# PostgreSQL Database Administrator

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Ashburn, VA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $107,900.00 - $195,050.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The National Security Sector within Leidos is seeking a PostgreSQL Database Administrator with strong systems, software, cloud, and Agile experience to support the Passenger Systems Program Directorate (PSPD) within Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

In this hands-on position, you will work collaboratively to architect, design, build, deliver, and enhance highly available, scalable, real-time systems.

**Responsibilities:**

- Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and support ability and effectiveness analyses.

- Designs and implements database schemas and structures according to project requirements.

- Develops and maintains documentation for database environments, including data standards and procedures.

- Plans for storage requirements and database growth, and scales infrastructure as needed.

- Collaborates with developers to optimize queries, stored procedures, and database design for applications.

- Must be a self-starter, strong leader, and able to work independently with little supervision.

**Requirements:**

- BS/BA degree and 8+ years of prior relevant DBA experience or Masters with 6+ years of prior relevant DBA experience; OR 4 years of experience in lieu of degree

- 4+ years' experience tuning Aurora PostgreSQL database performance and PL/pgSQL scripts to optimize performance

- 4+ years' experience as an AWS Aurora PostgreSQL DBA in a 24x7 environment managing multiple databases of over 70TB.

- Individual must have at least 4+ years' experience as an Oracle DBA in a 24x7 environment supporting databases of over 200TB

- Proficiency in tuning Oracle Databases and troubleshooting performance issues.

- Able to support on-call schedule and incident resolution.

- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Products (Word, Excel, Visio, & PowerPoint)

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- U.S. Citizen.

- Must be able to maintain and obtain a CBP Background Investigation prior to start

**Benefits:**

- Pay Range: $107,900.00 - $195,050.00

## Skills

### Required
- PostgreSQL
- Aurora PostgreSQL
- PL/pgSQL
- AWS
- Oracle
- Microsoft Office
- Agile

### Nice to have
- Migration of Oracle to Aurora PostgreSQL
- Generative AI
- CBP
- Java
- Struts
- Hibernate
- JavaScript
- Bootstrap
- Angular
- CI/CD
- SecDevOps
- Git

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