Database Administrator Engineer

Job ID: 2510946

Location: REMOTE WORK, VA, US

Date Posted: 2025-10-21

Category: Information Technology

Subcategory: Database Admin

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: No

Minimum Clearance Required: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Public Trust

Potential for Remote Work: Yes

Description

SAIC is recruiting a Database Administrator for one of our programs supporting the FDA. The candidate must be able to work collaboratively in a team environment. Your role with SAIC will keep you engaged in a diverse, fast-paced government environment while interacting with government stakeholders, team members and SAIC management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Performs high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for complex database management systems workstations and servers on multiple operating systems
• Produce various data artifacts to satisfy data requirements
• Work on writing complex queries and tuning already existing queries for better performance
• Clearly communicate highly technical details to customers who have little or no programming, database, or software development knowledge
• Use AWS available tools to create, manage and maintain ETL Process
• Identify necessary additional fields and review new metrics and presentations for accuracy and refinement
• Assist in updating metadata for products
• Perform quantitative and qualitative analysis
• Support in building data marts and data cubes to support user needs
• Generate Ad hoc task descriptions and track to completion in project management tool
• Collaborate with product team and customers
• Develop and document functional requirements, working with customer, project, and technical team
• Develop required documentation to support implementation such as data dictionary and data diagrams
• Implement and maintain patches / upgrades to the required database engine software in both a VMware and AWS cloud environment
• Maintain and validate database backup schemas and provide restores on demand
• Follow agency change management process for database related changes using ServiceNow

Qualifications

Skills:

• Self-motivated, professional, and excellent written and verbal communication
• Proficient with AWS services such as Redshift, RDS, Glue ETL, DMS, AWS Aurora, DynamoDB
• Experience working with various DBMS such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL Server
• Experience setting up DBs for BI and analytics tools such as Tableau, AWS QuickSight, PowerBI, SAS, etc.
• Programming experience (python, bash, powershell, perl)
• Microsoft SQL Server, PostGRES, Oracle, RedShift, Aurora, MySQL/Mariah
• Erwin, SQL Workbench, Informatica
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) RDS, and AWS Database Migration Service

Education and Clearance:

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or another related field
• 10+ years of relevant work experience
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.