# Databricks AWS Database Administrator

**Company**: GDIT
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $111,155 - $150,385
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

GDIT has an opportunity for a dynamic and talented candidate to join our team supporting the Administrative Office of the US Courts (AOUSC).

The Databricks AWS Database Administrator will execute the following responsibilities:

- Provides production support for mission-critical database environments, including shift-based coverage and on-call support to ensure high availability and timely issue resolution.

- Monitors database performance, responds to incidents, troubleshoots production issues, and coordinates with development and operations teams to restore service quickly.

- Performs root-cause analysis for production defects and contributes to long-term stability improvements.

- Works within an Agile solution development environment with daily scrums, biweekly sprint planning and quarterly Program Increment planning.

- Develops operating standards and best practices, including performance, security, scalability, and maintainability.

- Ensures the proper definition, control, and coordination of data elements and standards, and the facilitation of efficient data relationships, systems integration, and physical structure.

- Participates in the development and implementation of database management policies and standards for efficient quality control and data administration.

- Collaborates with Product Owners and users to gather business requirements and define and maps them to technical requirements. Meets with agency leaders and stakeholders, collaborating with other consultants and program/agency personnel regarding the development of innovative data analysis techniques.

- Demonstrates ability to document complex workflow designs to present to project team and stakeholders.

- Demonstrates ability to work on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of multiple factors and frequently contributes to the development of new business strategy, ideas, and methods adhering to best practices within the Agile framework.

- Collects, analyzes, and interprets large amounts of data to help guide business decisions. Experience with using advanced statistical analysis, data mining, and predictive modeling techniques.

- Synthesizes disparate information and recognizes patterns and relationships across data; synthesizes large sets of data from multiple sources, develops data visualizations for the purpose of tracking key performance indicators and other critical metrics tied to program outcomes.

- Hosts and conducts peer reviews of the code of other developers on the team. Performs data validation and ensures data accuracy and integrity.

- Develops stored procedures, jobs, views, tables, and other database objects in SQL Server Management Studio.

- Designs and develops dimensional data models including start and snowflake schemas, fact and dimension tables, and enterprise data marts to support analytics, reporting and business intelligence solutions.

- Develops and deploys ETL packages using CI/CD pipeline. Exposure to core configuration management systems for version control.

- Works with Atlassian Suite of software development management tools.

- Indexes system and application logs in to the Splunk system monitoring application, then creates dashboards, alerts, and reports from those logs.

**REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS**

- At least seven (7+) years of Server database maintenance and database analysis or similar role.

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Programming, Computer Engineering or relevant computer-based major. Experience may be considered in lieu of degree.

- Experience supporting production database systems, including shift-based coverage and on-call responsibilities.

- Database or cloud certification preferred such as AWS Certified Database – Specialty, AWS Solutions Architect Associate/Professional, or equivalent industry-recognized cloud/database certification.

- Proficient experience with AWS database technologies such as Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and other AWS-managed data services.

- Experience with Databricks

- Experienced with completing database environment installation, configuration, on-going administration support.

- Demonstrated understanding of standard Data warehouse concepts.

- Adept with data modeling, data mapping, data flow diagrams and data marts.

- Previous experience architecting and implementing cloud-based database solutions on various platforms.

- Experience with Data migration from legacy on-premises database to multi-cloud/hybrid cloud platforms.

- Proven ability to spearhead and work independently, prioritize, and get things done.

- Strong analytical, technical, problem-solving skills.

- Excellent organization and time management skills and ability to identify priorities to accomplish a variety of tasks on schedule.

- Excellent written and oral communication skills and ability to work with people at every level. Comfortable writing down ideas, implementation plans and status reports.

**PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS**

- Experience creating and managing database reports, visualizations, and dashboards.

- Knowledge of court operations and law enforcement business data.

The likely salary range for this position is $111,155 - $150,385.

## Skills

### Required
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Cloud Computing
- Data Migrations
- Databricks
- AWS database technologies
- SQL Server Management Studio
- Atlassian Suite
- Splunk

### Nice to have
- Experience creating and managing database reports, visualizations, and dashboards
- Knowledge of court operations and law enforcement business data

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