USAF - Sr. Database Administrator
On-siteEllsworth, Maine, United States
Job Summary
Provide senior-level DB2 database engineering, administration, and technical support for FMWF production environments. Design, implement, and maintain database schemas, objects, structures, indexes, and data architecture while performing performance analysis, query optimization, and root cause engineering. Monitor availability, health, and utilization metrics to resolve degradation proactively, ensuring data integrity through rigorous backup, restore, and disaster-recovery capabilities. Engineer controlled patches, upgrades, and configuration changes with full validation, coordinating with system administrators, developers, and Government stakeholders. Conduct Level III support involving advanced diagnostics, log analysis, and fault isolation. Maintain accurate technical documentation and security controls aligned with DoD and Air Force compliance requirements.
Required Qualifications
- Active TS/SCI SSBI clearance
- B.S. Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- 10+ years of Database Administration experience
- Advanced experience administering and engineering enterprise IBM DB2 databases in high-availability, mission-critical environments
- Demonstrated expertise in DB2 schema design, data modeling, database objects, SQL, query optimization, indexing, statistics, storage, and performance tuning
- Experience with database performance engineering, capacity analysis, monitoring, root cause analysis, and sustainable corrective action
- Experience engineering and validating backup, restore, recovery, data protection, integrity, resilience, COOP, and disaster-recovery capabilities
- Experience integrating DB2 with WebSphere middleware and underlying Windows/Linux, virtualization, storage, network, identity, and application infrastructure
- Hands-on experience with configuration management, technical baselines, controlled changes, patching, upgrades, deployment validation, and post-change performance verification
- Ability to provide Level III support involving advanced diagnostics, log/trace analysis, debugging, fault isolation, and resolution of complex cross-stack problems
- Working knowledge of cybersecurity control implementation, vulnerability remediation, least privilege, database auditing, RMF/A&A evidence, and DoD/Air Force compliance
- Strong technical documentation, quality-control, automation/scripting, problem-solving, stakeholder-coordination, and communication skills
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