Senior Database Administrator at Careers Decisionpointcorp, Remote

Senior Database Administrator at Careers Decisionpointcorp, remote. Full-time. Est. up to $130k. Apply with swipeandhired.

DecisionPoint seeks a Senior Database Administrator to provide enterprise-wide leadership of database operations supporting a major federal and DoD-aligned mission environment. This role oversees secure hosting of IL5-compliant database platforms, ensuring optimal performance, schema governance, RMF control alignment, and full integration with the SDLC, DevSecOps, and application development teams.
The Senior DBA i s responsible for database engineering, performance tuning, replication, failover strategies, backup and recovery, and vulnerability remediation while leading a technical team of database administrators. This role ensures the reliability, resilience, and security of mission-critical data systems across multiple environments.
This position is fully remote.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide senior-level leadership over database operations, engineering, and administration in IL5 cloud and on-premise environments.

• Oversee schema governance, indexing strategies, data modeling, and optimization for performance and scalability.

• Ensure database platforms comply with DoD security requirements, RMF controls, STIG baselines, and audit readiness.

• Lead performance tuning efforts, query optimization, and troubleshooting of complex database issues.

• Manage backup, recovery, replication, clustering, and failover strategies to support high availability.

• Coordinate with DevSecOps engineers on database integration within CI/CD pipelines.

• Support secure SDLC processes, including database change control and release planning.

• Manage database access controls, permissions, service accounts, and privileged user oversight.

• Oversee vulnerability scanning, patch planning, and remediation for database technologies.

• Collaborate with application developers to align database design with business logic, data workflows, and mission requirements.

• Maintain database documentation, ER diagrams, configuration baselines, and operational runbooks.

• Lead and mentor a team of DBAs, ensuring adherence to best practices, consistent processes, and high operational readiness.

• Provide technical input to modernization initiatives, cloud migration strategies, and new platform evaluations.

Qualifications

Clearance Requirement
Must hold an active Top Secret clearance, supported by a Tier 5 background investigation.

Education (Required)
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Sc