About This Role
This role supports the operations and maintenance of a federal program, focusing on the administration, maintenance, performance, availability, and security of Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database environments. The Database Administrator will provide day-to-day support, resolve technical issues, manage access, automate tasks, and maintain system documentation.
Responsibilities
- Administer and maintain Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database management systems and related applications
- Monitor database health, availability, capacity, and performance
- Perform database performance analysis and tuning
- Conduct routine database maintenance, backups, restoration, recovery, and archiving activities
- Create, update, maintain, and archive databases as required
- Perform database system-management and administrative functions
- Support database updates, patches, and upgrades, including testing, validation, implementation, and post-deployment monitoring
- Maintain database integrity, reliability, availability, and security
- Monitor database storage, utilization, and capacity requirements
- Identify and resolve database performance, connectivity, access, and configuration issues
- Administer database users, roles, permissions, and access controls
- Manage portal-site user accounts and permissions as required
- Review database access to ensure compliance with organizational security requirements
- Support security configuration, vulnerability remediation, and database hardening activities
- Coordinate with cybersecurity and system-administration teams to address database security risks and findings
- Respond to ad hoc trouble tickets that do not require a formal lifecycle development approach
- Troubleshoot database systems, portal sites, user accounts, database connections, and access permissions
- Make administrative or configuration modifications to existing portal sites as requested
- Provide database administration support for current, legacy, and future systems
- Diagnose and resolve database-related incidents and service disruptions
- Coordinate with application, engineering, and infrastructure teams to identify root causes and restore services
- Track issues through resolution and document corrective actions
- Develop repeatable processes for automating routine database administration activities
- Automate database maintenance, monitoring, backups, archiving, reporting, and other recurring administrative functions
- Identify opportunities to reduce manual effort, improve consistency, and strengthen operational reliability
- Coordinate database automation efforts with engineering, database administration, and system-administration teams
- Document automated processes and establish procedures for their ongoing maintenance and support
- Maintain a complete and accurate library of database, system, configuration, and operational documentation
- Document database architectures, configurations, dependencies, access controls, maintenance procedures, backup processes, and recovery procedures
- Update documentation following database, system, configuration, or process changes
- Work with the Information Owner to compile and maintain a complete and accurate data catalog in support of the Department of the Navy data-cataloging initiative
- Assist with identifying, classifying, documenting, and validating data assets and associated metadata
- Support audits, assessments, and documentation reviews as required
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of experience administering Oracle and Microsoft SQL server databases
- Demonstrated experience with database maintenance, performance tuning, backup, restoration, recovery, and archiving
- Experience administering database users, roles, permissions, and access controls
- Experience troubleshooting production database environments and resolving technical-support tickets
- Experience supporting database updates, patches, upgrades, migrations, and testing activities
- Experience with database monitoring, capacity planning, and system-performance analysis
- Experience creating scripts or automated processes for database-administration activities
- Strong technical-documentation skills
- Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, system administration, application support, cybersecurity, and business stakeholders
Nice to have:
- Experience supporting Department of Defense or Department of the Navy systems
- Experience working in regulated, secure, or mission-critical environments
- Knowledge of federal cybersecurity, information-assurance, data-governance, and system-documentation requirements
- Experience supporting web portals, portal permissions, and user-account administration
- Experience with database scripting, job scheduling, monitoring, and automation tools
- Familiarity with data cataloging, metadata management, and data-governance initiatives
- Experience supporting both legacy and modern database environments
Benefits
- 15 days PTO including paid parental, military, and bereavement leave
- Eleven (11) paid Federal holidays, five of which are floating holidays (as designated by the company
- Health and Dental Insurance (including 100% employer paid premiums for employee coverage under the HDHP health plan)
- Life Insurance, STD/LTD term disability coverage, with employer paid premiums
- 401 (k) plan with a match that is 100% vested after you complete two years of service
- FSA/DFSA/HSA flexible benefit plans
- Annual Tuition & Professional Development Reimbursement benefit
Important Details
- Clearance Required: Secret
- Application deadline: 11/20/2026
About the Company
Alpha Omega is an award-winning solutions provider dedicated to delivering mission-enabling technology and strategic solutions for its federal customers. Since its founding in 2016, the company has grown to over 700 employees nationwide, consisting of former operators, technologists, and strategists. Alpha Omega provides technical capabilities and solutions for customers across two main business units: National Security (supporting agencies such as DHS, Navy, Air Force, Army, and DOS) and National Resilience (supporting agencies such as FDIC, Treasury, HHS, NIH, NOAA, and USDA).
