Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

BI Full 6C (T4)

Job Family:

IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Database Environments, Database Operations, Data Engineering

Certifications:

None

Experience:

7 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact supporting the Case Management Modernization (CMM) Program.  The CMM program is an initiative to support the Administrative Office of the US Courts (AO) in developing a modern cloud-based solution to support all 204+ federal courts across the United States.

The Database Administrator will work as part of the CMM Data Modernization and Governance team responsible for delivering an integrated data governance, engineering, data platform, reporting, analytics, and Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) capabilities that support operational decision-making and fulfill AO's data and analytics objectives in support of the CMM program.

The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, building, configuring, and maintaining the organization's cloud data platform environments (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, AuroraDB, RDS, DynamoDB, and/or NeptuneDB), enabling scalable data engineering, analytics, and governance capabilities in support of the CMM Data Modernization & Governance program.

THE DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR WILL EXECUTE THE FOLLOWING RESPONSIBILITIES

• Administer and optimize cloud database environments, including configuration, scaling, performance tuning, and warehouse management.
• Create, maintain, and govern databases, schemas, roles, and RBAC in alignment with AO security, IAM, and compliance policies.
• Monitor & troubleshoot database performance, query efficiency, concurrency, capacity, & utilization.
• Implement cost‑optimization strategies and support TCO analysis, financial reporting, and right‑sizing.
• Automate database provisioning, user/role management, backups, and monitoring using SQL, Python, Terraform, or similar tooling.
• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain SQL, NoSQL, and graph database platforms.
• Manage database objects (tables, indexes, partitions, views, sp) and ensure optimal performance.
• Implement and manage backup, recovery, replication, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Support database migrations, upgrades, consolidations, and modernization initiatives.
• Enforce least‑privilege access, database security controls, encryption, authentication, authorization, and auditing.
• Support data retention, archival, classification, and lifecycle policies.
• Develop & maintain database monitoring dashboards, alerting, logging, and health‑check capabilities.
• Troubleshoot complex database incidents, failures, degradation, and availability issues; drive root‑cause analysis.
• Support DR/HA exercises, ATO documentation, security audits, and incident response for DB services.
• Integrate databases with data pipelines, applications, analytics tools, and cloud data platforms.
• Maintain database architecture diagrams, runbooks, performance reports, and configuration documentation.
• Collaborate with Data Platform Engineers, Data Engineers, Architects, Security teams, and app teams.
• Evaluate new database features, cloud capabilities, and platform enhancements; recommend adoption.
• Ensure DB environments comply with all security, privacy, governance, & regulatory requirements.
• Preferred Experience: Amazon RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Neptune; PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, Neo4j; AWS GovCloud; automation experience using Python, PowerShell, Terraform.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Education:Technical Training, Certification(s) or Degree required; BA/BS or MA/MS strongly preferred.
• Experience: 5+ years of general experience in IT systems required; 7+ years of experience with BA/BS or 5+ years of experience with MA/MS strongly preferred
• 5+ years of specialized experience in cloud database maintenance and database administration or similar role.
• Strong experience administering cloud database platforms, including Snowflake and AWS data services (Redshift, Aurora/PostgreSQL, RDS, Neptune).
• Expertise in SQL, performance tuning, workload management, and database optimization.
• Experience operating databases in AWS or hybrid cloud environments.
• Proven ability to automate database administration using IaC and scripting (Terraform, dbt, Python).
• Familiarity with federal security, compliance, and audit requirements.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with technical and business teams.
• Effective communication and documentation skills.
• Knowledge of modern monitoring/observability tools and CI/CD workflows.
• Experience applying industry best practices and emerging data platform technologies.
• Consultant mindset and ability to work with stakeholders to define and improve database operations.

PREFERRED CERTIFICATIONS

One or more of the following certifications is preferred but not required.

• Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)
• Snowflake SnowPro Core
• Snowflake SnowPro Advanced
• Databricks Certified Data Professional
• AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
• AWS Certified Data Engineer
• Docker Certified Associate
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator
• Certified Professional DevSecOps Certification Course
• ITIL, AWS SysOps, Google Cloud DevOps Engineer

Security Clearance Level: Must be able to pass a background check to obtain a position of Public Trust.

Must be a US Person (Green Card Holder, US Permanent Resident Alien, Refugee, Asylee, or US Citizen).

Location: Remote.

The likely salary range for this position is $138,063 - $186,791. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

 

Our Identity Verification Process:

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.