Database Administrator Role

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📍 Washington, District of Columbia, United StatesFull time

About this role

The work

Database Administrators keep database services available, recoverable, secure, observable, and appropriately sized. They manage the operational conditions under which database code and data run, from configuration and capacity to backups, upgrades, replication, and incident response.

The role includes establishing recovery procedures, testing restores and failover, monitoring workload health, investigating contention and resource pressure, coordinating patches, and administering privileged access. Performance work is evidence-based: Database Administrators connect application behavior, query plans, configuration, data growth, and infrastructure signals before changing a production system.

Managed database services automate parts of installation, patching, backups, scaling, and high availability, but they do not eliminate operational ownership. Teams still need people to set policy, configure services, validate recovery, tune workloads, manage access, plan version upgrades, interpret monitoring, and respond when service behavior does not match expectations.

What you may build

  • Monitoring, alerting, health checks, capacity forecasts, and operational dashboards.
  • Backup, restore, replication, failover, and disaster-recovery procedures with tested evidence.
  • Database configuration baselines, maintenance automation, patch plans, and upgrade runbooks.
  • Privileged-access controls, role administration, encryption configurations, and audit support.
  • Performance investigations and remediation plans spanning queries, indexes, configuration, storage, and compute.

Who you are

You are methodical when systems are healthy and steady when they are not. You prepare for failure before it happens, keep operational evidence current, and understand that an untested backup or undocumented recovery path is not a reliable control.

You make careful production changes, communicate risk and service impact clearly, and work well with developers, architects, security teams, cloud platform teams, and service owners. You know when to automate a repeatable task and when a change needs human review.

What you bring

  • Production administration experience with one or more relational database engines or managed database services.
  • Hands-on knowledge of monitoring, performance diagnosis, capacity management, backups, restores, replication, and high availability.
  • Experience planning patches, major-version upgrades, maintenance windows, rollback paths, and disaster-recovery tests.
  • Understanding of database access control, privileged operations, encryption, audit needs, and security hardening.
  • Scripting or automation skills for repeatable maintenance, evidence collection, health checks, and operational response.

What future openings may require

A future opening may require PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Amazon Relational Database Service, Azure SQL, or another specific engine or managed service. The operational model may range from self-managed infrastructure to platform-managed services, with different divisions of responsibility for patching, backups, availability, and scaling.

Workloads that support artificial intelligence (AI) may introduce vector indexes, bursty retrieval traffic, new retention patterns, or sensitive interaction data. Those are database workload characteristics to secure, monitor, tune, and recover. Model operations, AI evaluation, and AI-specific controls remain outside the Database Administrator's core ownership.

What future openings may require

A future opening may require PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Amazon Relational Database Service, Azure SQL, or another specific engine or managed service. The operational model may range from self-managed infrastructure to platform-managed services, with different divisions of responsibility for patching, backups, availability, and scaling.

Workloads that support artificial intelligence (AI) may introduce vector indexes, bursty retrieval traffic, new retention patterns, or sensitive interaction data. Those are database workload characteristics to secure, monitor, tune, and recover. Model operations, AI evaluation, and AI-specific controls remain outside the Database Administrator's core ownership.

Compensation, benefits, work location, and employment terms are set for each specific opening and will be stated with that opening

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Where is the Database Administrator Role position at OpenDataJobs located?
This Database Administrator Role role at OpenDataJobs is based in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. The position is listed as on-site or hybrid. Check the full job description or apply directly to confirm the work arrangement.
Is the Database Administrator Role role at OpenDataJobs full-time or part-time?
This is listed as a Full time position. It is posted as a Database Administrator Role role in the Roles department at OpenDataJobs.
Which team or department does the Database Administrator Role at OpenDataJobs belong to?
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When was the Database Administrator Role job at OpenDataJobs posted?
This Database Administrator Role position at OpenDataJobs was posted on Aug 8, 2026. Apply as soon as possible — early applications are often reviewed first.
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