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Postgres Database Administrator (HYBRID)AMERICAN SYSTEMS

  • Not-remote
  • Full-time
  • Total comp
    Expected total yearly pay with bonus and equity at target, including any base pay.
  • Salary
  • Mechanicsburg, PA

Job Summary

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal government contractor supporting national priority programs through our strategic solutions in the areas of Information Technology, Test & Evaluation, Engineering & Analysis, and Training. Must be able to work in Mechanicsburg, PA 2x per week.



As a Postgres Database Administrator with AMERICAN SYSTEMS you will have the opportunity to do the following: Provide Subject Matter Expert (SME) support for Oracle and PostgreSQL in a traditional on-premise VMware environment and an AWS Cloud environment.

  • ProvidePostgreSQL database management and life cycle support for a collaborative engineering tools environment.
  • Implement the conversion of existing databases to meet new release requirements.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of database management technology and investigates problems and inefficiencies in a well-established data base environment.
  • Determine the impact of new or revised software on system operations and applications.
  • Investigate factors such as amount of storage space consumed, access times, frequencies of reads and writes, and problems encountered by other application and systems programmers using the DBMS software.
  • Evaluate and determines alternatives, and initiates corrective action to recover/restore data and return system back to normal operations.
  • Administer day-to-day database operation and maintenance in an environment in which the system software is typically available from vendors and widely used.
  • Ensure the database efficiently collects, stores, and processes data.
  • Run utility routines/programs and investigate when reports indicate a decline in computer performance.
  • Develop and maintain security procedures to guard against unauthorized intrusion into databases.
  • Develop procedures and recommend methods to insure rapid access to all data.
  • Analyze use of archived data and develop ways to insure optimum use of existing systems.
  • Provide assistance to programmers/analysts in program development, testing, and implementation of modified programs.

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