Database Administrator Master

At Significance, we believe the best results come from investing in great people. As a woman-owned consulting firm supporting federal civilian and Department of Defense customers, we bring together talented professionals who are passionate about solving complex challenges and making a meaningful impact.

• Minimum 8 years of hands-on Oracle E-Business Suite Application Experience
• Administer the full landscape - Development, QA/Test, UAT, Training, COOP/Disaster Recovery, and Production - under a formal Instance Management Plan.

Database administration across all environments:
• Perform backups, restores, and instance overlay and refresh across all environments.
• Install and configure databases; manage security controls; harden the database tier.
• Tune and monitor performance; manage tablespaces; assure data integrity.
• Maintain custom and core database tables in the Development and Test environments.
• Run security scans in Development and Test and provide regular analysis and findings to customers.
Performance, capacity, and availability
• Size and optimize the system against anticipated workload to prevent degradation in responsiveness and capacity.
• Track and report performance metrics under the Quality Control Plan and the Monthly Status Report.
• Monitor and manage business-critical nightly batch processing.
• Support system availability against the contract uptime requirement, excluding scheduled outages for planned deployments.
Patch management and change control
• Apply Oracle quarterly Critical Patch Updates and Patch Set Updates at least quarterly, or sooner on emerging threats or critical advisories.
• Brief customer on each CPU/PSU release: release date, covered vulnerabilities, applicability to systems, and recommended actions.
• Support the database sections of the Final Release Plan and the Detailed Deployment Plan, delivered 15 business days before production deployment, plus post-deployment monitoring and stabilization.
Infrastructure, resilience, and recovery
• Administer the Oracle middle tier: install Middleware products, deploy application processes, harden middleware, and manage SSL.
• Execute backup, restore, and media management: automated backup, backup encryption, on-site and off-site media access control, and daily secure off-site transfer to meet the Recovery Point Objective.
• Support COOP and Disaster Recovery
Interfaces and escalation support
• Provide database-side support to the internal and external interfaces, including AMS, GrantSolutions, the Payment Management System, ETS2/Go.Gov, SAM, NFC, Treasury HRConnect/HR Works, the Secure Payment System, G-Invoicing, the Trust Fund Interface, CARS, CIRA, IPP, the QuickPay mailbox and Tungsten MarkView, Data Act Broker, FPDS-NG, the Citibank Purchase Card interface, and the DOL internal interfaces (ETA/OJC UMS, Mail-Rent-Security, EMPS, OWCP CRS, DBC DEBS, BLS MIS, BLS ATRA).
• Serve as the database subject matter expert for Tier 2 and Tier 3 escalations that cannot be resolved through the user interface.
Security, privacy, and audit
• Analyze and resolve vulnerabilities found in automated or manual scans and close the associated POA&M items.
• Provide database-tier evidence and technical input to the ATO documentation
• Enforce separation of duties with the DOL User Access Team, keep administrator, developer, auditor, and user roles distinct, and ensure privileged activity is logged and monitored.
• Participate in periodic access reviews and internal audits.
Governance, transition, and documentation
• Prepare and present database and asset updates
• Contribute to the Instance Management Plan, Configuration Management Plan, Patch Management Plan, Asset Management Plan, and Contingency Plan.

• Hands-on experience with Oracle EBS, Oracle Analytics Server, Tungsten MarkView and Capture, REST APIs supporting custom screens, a ReactJS custom UI framework, and PIV-card Single Sign-On integrated with Azure.
• Experience authoring or maintaining Authority to Operate artifacts for a Federal financial system.
• Storage Area Network design, configuration, utilization monitoring, and redundancy experience.
• Direct database-side experience with one or more interfaces: Treasury G-Invoicing Invoice Processing Platform (IPP), CARS, CIRA, Secure Payment System (SPS), Data Act Broker, FPDS-NG, SAM, NFC payroll, HHS GrantSolutions and PMS, ETS2 and the GSA Go.Gov migration, Acquisition Management System (AMS), and the Citibank Purchase Card interface.
• Experience using Oracle Projects, or Oracle Projects accounting structures.
• Experience supporting GTAS, DATA Act, Treasury Report on Receivables, Federal Financial Report, Annual Financial Report, and financial statement reporting cycles from the database layer.
• Automation and scripting proficiency (Shell, Perl, Python) for monitoring, health checks, and change migration.