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MongoDB Database Administrator

SAIC

Ashburn, VA

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JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Access Control, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Automation, Background Investigation, Bash Scripting, Communication Skills, Computer Science, Data Analysis, Data Modeling, Data Recovery, Data Storage, Data Warehousing, Database Administration, Database Backup, Database Design, Database Programming Languages, Database Recovery, Debugging Skills, Disaster Recovery, Failover, Federal Government, Identify Issues, Information Technology & Information Systems, Information/Data Security (InfoSec), MongoDB, Network Operations Center, NoSQL, On Call, Oracle, Oracle Database, Performance Analysis, Performance Tuning/Optimization, Policy Implementation, Position of Public Trust, PostgreSQL, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Privacy Regulations, Problem Solving Skills, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Regulations, Relational Databases (RDBMS), Replication and Remote Mirroring, Scripting (Scripting Languages), Software Patches, System Integration (SI), Systems Engineering, Willing to Travel, Work From Home, Writing Skills
LOCATION
Ashburn, VA
POSTED
Today
Job ID: 2610698

Location: Ashburn, VA, US

Date Posted: 2026-03-26

Category: Information Technology

Subcategory: Database Admin

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: No

Minimum Clearance Required: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Public Trust

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_HYBRID

Description

SAIC is seeking a highly skilled and experienced senior-level Database Administrator (DBA) to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in managing and optimizing both Oracle and NoSQL databases. Project teams utilize Oracle RDS and AWS managed databases including Postgres and DocumentDB, and MongoDB, also hosted in AWS. This role requires a thorough understanding of the advantages of NoSQL databases such as the scalability, flexibility, and performance gains and the disadvantages compared to relational databases. The ideal candidate will also have hands-on experience with failover and recovery, backups, migration of on-premises databases to AWS, and proficiency with AWS services. The successful candidate should be passionate about ensuring database performance, availability, and security, and experienced in debugging complex challenges and handling data warehouses.

Job Responsibilities
  • Database Management: Administer, maintain, and implement permissions, policies and procedures for ensuring the secure connectivity and integrity of databases.
  • Performance Tuning: Monitor database performance, implement changes and apply new patches and versions when required to ensure optimal performance. Work closely with the application teams to optimize the application interaction with NoSQL.
  • Failover and Recovery: Design and execute database backup and recovery strategies, including failover planning and testing.
  • Migration and Upgrade: Lead migration projects from on-premises databases to AWS, relational databases to NoSQL, including planning, execution, and validation of database migrations and upgrades.
  • Security and Compliance: Ensure database security measures are in place, including access controls and audit logging. Comply with all applicable data privacy laws and regulations.
  • Data Warehousing: Manage and optimize AWS Redshift instances and other data warehousing solutions for scalable and efficient data storage and analysis.
  • Monitoring: Utilize AWS CloudWatch and other monitoring tools to ensure database health, performance, and to automate scaling and notifications.
  • Troubleshooting and Support: Provide support for complex database issues, including troubleshooting and resolving database integrity issues, performance issues, blocking and deadlocking issues, replication issues, log shipping issues, etc.


Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

Must have the ability to handle Oracle Prod issues and carry the Oracle Duty Phone on a rotational basis. The candidate must have solid NoSQL (DocumentDB and MongoDB) skills as more and more applications are leveraging NoSQL databases. Solid experience of migrating databases from on-prem to cloud is a must.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and at least 10 years of relevant experience.
  • Database Expertise: Proven experience as a DBA with expertise in Oracle and NoSQL databases (MongoDB).
  • AWS Managed Databases: Extensive experience with AWS DocumentDB database services.
  • Failover and Recovery: Solid experience in database failover, recovery procedures, and disaster recovery planning
  • Migration Experience: Demonstrated experience with migrating on-premises databases to AWS
  • Technical Skills: Proficient in MongoDB Query Language (MQL), database design, and data modeling. Familiarity with AWS CLI, SDKs, and CloudWatch.
  • Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills.


Desired Skills and Experience
  • Certifications: AWS or relevant database certifications (e.g., Oracle Certified Professional, AWS Associate Architect).
  • Scripting Skills: Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation of database tasks.
  • Monitoring Tools: Deep familiarity with database monitoring tools, especially AWS CloudWatch, for performance monitoring and alerting.
  • Enterprise Database Management: Experience with large enterprise database design, implementation, and optimization, for example, Oracle RDS on Exadata. Experience with Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC).
  • Experience with DocumentDB or MongoDB.
  • Experience with Big Query is a plus.
  • Master's degree (or higher) in computer science or related field is a plus.


Customer Requirements
  • Clearance - Ability to obtain and hold a public trust position and favorable suitability based on a CBP Background Investigation
  • Location - Hybrid with on-site (Ashburn, VA) visits 2-3 days per week and if a mission need. *This team utilizes an on-call schedule which may require travel to the datacenter site.



SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .

About the Company

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SAIC

SAIC is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator driving our nation's digital transformation. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in engineering, IT modernization, and mission solutions. Using our expertise and understanding of existing and emerging technologies, we integrate the best components from our own portfolio and our partner ecosystem to deliver innovative, effective, and efficient solutions that are critical to achieving our customers' missions. We are a team of 26,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.1 billion. For more information, visit saic.com.
COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
2013
WEBSITE
https://jobs.saic.com/

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