DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact supporting the Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AOUSC). The AOUSC is responsible for providing oversight, supervision, and coordination of the court and judicial case management systems. These systems include the Judiciary’s Case Management/Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) and Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) systems.

GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. The Database Administrator will work as part of the PACER Development team responsible for developing, operating, and supporting internal and external systems that allow for secure public access to court electronic records for the Judiciary.

The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, operating, maintaining, and providing Tier 3 support for enabling services for CM/ECF and PACER.

Responsibilities

• Provide full operational lifecycle support of Informix, MySQL and other databases including administration, configuration, maintenance, performance tuning and security.
• Work with enterprise DBAs to install, configure, secure, maintain, deploy, and support databases which reside on enterprise systems.
• Develop templates and implement standard configurations for all databases.
• Monitor database health and actively mitigate potential issues and downtime.
• Implement changes in all environments through approved change management processes.
• Participate in the design and implementation of changes to new and existing database schemas.
• Write SQL queries to extract data to support program and stakeholder requests.
• Ensure DB environments comply with all security, privacy, governance, & regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• MA/MS degree with 5+ years or BS/BA degree with 7+ years of general experience in IT systems.
• Strong experience administering cloud database platforms, including Informix and MySQL.
• 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.
• Familiarity with federal security, compliance, and audit requirements.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem‑solving skills.
• Effective communication and documentation skills.

Salary

The likely salary range for this position is $97,750 - $132,250. 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.

Additional Information

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.