Database Management Lead

Job Description

Description

Introduction

Make a difference for national security by joining a team of dedicated IT professionals who will sustain, modernize and transform the enterprise IT capabilities of the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA).  The Air Force and Combatant Commands Business Group of SAIC is seeking a Database Management Lead to support a transformational infrastructure program for DCSA.

SAIC is proud to be supporting DCSA in safeguarding our nation's information.  DCSA is the designated oversight authority on the accreditation of classified facilities, information systems, and the insider threat program.  This involves security oversight of more than 10,000 companies and approximately 13,000 facilities involved in classified work throughout the DoD and 31 Federal agencies.

Specifically, on the DCSA One IT program, SAIC will provide an enterprise IT solution that delivers highly secured and adaptable IT infrastructure, provides customer support, and cutting-edge technologies that support operations and advance the DCSA mission under a single IT environment (i.e., One IT).

Job Description

• Oversees lifecycle database management services for all system, production application, pre-production, and backup databases residing on DCSA networks as part of the overall strategic objective of the DCSA IT modernization and One IT initiatives to provide an improved flexible and evolving enterprise IT environment to support the DCSA mission IAW with DCSA and DoD policies and procedures and commonly utilized industry best practices. 
• Provides leadership and guidance, determines and prioritizes work assignments, ensures on-time delivery, and oversees all other aspects of the database management team.
• Ensures the database team is well trained for current and emergent technologies and products and cross-trained, where possible, to create additional depth of knowledge.
• Serves as primary liaison between database owners, users, other IT personnel, and the database management team. 
• Translates improvement requirements and requests into detailed functional and technical specifications and project plans for the data management team, as well as ensures compliance with Government data standards and records management policies. 
• Recommends and directs implementation of emerging database technologies. 
• Ensures all database instances have required security controls applied in accordance with DCSA policies (e.g., access controls, STIGs, version updates). 
• Oversees the selection, maintenance, and operations of database management tools. 
• Directs provisioning, modifying and managing data and schema, cloning and backup, troubleshooting, account management, enhancement, optimization, and decommissioning.  • Performs schema changes and conversions of the production database during application upgrades and new version releases.  
• Reviews, tests and recommends database software upgrades, as well as ensures database vendor license agreement compliance. 
• Leads efforts to optimize and maintain databases, clusters, and replications for pre-production, productions, and backup; ensure current application upgrades and releases are timely; and provide scripting to support database content and reporting. 
• Monitors, collects, analyzes, and reports database metrics, such as growth and usage of capabilities. 
• Ensures performance of daily database operations checks and status reports. 
• Coordinates with third-party vendors on and documents database issues and resolution. 
• Oversees development of database dictionaries. 
• Ensures existence and performance of backup and recovery capabilities, as well as disaster recovery/business continuity plans and other procedure and system documentation for development and production database environments. 
• Provide inputs into the Activity Report. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

It is required that the Database Management Lead have the following qualifications:

• BA/BS in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Information Systems, or Computer Science.
• Fourteen (14) or more years of relevant experience.  
• TS (SCI eligible).
• IAT Level III - Certification in one of the following areas: CASP+, CCNP Security, CISA, CISSP, CISSP-ISSAP and/or CISSP-ISSEP.
• Expert level knowledge of Oracle Database with 10+ years of experience.
• Applicable Database Compute Environment (CE) Certification.

Desired Qualifications

• TS/SCI.

Overview

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.

We are approximately 24,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion, which is core to our values and important to attract and retain exceptional talent. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.4 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.