Database Administrator – Infrastructure & Disaster Recovery (National Talent Only)

Job Objective

Database Administration and Maintenance

• Install, configure, administer, patch, and upgrade approved enterprise database platforms across on-premises and selected cloud-hosted environments.
• Manage instances, schemas, storage allocation, system parameters, transaction logs, connectivity, and database-level objects.
• Perform health checks, integrity checks, index maintenance, statistics updates, and operational housekeeping.
• Maintain database inventories, configuration records, technical dependencies, and operating procedures.
• Support migrations, upgrades, consolidation, and platform-modernization initiatives.

Performance and Capacity Management

• Monitor database availability, performance, workload, resource utilization, and storage growth.
• Investigate query-performance issues, locking, blocking, deadlocks, connection problems, and recurring bottlenecks.
• Analyze execution plans and recommend query, indexing, schema, or configuration improvements.
• Maintain performance baselines and forecast compute, memory, storage, and connection capacity.
• Coordinate infrastructure-capacity requirements with Systems, Storage, and Cloud teams.

Backup and Recovery

• Configure and maintain backup and recovery arrangements according to database criticality, retention requirements, RTOs, and RPOs.
• Administer database-native backup, restoration, and point-in-time recovery processes and integrate databases with the enterprise backup platform.
• Monitor backup activities, investigate failures, and resolve recoverability gaps.
• Conduct restoration and recovery tests and validate the availability, integrity, and consistency of restored databases.
• Maintain backup schedules, recovery records, and testing evidence.

High Availability and Disaster Recovery

• Configure, administer, and monitor database high-availability, replication, and disaster-recovery technologies.
• Monitor replication, synchronization, availability, and failover readiness.
• Maintain failover, failback, restoration, and recovery procedures for critical database services.
• Participate in switchovers, failover tests, and disaster-recovery exercises.
• Coordinate recovery activities with Infrastructure, Applications, Network, Backup, and Cybersecurity teams.

Security, Automation, and Lifecycle

• Apply database-security standards, secure configuration baselines, and least-privilege access controls.
• Administer users, roles, privileged accounts, service accounts, and database permissions.
• Support access reviews, vulnerability assessments, security patching, auditing, logging, encryption, and audit evidence.
• Implement database changes through approved change-management processes with validation, rollback, and recovery arrangements.
• Develop scripts for monitoring, maintenance, backup validation, and reporting.
• Maintain scripts and configuration files in approved version-control repositories and manage platform support lifecycles.

Incident and Operational Support

• Investigate and resolve availability, connectivity, performance, corruption, replication, and recovery incidents.
• Conduct root-cause analysis for significant or recurring database incidents and implement corrective actions.
• Restore database services according to operational priorities and recovery procedures.
• Prepare database health, performance, capacity, backup, and recovery-readiness reports.
• Participate in on-call or emergency technical-support arrangements where required.

Role Requirements

• Ability to administer enterprise database environments across on-premises and selected cloud-hosted platforms.
• Ability to manage database backup, restoration, high availability, replication, and disaster-recovery arrangements.
• Ability to apply database security, access control, auditing, logging, encryption, and vulnerability-management practices.
• Ability to automate routine database monitoring, maintenance, backup validation, and reporting activities.