Senior SQL Server Database Administrator

Leidos seeks a Sr. SQL Database Administrator to lead the design, implementation, and optimization of complex SQL Server environments supporting mission-critical national security, health, and engineering programs. In this role, you will architect and maintain secure, highly available databases; tune performance; automate maintenance; and ensure data integrity and compliance with government and industry standards. You'll collaborate with engineers, developers, and cyber teams to design scalable solutions, support releases, troubleshoot production issues, and guide best practices while mentoring junior DBAs in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain secure, highly available SQL Server databases for mission-critical systems.
• Perform advanced performance tuning, query optimization, and capacity planning.
• Develop and manage backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies in compliance with policies.
• Automate routine administration tasks using Power
• Shell or similar scripting tools.
• Monitor databases, diagnose issues, and resolve incidents impacting availability or performance.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and cyber teams on database architecture and releases.
• Implement and enforce database security, access controls, and compliance with government standards.
• Support migrations and modernization efforts, including cloud and hybrid database solutions.
• Create and maintain documentation, standards, and runbooks for database environments.
• Mentor junior DBAs and contribute to continuous improvement of database practices.

Required Skills

• SQL Server administration
• Database performance tuning
• T-SQL development
• High availability/Always On
• Backup and recovery strategies
• Database security and hardening
• Replication and clustering
• Power
• Shell or automation scripting
• Monitoring and troubleshooting (e.g., Sentry
• One, Solar
• Winds)
• Cloud databases (Azure SQL, AWS RDS)