Job Requirements
Reston, VA
Top Secret/SCI CI Polygraph
Career Level not specified
$170,000 - $210,000
Job Description
Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking an experienced to support the modernization of a mission-critical government information system. This role focuses on Oracle 19c database administration across both on-premises and AWS RDS environments, supporting database performance, security, migrations, disaster recovery, and enterprise application integrations. The ideal candidate will have extensive Oracle administration experience within secure government environments and a strong background supporting large-scale modernization initiatives.
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- Hybrid role supporting a mission-critical federal modernization effort.
- 3 days on, 2 days remote.
- Candidates may work from , while collaborating with application, infrastructure, database, and security teams to modernize and sustain enterprise government systems.
- Administer, maintain, and optimize databases in production environments.
- Design and implement database schemas supporting enterprise applications and reporting solutions.
- Perform database performance tuning, troubleshooting, and optimization activities.
- Manage Oracle patching, upgrades, and lifecycle maintenance.
- Develop and maintain backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies.
- Implement database security controls, hardening standards, and compliance requirements.
- Ensure database integrity, availability, and operational reliability.
- Support integration efforts with Java applications, SAP Business Intelligence environments, and Apache Solr indexing platforms.
- Assist with migration efforts from VMware/on-premises environments to .
- Deploy and manage database monitoring and operational support solutions.
- Troubleshoot production database issues and coordinate resolution efforts across infrastructure and application teams.
- Maintain system documentation, architecture artifacts, operational procedures, and compliance records.
- 13+ years of experience in database engineering, database administration, or enterprise IT environments.
- Extensive experience administering in production environments.
- Experience supporting both and on-premises Oracle deployments.
- Strong experience with database design, schema development, and implementation.
- Expertise in database performance tuning and optimization.
- Experience with backup, recovery, and disaster recovery planning.
- Strong understanding of Oracle security hardening and database compliance requirements.
- Experience supporting Java application and database integrations.
- Experience troubleshooting complex production database environments.
- Familiarity with federal compliance frameworks such as , , or similar.
- Strong documentation and technical communication skills.
- Active required.
- Active .
- Experience migrating databases from VMware environments to AWS RDS.
- Experience supporting environments.
- Experience integrating Oracle databases with .
- Experience supporting large-scale government modernization or cloud migration initiatives.
- Pay Band: $170,000 - $210,000
- Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k, 20 days of paid time off, 11 federal holidays, and sick leave.
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