Database Administrator (Remote- Top Secret Clearance) San Diego Description Please note: This role is contingent upon a contract award. While it is not an immediate opening, we are actively conducting interviews and extending offers in anticipation of the award. ICF is a mission-driven company filled with people who care deeply about improving the lives of others and making the world a better place. Our core values include Embracing Difference; we seek candidates who are passionate about building a culture that encourages, embraces, and hires dimensions of difference. Our Engineering and Emerging Technologies (EET) team works side by side with customers to articulate a vision for success, and then make it happen. We know success doesn't happen by accident. It takes the right team of people, working together on the right solutions for the customer. We are looking for a seasoned DBA who will be a key driver to make this happen. We are seeking a skilled DBA to support daily operations of IT systems for a government program. You will manage and optimize production databases supporting the DoD MCC JAS program, ensuring high availability, performance, and data integrity. Job Location: Remote role – must be performed within the United States and support U.S. Eastern Time Zone hours. ICF monitors employee work locations, restricts access from foreign IP addresses, and prohibits the use of personal VPNs. Responsibilities:

• Monitor database performance and implement tuning strategies.
• Ensure data integrity, backups, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Collaborate with development teams on schema design, query optimization, and data modeling (OLTP/OLAP).
• Support database security and access controls in compliance with DoD standards.
• Maintain documentation and change control procedures.
• Lead database upgrades and migrations.
• Automate routine tasks (backups, patching, user provisioning) with versioned scripting and CI/CD.
• Participate in on-call rotation, incident response, root-cause analysis, and capacity planning.
• Integrate monitoring and alerting.

Required Qualifications:

• Candidate must have an active DoD Top Secret Clearence.
• Security+ or equivalent certification required.
• 7+ years of experience as a DBA in federal environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's in CS/IT/Engineering or equivalent experience; advanced degree a plus.
• Vendor certifications (AWS, Oracle, Microsoft, etc).
• Expertise in SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL.
• Experience with cloud-based DB solutions (AWS RDS, Azure SQL).
• Strong understanding of database security and compliance requirements.
• Hands-on performance tuning (query tuning, indexing strategy, stats maintenance, I/O and memory pressure analysis).
• Solid understanding of networking, OS fundamentals (Windows/Linux), and storage concepts relevant to databases.
• Scripting ability in at least one: PowerShell, Bash, or Python. ​
• Experience hardening and accrediting systems under DoD RMF.
• Familiarity with data integration & messaging (ETL/ELT tools, CDC, Kafka), and supporting analytics/BI workloads.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and config management (Terraform, Ansible) for DB infrastructure and parameter baselines.
• Experience building database observability: custom metrics, log pipelines, SIEM integration (Splunk/Elastic).
• Prior work in FedRAMP IL4/IL5 or impact-level cloud environments.

Working Place: San Diego, California, United States Company : ESR Healthcare Remote Skills: Access Control, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Analysis Skills, Ansible, Apache Kafka, Bash Scripting, Business Intelligence, Capacity Management, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Change Control, Cloud Computing, Communication Skills, Configuration Management, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Data Modeling, Data Quality, Data Recovery, Database Administration, Database Backup, Database Design, Database Extract Transform and Load (ETL), Database Optimization, Database Technology, Disaster Recovery, DoD Top Secret Clearance, Documentation, Emerging Technology, Government, Healthcare, High Availability, IP (Internet Protocol), Incident Response, Information Technology & Information Systems, Information/Data Security (InfoSec), Input/Output, Interviewing Skills, Linux Operating System, Memory Hardware, Metrics, Microsoft Product Family, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Windows Azure, Microsoft Windows Operating System, Military/DoD Standards, OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing), On Call, Operating Systems, Operational Support, Operations, Oracle, Oracle Database, Performance Analysis, Performance Management, Performance Tuning/Optimization, PostgreSQL, Production Support, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Query Optimization, Regulatory Compliance, Root Cause Analysis, SQL (Structured Query Language), Scripting (Scripting Languages), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Software Patches, Splunk, System Operations, Top Secret Clearance, Transaction Processing/Management, United States Department of Defense (DoD), VPN (Virtual Private Network), Windows PowerShell ESRhealthcare and EXEC STAFF RECRUITERS