Oracle DBA

Reston, VA, us on site Until 8/22/2026 First posted March 27, 2025 Last posted March 27, 2025
Job description

KTS (also known as "KOJU") is a woman-owned small business built upon a mind-set of delivering customer-centric solutions. Since our founding in 2009, we provide results that adhere to industry standards as well as ensuring state-of the art solutions that are in line with the growing changes in today’s technology. We are committed in providing innovative, practical and top quality results to ensure increased efficiency and a better tomorrow.

The Senior Database Administrator (DBA) will be responsible for the support, monitoring, performance tuning, and compliance of all Oracle systems. This includes the configuration, administration, maintenance, and documentation of mission-critical 24x7 production and non-production environments.

Support the Audit Remediation projects to upgrade and encrypt both production and non-production databases and scrub/mask production data used in non-production database environments.

Assist development teams with planning and implementations, including review/approval of database schema changes, routines, and query optimizations.

Develop standard operating procedures and best practices. Provide advice / recommendations on database architecture, design and implementation.

  • 5+ years or progressive experience in Oracle DB administration and development
  • Working experience with technical design and development of database modules and components
  • Working experience with coding, code review and testing
  • Proficient in SQL and PL/SQL coding and tuning
  • Support Oracle production and non-production databases including daily operations, backup and recovery, performance tuning and after hours on-call support.
  • Support the Audit Remediation projects to upgrade and encrypt both production and non-production databases and scrub/mask production data used in non-production database environments.
  • Assist development teams with planning and implementations, including review/approval of database schema changes, routines, and query optimizations.
  • Develop standard operating procedures and best practices. Provide advice / recommendations on database architecture, design and implementation.
  • Provide training, documentation for knowledge transfer to other database team members, and communicate both to non-technical users and to technical personnel on Database team and Applications teams.
  • Experience in database schema design including logical and physical database schema design for large scale, highly available and mission-critical application systems.
  • Experience designing and supporting the database components of software applications and understanding of entire application development life cycle.
  • Strong knowledge and experience with computer hardware including Servers, Networks, SANs, etc.
  • Proficiency with UNIX, Linux, shell scripting and cron jobs are desired.
  • Python scripting is a PLUS

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT:  MUST HAVE CURRENT ACTIVE TS/SCI CI Poly  (may consider Clearable candidates)

PLEASE RESPONSE WITH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

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About this role

Summary

Support, monitor, tune, and maintain Oracle databases in a mission-critical environment.

Job title

Oracle DBA

Experience level

5+ years

Industry

software

Location requirements

Reston, VA, on-site, no remote work specified

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

SQLPL/SQLOracle databasedatabase schema designbackup and recovery

Preferred skills

shell scriptingPython

Specializations

Oracledatabase administrationperformance tuningdatabase security
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Reston, VA, USA

On-site City
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