Database Administrator (DBA)

Ellington Solutions is seeking out qualified candidates that will:

• Leverage your expertise with databases such as Microsoft SQL Server, MariaDB, and Postgres to develop and maintain bash scripts for dumping and loading databases.
• Carry out various maintenance tasks, including rebuilding indexes and updating statistics.
• Execute basic database dumping and loading, manage transaction logging, and optimize performance.
• Ensure the integrity, security, availability, and compliance of databases with business processes throughout their lifecycle.
• Implement disaster recovery measures, conduct performance analysis and tuning, and maintain and monitor indexes.
• Assess and propose database management system products.
• Administer database and application servers.
• Organize and format data for optimal query performance and storage efficiency.

Requirements

The qualified candidate will have:

• U.S. Citizenship (Required)
• Active TS/SCI+FSP Clearance (Required)
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field from an accredited college or university.
• Alternatively, four (4) years of additional experience as a Database Administrator on relevant projects may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree.
• Seven (7) years of experience as a Database Administrator (DBA) in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
• Experience in performing basic database dump and load operations, transaction logging, and performance tuning.
• Proficient in running SQL agent jobs for MSSQL and experienced in software installation on Linux platforms.
• Familiarity with Redhat Ansible.
• Ability to manage user identities via Active Directory and Centify.
• Utilize Salt for deploying configuration files to end nodes and conducting various interrogations (Ping, DNS).
• Capability to request, renew, and install/update PKI certificates, including converting from pkcs12 to various formats.
• Basic knowledge of nLyte, the NEO data center inventory management application.
• Experience with NIFI for automating data flows between software systems.
• Knowledge of Ranger/Docker for configuring containerized applications, primarily for distributed software environments.
• Expertise in Kubernetes for configuring open-source platforms for container orchestration, including application packaging/scheduling, load balancing, storage orchestration, and advanced logging/monitoring/debugging.
• Experience with Wazuh, Nxlog, Saltstack for deploying configuration files to end nodes and conducting various interrogations, along with GIT and HAProxy as a load balancer.
• Proficient with Vcenter/Vsphere for building virtual machines.