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SAIC · 20 hours ago

Oracle/NoSQL Database Administrator

SAIC is seeking a highly skilled and experienced senior-level Database Administrator (DBA) to join their team. The role involves managing and optimizing both Oracle and NoSQL databases, ensuring database performance, availability, and security, while also leading migration projects to AWS and handling complex database challenges.

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Responsibilities

Database Management: Administer, maintain, and implement permissions, policies and procedures for ensuring the secure connectivity and integrity of databases
Performance Tuning: Monitor database performance, implement changes and apply new patches and versions when required to ensure optimal performance. Work closely with the application teams to optimize the application interaction with NoSQL
Failover and Recovery: Design and execute database backup and recovery strategies, including failover planning and testing
Migration and Upgrade: Lead migration projects from on-premises databases to AWS, relational databases to NoSQL, including planning, execution, and validation of database migrations and upgrades
Security and Compliance: Ensure database security measures are in place, including access controls and audit logging. Comply with all applicable data privacy laws and regulations
Data Warehousing: Manage and optimize AWS Redshift instances and other data warehousing solutions for scalable and efficient data storage and analysis
Monitoring: Utilize AWS CloudWatch and other monitoring tools to ensure database health, performance, and to automate scaling and notifications
Troubleshooting and Support: Provide support for complex database issues, including troubleshooting and resolving database integrity issues, performance issues, blocking and deadlocking issues, replication issues, log shipping issues, etc

Qualification

Oracle databasesNoSQL databasesAWS DocumentDBDatabase migrationFailoverRecoveryMongoDB Query LanguageAWS CloudWatchScripting languagesMonitoring toolsEnterprise database managementCommunication skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and at least 10 years of relevant experience
Proven experience as a DBA with expertise in Oracle and NoSQL databases
Extensive experience with AWS DocumentDB database services
Solid experience in database failover, recovery procedures, and disaster recovery planning
Demonstrated experience with migrating on-premises databases to AWS
Proficient in MongoDB Query Language (MQL), database design, and data modeling
Familiarity with AWS CLI, SDKs, and CloudWatch
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to handle Oracle Prod issues and carry the Oracle Duty Phone on a rotational basis
Solid NoSQL (DocumentDB and MongoDB) skills
Solid experience of migrating databases from on-prem to cloud

Preferred

AWS or relevant database certifications (e.g., Oracle Certified Professional, AWS Associate Architect)
Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation of database tasks
Deep familiarity with database monitoring tools, especially AWS CloudWatch, for performance monitoring and alerting
Experience with large enterprise database design, implementation, and optimization, for example, Oracle RDS on Exadata
Experience with Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Experience with DocumentDB or MongoDB
Experience with Big Query is a plus
Master's degree (or higher) in computer science or related field is a plus

Company

SAIC specializes in IT, enterprise IT, engineering, and professional services.

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$522.13M
Key Investors
U.S. Geothermal
2025-09-22Post Ipo Debt· $500M
2010-09-13Post Ipo Equity· $22M
2006-10-13IPO

Leadership Team

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Prabu Natarajan
Chief Financial Officer
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Kevin F Brown
Senior Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer
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