Database Administrator at SMS Data Products Group in Sumter, SC

Overview:

 

As a dynamic systems integrator, SMS offers proven solutions in engineering, operations, cybersecurity, and digital transformation. With expertise in modernizing and optimizing legacy infrastructure and systems, ensuring operational efficiency, and designing, implementing, and managing secure environments, SMS supports business and mission goals with proficiency, quality, and integrity.

 

SMS has been serving the advanced information technology needs of the federal government since 1976, delivering talented teams and innovative, cost-effective solutions and services to support our customers’ missions for more than 45 years. SMS is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with offices and on-site operations at customer locations throughout the United States. For additional information on SMS, visit www.sms.com.

 

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Responsibilities:

• Design and deploy database architecture and systems infrastructure for the military IT systems.
• Create strategies for performing repetitive tasks such as data acquisitions, migrations, data recoveries and new database implementations.
• Provide IT support for the review, analysis, troubleshooting and repair of database issues.
• Define data requirements for database design and implement policies that lead to corporate solutions.
• Establish guidelines for security, maintenance, utilization, and business continuity.
• Lead efforts in performance tuning and optimization needed to maintain customer applications.
• Create documentation that provides guidelines in regards to maintenance tasks, policies and procedures.
• Perform all routine scheduled database maintenance activities.
• Work with database vendors as required to resolve database access and performance issues.
• Perform analysis for collaboration of network / system needs and participate in planning, designing, upgrading and deployment of enterprise datacenter hardware and software using a project-based timeline.
• Provide General Networking support.
• Provide LAN support.
• Provide WAN Enterprise support.
• Provide technical and general O&M support as required.
• Provide documentation/reports support as required.
• Provide meetings/briefings support as required.
• Provide functional training support as required.
• Provide OCONUS deployment/TDY travel support as required.
• Provide CONUS TDY support as required.

Qualifications:

Qualifications

• BS. in related field and 3 or more years’ relevant IT experience or 5 or more years’ relevant IT experience.
• Database experience.
• Ability to apply service-oriented security architecture principles to meet organization’s confidentiality, integrity, and availability requirements.
• Ability to apply security architecture principles to meet organization’s confidentiality, integrity, and availability requirements.
• Must possess experience and demonstrate an understanding with installation of Microsoft Windows Server in Host and Compute Environments, and Windows Server using server images.
• Experience with implementation of storage solutions, high availability, Domain Name Systems (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), network connectivity and remote access solutions, core and distributed network solutions, advance network infrastructure, and maintain and monitor server environments.
• Must possess experience and demonstrate an understanding with managing Microsoft users and permissions, creating active directory domain services (AD DS) forests, designing server infrastructure, troubleshooting, protecting network, and user data.
• Must possess experience and demonstrate an understanding with C# and XAML, visual studio, arrays and collections, working with variables, managing program flow, asynchronous programming, decision an iteration statements, experience with the full life cycle of web applications, designing asynchronous solutions, working with classes, methods, and data validation.

Certifications

• SQL Certification
• ITIL Foundation V5 (candidate has up to 60 days to acquire ITIL Foundation certification)

Clearance 

• Must currently hold a DoD Secret level clearance or higher

 

 

SMS is a dynamic systems integrator established in 1976, delivering talented teams and innovative, cost-effective solutions and services to support our customers’ missions for more than 47 years. Our ability to hire and retain quality people in a rapidly evolving IT market is proven through our employee retention rate averaging over 3 years. At SMS, we place a high value on quality of service, customer satisfaction, and best-of-breed policies and practices, resulting in CMMI Level 3 certification and ISO registrations including 9001:2015, 20000-1:2018, and ISO/IEC 27001:2013. SMS is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with offices and on-site operations at customer locations throughout the United States. 

 

SMS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.