Database Administrator

  • Full-time

Company Description

Quantum Dynamics, Inc. (Quantum) is a Women-Owned, Small Disadvantaged Business that is SBA certified, headquartered in McLean, Virginia. The company is a service oriented firm with a rich corporate history of quality, responsive service and multi-disciplinary staff having the requisite education, specialized training, and experience to meet the exact needs of all their clients. Quantum focuses on providing quality Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Logistics, Business Management, and Training Support Services to professional, government, and scientific organizations.

Job Description

USFF HQ Communications and Information Systems Division and its associated network capabilities are currently supporting activities, which significantly contribute to Navy Fleet Readiness and Homeland Security. Some of the functions supported by the network include automated tools that enhance the war-fighter’s ability to execute their mission, support to mission areas such as Fleet Operations, Fleet Logistics, Maintenance, Supply, Legal, Readiness, Plans and Policy, Program Planning and Management, and Personnel; hurricane preparedness and response; world-wide support of bases, the warfighter, and stations; Readiness reporting for Commanders of the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets; Readiness support for the CNO; and securing the Homeland. USFF also manages the Information Systems required for Joint and Coalition operations within the Commander Task Force 80 (CTF-80) Area of Responsibility (AOR).

  • Manage and maintain all required security level/posture of all MS SQL Servers.
  • Servers must be Information Assurance (IA) compliant to the latest policies and standards (i.e. STIG, IAVA, etc.)
  • Document and generate report on all changes applied to MS SQL Servers.
  • Provide assistance in the processing and submission of Certification and Accreditation (C&A) for MS SQL Servers.
  • Provide recommendation on industry best practices in the use of MS SQL Server and upcoming trends in database design, implementation and sustainment.
  • Manage and maintain all MS SQL services to ensure that they are always at peak performance (greater than 99.99%).
  • Improve slow performing database(s) and/or code(s) to attain their peak performance throughout the life cycle of the database.
  • Must ensure that all Transact-SQL code are bug free and executes effectively and efficiently.
  • Manage and maintain all database backup and recovery. There must not be any loss of any data (in part or in whole).
  • Develop and maintain Analysis Services (such as DAX, OLAP/MOLAP), SQL Reporting Services, Data Transformation Services packages, Business Intelligence, Availability Groups, Clustering, and SQL Agent jobs. These items must be responsive and optimized to execute close to 99.99% efficiency.
  • Provide effective and quality training and/or assistance to data analysts, coders/programmers (including pre-production code reviews), data modelers, managers, and users.
  • Perform auditing, base lining/enhancing/optimizing/tuning (especially index tuning and custom statistics), monitoring and troubleshooting.
  • Plan configuration changes, future workloads, and future system resources that are aligned to government mission and goals.
  • Report to government lead about system conditions, failures and future needs.
  • In case of malfunctions, immediately report to government lead all issues and provide appropriate resolution or mitigation.
  • Develop POAM for all projects and tasks.
  • Attend meetings either physical or virtual.
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Qualifications

Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSA) / Experience Requirements:

  • Minimum 8 years of experience as DBA in Microsoft SQL Server.
  • Minimum 8 years of in-depth knowledge and experience in database theory and design.
  • Minimum 8 years of in-depth experience in planning, implementing, administering and programming Microsoft SQL Server.
  • Minimum 4 years of in-depth knowledge and experience of Windows O/S, distributed computing architecture (client-server), networking, storage area network (SAN), and Virtualization (Hyper-V and VMware).
  • Experience in Microsoft .NET programming (C# or VB.NET).
  • Minimum six years of in-depth knowledge and experience in Transact SQL and PowerShell.

Education

  • Bachelor Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or Associate Degree in Computer Science with additional 2 years of experience.

Certification Requirements

  • Must maintain current CompTIA Security+ certification.
  • Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert: Data Platform or Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert: Data Management and Analytics. MCSE certification must be one of the current published paths by Microsoft with emphasis on the platform or system that support USFF.

Security Clearance

  • Must have an active secret clearance

 

Additional Information

 

  • All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.