OraclePostgres Database Administrator (HYBRID)

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal government contractor supporting national priority programs through our strategic solutions in the areas of Information Technology Test & Evaluation Program Mission Support Engineering & Analysis and Training. Must be able to work in Mechanicsburg PA 2x per week.

As an Oracle/Postgres Database Administrator with AMERICAN SYSTEMS you will have the opportunity to do the following: Provide Subject Matter Expert (SME) support for Oracle and PostgreSQL in a traditional on-premise VMware environment and an AWS Cloud environment.

• Provide Oracle/PostgreSQL database management and life cycle support for a collaborative engineering tools environment.
• Implement the conversion of existing databases to meet new release requirements.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of database management technology and investigates problems and inefficiencies in a well-established data base environment.
• Determine the impact of new or revised software on system operations and applications.
• Investigate factors such as amount of storage space consumed access times frequencies of reads and writes and problems encountered by other application and systems programmers using the DBMS software.
• Evaluate and determines alternatives and initiates corrective action to recover/restore data and return system back to normal operations.
• Administer day-to-day database operation and maintenance in an environment in which the system software is typically available from vendors and widely used.
• Ensure the database efficiently collects stores and processes data.
• Run utility routines/programs and investigate when reports indicate a decline in computer performance.
• Develop and maintain security procedures to guard against unauthorized intrusion into databases.
• Develop procedures and recommend methods to insure rapid access to all data.
• Analyze use of archived data and develop ways to insure optimum use of existing systems.
• Provide assistance to programmers/analysts in program development testing and implementation of modified programs.

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• Must have or be able to obtain a Secret Clearance.
• Must be able to work in Mechanicsburg PA 2 times per week.
• COMPTIA Security required
• 4 years of overall professional experience.