Database Administrator

Empower AI is AI for government. Empower AI gives federal agency leaders the tools to elevate the potential of their workforce with a direct path for meaningful transformation. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Empower AI leverages three decades of experience solving complex challenges in Health, Defense, and Civilian missions. Our proven Empower AI Platform® provides a practical, sustainable path for clients to achieve transformation that is true to who they are, what they do, how they work, with the resources they have. The result is a government workforce that is exponentially more creative and productive. For more information, visit www.Empower.ai.

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We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Database Administrator (DBA) Engineer to lead the design, implementation, maintenance, and performance tuning of our database systems. This role is critical to ensuring data integrity, availability, and security across our enterprise systems. This is a casual position.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain complex database systems (SQL Server).
• Monitor database performance and proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Develop and implement database backup, recovery, and high availability strategies.
• Collaborate with development and DevOps teams to optimize database queries and schema design.
• Automate routine database tasks using scripting languages (Python).
• Ensure database security by implementing access controls, encryption, and auditing.
• Lead database migration and upgrade projects.
• Mentor junior DBAs and provide technical leadership.
• Maintain documentation for database configurations, procedures, and standards.
• Participate in on-call rotation and provide support for critical incident

Requirements:

• • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field or equivalent experience
  • 10-15 years of experience in database administration, engineering, or a related role.
  • Expertise in at least one major RDBMS (e.g., SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL).
  • Strong knowledge of database architecture, replication, clustering, and disaster recovery.
  • Proficiency in performance tuning and query optimization.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code
  • Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

Physical Requirements:

This position requires the ability to perform the below essential functions:

• Sitting for long periods

All hiring and promotion decisions at Empower AI are based on merit to bring the best talent available to contribute to our firm’s overall success. It is the policy of Empower AI not to discriminate against any applicant for employment, or employee because of age, color, sex, disability, national origin, race, religion, or veteran status. Empower AI is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.