Database administrator - senior

At Significance, we believe the best results come from investing in great people. As a woman-owned consulting firm supporting federal civilian and Department of Defense customers, we bring together talented professionals who are passionate about solving complex challenges and making a meaningful impact.

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Significance Inc. is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to support an upcoming federal program (contingent upon award). The position is remote.

The U.S. Department of Labor runs its books on NCFMS, an Oracle E-Business Suite platform that moved roughly $70 billion in FY 2024 for about 1,600 users. You will be the hands-on, day-to-day owner of the Oracle database tier across every NCFMS environment. You keep those environments healthy, fast, secure, and recoverable, and you are the escalation point when a production database problem threatens a payment run or a closing deadline.

Objective: sustain the health, performance, security posture, and recoverability of the NCFMS database environments day to day, and resolve escalated production database issues within the contract service levels.

Required Skills:

• 9 years of progressive database administration experience, six (6) of those nine years administering Oracle E-Business Suite in a production
• Administer Oracle RDBMS: installation and configuration, hardening and security controls, tablespace management, and data integrity.
• Tune and monitor database performance; size and plan capacity.
• Administer the Oracle middle tier: install Middleware products, deploy application processes, harden middleware, and manage SSL certificates.
• Execute backup, restore, and instance overlay; backup encryption; RPO-driven daily secure backup with off-site transfer and media access control.
• Run COOP and Disaster Recovery: DR setup, DR-to-production synchronization, recovery at primary or alternate facility, and annual contingency plan testing.
• Manage the multi-instance lifecycle across Development, QA/Test, UAT, Training, COOP/DR, and Production under an approved Instance Management Plan.

Operations, monitoring, and performance

• Monitor performance and system availability against the contract uptime requirement, excluding scheduled outages.
• Monitor and manage business-critical nightly batch processing.

Security and compliance

• Working knowledge of NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5, FISMA, and DISA STIGs as applied to database and middleware hardening.

Process and communication

• Operate under a documented SDLC and a Change Control Board approval process, preparing deployment plans in advance of production migration.
• Produce written client deliverables: monthly metrics, patch compliance status reports, system technical status reports, hardware and software inventory lists, and the annual outage calendar.

Desired Skills:

• Federal financial system DBA experience at CFO Act agencies
• Experience with Tungsten MarkView and Capture invoice imaging and workflow integrated with Oracle Payables.
• Experience supporting PIV-card Single Sign-On integration with Microsoft Azure for an Oracle EBS environment.
• Experience supporting REST APIs for custom-developed screens and a ReactJS custom user interface layered on Oracle EBS
• Database-side experience supporting the interfaces: G-Invoicing, CARS, SPS, IPP, Data Act Broker, SAM, NFC, PMS, GrantSolutions, FPDS-NG, ETS2/Go.Gov, CIRA, the Trust Fund Interface, the Citibank Purchase Card interface, and the other interfaces
• Familiarity with the Oracle Federal Financials modules and the end-to-end processes for: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger and Sub-Ledger Accounting, Budget Execution, Fixed Assets, Purchasing and Requisitions, Purchase Cards, and Procure-to-Pay.
• Automation and scripting proficiency for monitoring, health checks, and change migration.
• Storage Area Network utilization monitoring, redundancy, and configuration input experience.

$138,000 - $151,000 a year

At Significance, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package and is determined within a range. Our pay ranges are based on the local cost of labor benchmarks for each specific role, level, and geographic location. We carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including but not limited to experience; job-related skill sets; relevant education or training; and other business and organizational needs. The salary range listed is for the level at which this job has been scoped. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for a comprehensive and generous benefits package.

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