Oracle Database Administrator (DBA)

Overview

DecisionPoint seeks a Database Administrator (Oracle) to support daily database operations, maintenance, tuning, and security within a large federal and DoD-aligned mission environment. This role ensures reliable performance of Oracle database systems across development, test, staging, and production environments while maintaining security, availability, and compliance with DoD requirements.

The Oracle DBA is responsible for monitoring, backup execution, schema updates, indexing optimization, and troubleshooting operational issues that impact mission-critical applications and data flows.

This position is fully remote.

Duties & Responsibilities

The Oracle Database Administrator will:

• Perform daily Oracle database administration, monitoring, maintenance, and health checks.

• Develop and manage maintenance plans, job schedules, and database housekeeping routines.

• Execute and validate backups, restores, and recovery procedures to ensure data integrity.

• Apply patching, version updates, and configuration changes across environments.

• Support schema updates, index optimization, table maintenance, and data structure enhancements.

• Troubleshoot performance issues, query bottlenecks, and system errors across dev/test/prod environments.

• Maintain auditing, logging, encryption, and access controls in accordance with DoD cybersecurity requirements.

• Document database configurations, operational processes, and environment baselines.

• Collaborate with development teams to validate stored procedures, queries, and database interactions.

• Coordinate with cybersecurity staff to remediate vulnerabilities, STIG findings, and compliance gaps.

• Support release cycles, refreshes, data migrations, and environment synchronization activities.

• Provide recommendations for performance improvement, storage utilization, and operational efficiency.

Qualifications

Clearance Requirement

Must hold an active Top Secret clearance, supported by a Tier 5 background investigation.

Education (Required)

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Database Administration, or a related discipline.

Experience (Required)

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Oracle database administration.

• Experience performing daily maintenance, patching, tuning, and operational monitoring.

• Experience supporting database operations across development, test, and production environments.

• Experience with indexing, query performance troubleshooting, and schema management.

• Experience applying DoD security requirements to Oracle database systems.

Technical Knowledge (Required)

• Strong expertise with Oracle Database technologies and administration tools.

• Knowledge of RMF controls, STIGs, encryption, and access control implementation.

• Proficiency in SQL, PL/SQL, indexing strategies, and query optimization.

• Familiarity with backup and recovery tools, RMAN, and Oracle data utilities.

• Experience with monitoring platforms and performance analytics.

Technical Knowledge (Preferred)

• Experience with IL5 cloud-hosted database environments.

• Experience supporting CI/CD or DevSecOps workflows involving database changes.

• Familiarity with other relational database platforms.

Certifications

Required:

• CompTIA Security+

• Oracle Database Administrator certification (OCA, OCP, or equivalent)

Preferred:

• AWS Database Specialty

• CISSP or CCSP

Skills

• Strong diagnostic and troubleshooting ability for Oracle database issues.

• Clear written and verbal communication skills for collaborating with technical teams.

• Excellent attention to detail, accuracy, and documentation discipline.

• Ability to manage multiple tasks across distributed environments.

• Commitment to secure, stable, and optimized database operations.

Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

• EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
• Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.
• Authorization to Share Resume and Personal Information: By expressing your interest and submitting your resume for this position, you authorize DecisionPoint Corporation to share your resume, as well as personal information included on the resume, with its subsidiaries, affiliates and teaming partners for the purpose of considering you for this position and other available positions requiring comparable skills, education and experience. Should DecisionPoint Corporation. or its affiliates and teaming partners wish to initiate pre-employment discussions, you will be asked to complete an employment application and related employment documents.

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