Senior Database Administrator (REMOTE)

This position may be filled prior to the posted deadline. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

Koniag IT Systems, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to support KITS and our government customer in Washington, DC. The position is remote. This position requires the candidate to be able to obtain a Public Trust.

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, paid time off, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement.

Koniag IT Solutions (KITS) is seeking a Senior Database Administrator with a minimum of 8 years of experience to support enterprise Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle database environments for a federal civilian customer's mission-critical financial and case-management systems. The ideal candidate has led enterprise-scale database deployments, has hands-on experience migrating on-premises databases to AWS cloud platforms, and can mentor junior database administrators (DBAs) while owning performance, security, and availability of production database environments.

The Senior Database Administrator will be responsible for providing expert-level administration and performance tuning for enterprise Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle database environments, leading migration of on-premises databases to AWS as part of the customer's data center exit and modernization program and mentoring junior DBAs.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to

• Provide expert-level administration and performance tuning for enterprise Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle database environments.
• Lead design, deployment, and support of highly available database architectures, including clustering, replication, and Always On availability groups.
• Lead migration of on-premises databases to AWS (RDS, EC2-hosted, or GovCloud) as part of the cu