Database Administrator

Remote from: USA
Salary, yearly, USD: 120,000 - 140,000
Department: DevOps & Infrastructure
Employment type: Full Time,
Job posted: 12 Sep 2025
Apply before: 12 Oct 2025
Experience level: Midweight
Views / Applies: 59 / 15

About ECS

Partnering with leading organizations to deliver powerful solutions for a complex world.

Actively Hiring

ECS is seeking a Database Administrator to work remotely.

ECS is seeking a passionate MS SQL Database Administrator to support a rapidly growing Data Analytics and Business Intelligence platform focused on providing data solutions that empower our Federal customers. Your main priority will be supporting migration/modernization efforts focused on managing on-premise database environments proactively and ensuring database performance, availability, and security. As we continue our growth, you will also play a key role in ensuring scalability of our data systems in cloud/serverless database environments.

Responsibilities include:

Ensuring the availability and performance of the databases that support our systems, ensuring that they have sufficient resources allocated to support high resilience and speed.
Performing and assisting developers in ongoing performance tuning and migrating databases to modern solutions within Azure cloud and serverless.
Supporting the development team with in-depth analysis of database sources, ETL processes, and downstream reporting product utilization and complexity evaluations.
Proactively monitoring the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime and improve maintenance of the databases to include rollouts, patching, and upgrades.
Creating and maintaining technical documentation using defined technical documentation templates, as well as gaining an in-depth knowledge of the business data so you can propose and implement effective solutions.
Working within a structured and agile development approach.

Salary Range: $120,000 – $140,000

General Description of Benefits

Qualifications

Must be a US Citizen
Must be able to obtain a Public Trust Clearance
5+ years’ experience in using Database Management Systems
Experience with designing, setting up, monitoring and maintaining MS SQL instances (on-prem and Azure Cloud)
Experience with setting up, monitoring, and maintaining MS SQL backup and disaster recovery processes
Familiarity with data pipeline and workflow management tools
Strong understanding of MS Windows Server operating systems and complex ETL jobs
Comprehensive understanding of MS SQL access management and integration with frontend applications
Comfortable independently troubleshooting and proactively highlighting issues to the broader development team and customer
Experience with working in cloud environments (AWS/Azure)

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