Database Administrator (Senior) at Careers Decisionpointcorp, Chicago, IL
Database Administrator (Senior) at Careers Decisionpointcorp in Chicago, IL. Full-time. Est. up to $130k. Apply with swipeandhired.
Database Administrator (Senior)
ID
2026-4317
Job Locations
US-IL-Chicago
Category
Information Technology
Type
Regular Full-Time
Overview
DecisionPoint seeks two Senior Database Administrators to support daily database operations, monitoring, maintenance, access administration, patching, backup and recovery, and troubleshooting under the USMEPCOM ENLIST program.
These positions will administer Microsoft SQL Server environments supporting mission applications, data analysis, AI-related data activities, and data warehouse operations. The Database Administrators will maintain database health, security, performance, and recoverability while supporting approved schema changes and maintaining accurate operational documentation.
The successful candidates will collaborate with database architects, data engineers, application teams, infrastructure personnel, cybersecurity specialists, and Government stakeholders to sustain reliable database services and resolve operational issues.
These positions are remote, with Chicago-area candidates preferred.
Note: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.
Duties & Responsibilities
The Senior Database Administrators will:
- Perform daily monitoring and administration of Microsoft SQL Server environments.
- Monitor database availability, performance, capacity, storage utilization, job execution, and system alerts.
- Execute scheduled maintenance, integrity checks, indexing, statistics updates, and other approved database maintenance activities.
- Plan and implement approved database patches and updates, including pre-change checks, validation, and rollback preparation.
- Administer database accounts, roles, permissions, and service access in accordance with approved access requests.
- Review access configurations and support periodic access validation.
- Execute and monitor database backups, investigate failures, and maintain backup records.
- Perform database restores and recovery testing to verify recoverability.
- Support outage restoration and database recovery in coordination with architecture, infrastructure, application, and operations teams.
- Troubleshoot database connectivity, job failures, blocking, resource contention, integrity issues, and performance degradation.
- Tune queries, indexes, configurations, and maintenance processes within approved technical standards.
- Support database and warehouse operations, including scheduled loads, data refreshes, and integration dependencies.
- Implement approved schema changes, database objects, and configuration updates.
- Coordinate changes with application, data engineering, analytics, and testing teams.
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