Senior Database Administrator

United States - Remote

9th Way Insignia is a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business bringing transformative technology to our government customers so they can achieve their missions.  Our specialties include cybersecurity, cloud modernization, software development, data analytics, enterprise architecture, enterprise IT, analytics, process automation, and artificial intelligence.  Learn more about 9th Way Insignia at https://9thwayinsignia.com/.

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This position is contingent upon contract award.

Professional Level Information: 

The Senior DBA aligns as an Engineer 2 at 9th Way Insignia. The role provides expert Oracle database engineering and operations across VESEE 2.0 modernization and sustainment, including performance engineering, data migration, and continuity of operations for the Enrollment System (ES) and consolidated legacy datasets (EDB, IVM, VistA REE). 

 
Responsibilities: 

  • Own end-to-end Oracle database performance engineering: AWR/ASH analysis, wait event tuning, SQL trace, Statspack, and optimizer plan management. 
  • Design and execute data migration strategies for consolidating EDB, IVM, and VistA REE data into the modernized ES, ensuring data integrity, lineage, and auditability. 
  • Develop and optimize PL/SQL, partitioning strategies, indexing, and materialized views for high-volume eligibility and enrollment workloads. 
  • Implement GoldenGate and/or native Oracle replication strategies to support phased cutovers, near–zero downtime transitions, and rollback plans. 
  • Harden database platforms to VA standards (FedRAMP, FISMA, IRS 1075, HIPAA): encryption at rest (TDE), in-transit (SSL/TLS), key rotation, and privileged access controls. 
  • Engineer backup/recovery and DR patterns (RMAN, Data Guard) with validated RPO/RTO; conduct routine failover testing and RCA following incidents. 
  • Establish observability baselines using Splunk/Microsoft Azure Monitor; publish performance SLOs and weekly capacity reports to the Product Lifecycle Team. 
  • Collaborate with DevSecOps to integrate schema migrations into CI/CD (Liquibase/Flyway), automate change promotion, and enforce configuration management. 
  • Support database security operations: auditing, least privilege, separation of duties, STIG alignment, and vulnerability remediation. 
  • Lead data quality and reconciliation activities post-migration; define controls for duplicates, referential integrity, and cross-system consistency. 
  • Provide Tier 3 escalation for production incidents; perform query rewrites, plan baselines, and emergency performance triage during peak loads. 
  • Contribute to capacity planning and cloud architecture decisions for VAEC-hosted Oracle workloads; right-size compute/storage and IOPS. 

 
Requirements: 

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical discipline. 
  • 6 years of relevant DBA experience; 10 additional years may be substituted for education. 
  • Expert-level Oracle skills (12c/19c+): performance tuning, optimizer behavior, indexing, partitioning, and PL/SQL. 
  • Proven data migration experience at enterprise scale, including replication, ETL/ELT, and cutover planning. 
  • Hands-on experience with RMAN, Data Guard, GoldenGate, and schema migration tooling (Liquibase/Flyway). 
  • Demonstrated proficiency with SSL/TLS, TDE, OAuth2/OIDC integration points, and MFA-enabled access patterns. 
  • Experience operating in regulated federal environments; familiarity with FedRAMP, FISMA, IRS 1075, HIPAA, and VA directives. 
  • Strong command of observability and performance diagnostics using Splunk, Azure Monitor, and AWR/ASH. 
  • Ability to mentor engineering teams, review test plans, and contribute to sprint deliverables and operational runbooks. 
  • Availability for sporadic after-hours escalation; capable of rapid triage under the DRE golden signals (latency, traffic, errors, saturation). 

Salary Range

$78,522 - $105,000 USD

9th Way Insignia’s range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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