Senior SQL DBA Administrator - AWS

You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm investigate ideas outside of your role and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
This is a managed service provider (MSP) for Army IT systems and we support enterprise applications owners in migrating their systems into AWS and also provide sustainment services to support their applications. This position is for a Microsoft SQL Server DBA to provide database administration capabilities to Army cloud customers. Serve as a SQL Server DBA subject matter expert (SME) for evaluating customer’s current application database architecture and develop a new architecture to be deployed in Azure and utilizing cloud native database services (PaaS vs IaaS)

• Collaborate with internal and external parties to transform high-level technical objectives into comprehensive technical requirements.
• Build and deploy database infrastructure for customer applications
• Provide sustainment of customer database systems to include installation patching upgrades database schema administration exports/imports backup administration and hardening of the database systems.
• Assist with identifying and planning potential new cloud services features and capabilities.
• Make recommendations for improvements to security scalability manageability and performance across a wide variety of network storage compute and database technologies.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
*** This position requires active DoD Secret Security clearance or higher (US Citizenship is required) ***

Required Skills:

• Mid to senior level SQL Server DBA experience in a commercial cloud environment with strong understanding of network storage server and application technologies
• Experience with enterprise features of SQL Server: Always on Availability Groups SSRS Microsoft clustering.
• Experience effectively managing multiple large-scale projects with strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong knowledge of automation concepts tools and scripting languages (PowerShell Ansible Terraform Puppet Chef etc.)
• Working knowledge of DoD STIGs and IA Vulnerability Management (IAVM)

Required Certifications:
Security+ (Or equivalent IA cert) and computing environment certification (i.e. MCSA – SQL Server etc.).
AWS Certification

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• 3-5 years of experience in cloud security engineering with a focus on RHEL and SAP environments
• Expertise in building and maintaining RHEL images specifically for SAP applications
• 3+ years of experience with developing cloud system requirements (AWS and Azure) and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Ansible
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (GitLab Jenkins)
• In-depth understanding of security practices including identity and access management encryption and network security (NIST and CIS Security frameworks)
• Experience with STIGs and their application in securing systems
• Experience in using Nessus for vulnerability scanning and remediation.

The ITES-3 education/experience requirements:
Intermediate level LCAT – Bachelors +5 or Associates +7
Senior level LCAT – Masters +10 or Bachelors +12