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Overview

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 is 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 Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Experience (Required)

• Minimum 10 years of experience in database administration, engineering, or architecture roles.

• Demonstrated leadership in managing enterprise-class database systems in secure federal or DoD environments.

• Experience implementing IL5 database security controls, RMF requirements, and STIG compliance.

• Experience supporting SDLC integration, release cycles, and DevSecOps workflows.

• Experience with performance tuning, complex queries, indexing, and database optimization.

• Experience managing replication, clustering, failover, and backup/recovery operations.

Technical Knowledge (Required)

• Strong expertise with relational database systems (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL).

• Proficiency in database security, encryption, auditing, and privileged access management.

• Knowledge of RMF, STIGs, IL5 cloud security controls, and DoD cybersecurity requirements.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automation tools, and DevSecOps concepts.

• Experience with database monitoring tools, log analysis, and performance analytics.

Certifications

Required:

• CompTIA Security+

Skills

• Strong leadership skills with the ability to manage and mentor technical teams.

• Excellent analytical and problem solving abilities, especially for complex data and performance issues.

• Clear communication skills for working with developers, security teams, and federal stakeholders.

• Strong attention to detail with disciplined documentation and configuration management practices.

• Ability to manage priorities across multiple environments in a mission-critical setting.

Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

• EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
• Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.
• Authorization to Share Resume and Personal Information: By expressing your interest and submitting your resume for this position, you authorize DecisionPoint Corporation to share your resume, as well as personal information included on the resume, with its subsidiaries, affiliates and teaming partners for the purpose of considering you for this position and other available positions requiring comparable skills, education and experience. Should DecisionPoint Corporation. or its affiliates and teaming partners wish to initiate pre-employment discussions, you will be asked to complete an employment application and related employment documents.

Originally posted on Himalayas

Overview

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 is 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 Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Experience (Required)

• Minimum 10 years of experience in database administration, engineering, or architecture roles.

• Demonstrated leadership in managing enterprise-class database systems in secure federal or DoD environments.

• Experience implementing IL5 database security controls, RMF requirements, and STIG compliance.

• Experience supporting SDLC integration, release cycles, and DevSecOps workflows.

• Experience with performance tuning, complex queries, indexing, and database optimization.

• Experience managing replication, clustering, failover, and backup/recovery operations.

Technical Knowledge (Required)

• Strong expertise with relational database systems (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL).

• Proficiency in database security, encryption, auditing, and privileged access management.

• Knowledge of RMF, STIGs, IL5 cloud security controls, and DoD cybersecurity requirements.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automation tools, and DevSecOps concepts.

• Experience with database monitoring tools, log analysis, and performance analytics.

Certifications

Required:

• CompTIA Security+

Skills

• Strong leadership skills with the ability to manage and mentor technical teams.

• Excellent analytical and problem solving abilities, especially for complex data and performance issues.

• Clear communication skills for working with developers, security teams, and federal stakeholders.

• Strong attention to detail with disciplined documentation and configuration management practices.

• Ability to manage priorities across multiple environments in a mission-critical setting.

Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

• EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
• Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.
• Authorization to Share Resume and Personal Information: By expressing your interest and submitting your resume for this position, you authorize DecisionPoint Corporation to share your resume, as well as personal information included on the resume, with its subsidiaries, affiliates and teaming partners for the purpose of considering you for this position and other available positions requiring comparable skills, education and experience. Should DecisionPoint Corporation. or its affiliates and teaming partners wish to initiate pre-employment discussions, you will be asked to complete an employment application and related employment documents.

Originally posted on Himalayas

Senior Database Administrator

PayTrace - Remote

PayTrace by North - Payment and ACH processing, virtual terminals, and more. The B2B payments expert transforming financial and accounting processes to future-proof your business. With advanced payment automation solutions and a user-friendly API, we help B2B companies become more efficient, successful, and profitable.

The Senior Database Administrator is an essential member of the Technology team, taking ownership of PayTrace’s entire database environment, which includes managing and maintaining production and development databases across multiple platforms. This role requires a highly critical thinker capable of making rapid, well-informed, and independent judgments to support PayTrace’s business-critical systems.Key responsibilities include provisioning, installation, configuration, operation, maintenance, patching, and general support of database systems. This person will also design and architect innovative database solutions, including modernizing the database infrastructure by migrating from MS SQL server to the AWS RDS environment.

What you'll do:

• Database Management & Operations:
  • Create and maintain databases and hosts for Production, Development, and various Test environments.
  • Ensure database availability and recoverability meet established Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and guidelines.
  • Rapidly and accurately resolve database issues utilizing all available tools.
  • Continuously monitor and tune database performance. Ensure integrity and availability of all resources, systems, and key processes, including reviewing logs and verifying that scheduled jobs (e.g., backups) are complete.
  • Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
  • Available to address production issues which may require evening, overnight, weekend, and holiday work.

• Architecture & Development Support:
  • Automate system administration with a focus on resource efficiency and scalability.
  • Design, implement and maintain database security based on best practices, company security standards and regulatory compliance.
  • Provide solutions to development teams when proposed architecture does not support technology strategy.
  • Assist developers with designing and tuning database queries and procedures.
  • Understanding of Technology vision, strategy, infrastructure standards, database platforms, programming languages, and observability and monitoring tools.
  • Migrate legacy database structures to support the modernization of the payment processing platform using microservice architecture.
  • Support the Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy and a multi-region active-active setup.
  • Support data pipeline automation to Snowflake.
  • Create and assist users in creating Business Intelligence (BI) reporting.

• General & Leadership:
  • Provide technical guidance to data stakeholders.
  • Regularly update and review contributions to operational, configuration, and other procedural documentation.
  • Make rapid, well-informed, independent judgments in support of PayTrace’s business-critical systems.
  • Perform other tasks as assigned by management such as running various reports for the leadership team and data stakeholders.

What we need from you:

• Education & Experience:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology/Computer Science or an engineering field.
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience supporting databases in an enterprise environment, with at least half of that time primarily in a PostgreSQL environment.

• Technical Expertise:
  • Solid knowledge of PostgreSQL version 15.x and MS SQL 1219/2022, with the ability to share that knowledge.
  • Experience supporting a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) in both Linux and Windows environments.
  • Proven experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies: Postgres RDS, SQL Server RDS, Aurora RDS and EC2.
  • Experience with Database High Availability / Replication technologies (e.g., AlwaysOn, Postgres HA).
  • Scripting and automation experience.

• Professional Skills:
  • Experience with troubleshooting problems and formulating resolutions with IT systems and individuals.
  • Ability to interact with a variety of clients in a clear, concise, and professional manner.
  • Solid understanding and working knowledge of the complete systems development and deployment lifecycle.
  • Working knowledge of all facets of systems administration in a large-scale IT operations unit.
  • Ability to make effective decisions in high-pressure situations with limited management escalation.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

How to stand out (Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Microsoft / Linux administration.
• AWS Certification is a plus.
• Microsoft MCDBA is a plus.

Salary Range: $110,000-$175,000

Pay within this range varies by work location and on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. We look forward to discussing your salary expectations and our full total rewards offerings throughout the interview process.

Please note: North is a US based company and this role is not eligible for current or future sponsorship.

PayTraceby North, your B2B payments experts, transforms financial and accounting processes to future-proof your business. With advanced payment automation solutions and a user-friendly API, they help B2B companies become more efficient, successful, and profitable. Processing more than $48 billion in payment transactions, PayTrace is committed to providing easy-to-use payment solutions and merchant services, with built-in PCI compliance and security, and 5-star service.

At North, we celebrate diversity and create an inclusive environment for everyone. We are an equal-opportunity employer.

To learn more about North and our family of companies, visit our website:

Originally posted on Himalayas