan, company paid dental, vision, life insurance, and STD/LTD plans. Salary is dependent upon the candidate's experience and qualifications.

The pay range for this role is:

140,000 - 190,000 USD per year ( Maryland Office )