Database Administrator

Job Category: Information Technology

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: None

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Continental US

CACI has a need for a Database Administrator in our North Charleston, SC office, to be part of an Agile Development Scrum team providing web application support of a government customer.

What You’ll Get to Do:

• Coordinate with multiple teams: external data team, test team, developer team, and UX designer.

• Build and refine application database based on feature requirements that get refined and updated sprint-by-sprint.

• Maintain logical data mapping between application database and external data sources.

• Create and maintain a large test dataset for the application (a minimum of multiple thousands of rows).

• Support DevOps team by providing routine OS, software, and application support.

• Track, version, deploy, and rollback database changes to production and development databases.

• Configure databases to meet cybersecurity requirements, ensure regulatory compliance, and adhere to database best practices,

• Automate and standardize repetitive tasks with version-controlled scripts and procedures.

• Analyze and write complex queries to support gathering metrics, troubleshooting application issues, and diagnosing performance issues.

• Perform basic and routine system administrator tasks on RedHat Enterprise 7 servers as/when needed

• Work closely with members of the development, test, and operations teams to troubleshoot build breaks, enforce software quality standards, and deployment of the application to non-production and production environments.

• Configure, support, and maintain AWS EC2 instances running RedHat Enterprise Linux 7.

• Managing and monitoring all installed systems and infrastructure

• Installing, configuring, testing and maintaining operating systems, application software and system management tools

• Stay abreast of industry standards and apply innovations

• Provision and maintenance supporting AWS infrastructure

• Executing MySQL statements to support the development team and table migrations during deployment of new versions of the application.

You’ll Bring These Qualifications:

• Experience automating operational processes using scripting languages such as Shell/Ruby/Python/Ansible/Puppet/Chef tools.

• Experience developing, implementing, and continually improving system and network monitoring and alerting capabilities and procedures.

• Presents ideas for system improvements. Develops cost estimates for software developments or enhancements. Conducts impact analysis for software changes.

• Team-oriented individual with a strong work ethic and self-motivated.

• Familiarity with automated build processes and debugging Continuous Integration build failures.

• Ability to obtain/maintain a DoD Secret clearance.

• Ability to become Security+ certified within six months of hire.

These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:

• 5+ years’ experience as a Database Administrator

• Active Secret clearance

• College degree (B.S.) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems or a related discipline.

• Current Security+ certification

• Prior experience with continuous integration, test automation and/or CI/CD on iterative software development projects

• Understanding of infrastructure-as-code concepts and experience using tools like CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.

• AWS certifications

• Experience with relational databases, particularly MySQL

• Experience with configuration and administration of Atlassian applications – Jira, Confluence, Bamboo, Bitbucket

Company Overview: At CACI, you will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact by providing information solutions and services in support of national security missions and government transformation for Intelligence, Defense, and Federal Civilian customers. CACI is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.

As a federal contractor, CACI is subject to any federal vaccine mandates or other customer vaccination requirements. All new hires are required to report their vaccination status.