Database Administrator # of Openings: Database Administrator (DBA) Aurora, CO (Relocation assistance available) Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Active Top Secret/SCI with a poly More about your role: At NASK, we’re growing, building great teams, and doing exciting work. What you will be doing: Database management and maintenance: implement, manage, and maintain various production MongoDB sharded databases across AWS environments. Monitor database performance, implement changes and improvements, and provide strategic solutions that align with business requirements. Design and implement database backup, recovery, and failover strategies to ensure optimal data protection and availability. Collaborate within the team on capacity planning, disk space management, redundancy/HA, change management, and overall database operations mentor team members with less advanced database skills. Create detailed documentation for all database design decisions, optimization improvements, and production issues. Required Qualifications: 5 years of database & software development experience. Expert understanding of data modeling, index analysis & optimization in No SQL databases (MongoDB preferred) Expert understanding of data modeling, index analysis & optimization in SQL databases (PostgreSQL preferred) Expert understanding of replication, sharding, partitioning, and performance tuning Working experience with source code version control (Git). Preferred Qualifications: AWS and/or Terraform, experience with other Government clouds C software development Experience with Golang software development Security requirements: Active TS/SCI w/poly Our Tech Stack: Terraform/Terragrunt Who we are: Our people are the core of who we are and what we do. NASK has two decades of experience delivering innovative solutions to the tough technical challenges facing our partners in the Intelligence and Defense communities. Our subject matter experts collaborate with junior developers and analysts, bringing fresh approaches to solve the toughest mission problems. At NASK, our employees are the backbone of our company, so we provide unsurpassed benefits and work life balance. Employees are provided with individual offices and collaboration spaces to foster individual and team success. We have a casual yet professional work environment Employees work hard, and NASK offers a competitive benefits package that equates to 50% on top of your annual base salary. This is split between a tax qualified profit sharing retirement plan that NASK contributes to (up to allowable IRS limits) and a cafeteria plan for benefits. For a comprehensive overview of our benefits, visit the benefits tab under our careers page: https://nask.world/company/careers/ Compensation: The salary range is $135,000 to $155,000; however, NASK Incorporated considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to the role and responsibilities, work experience, education, training, certifications, geographic location, and market data. These are general guidelines and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Please be aware that many of our positions require the ability to obtain or maintain a U.S security clearance which requires U.S citizenship. EEO Statement: **NASK provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Apply for this Position Go back to the job list