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EDB Postgres Database Administrator

Job in Radford, Montgomery County, Virginia, 24141, USA
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Full Time, Part Time position
Listed on 2026-01-16
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Database Administrator, Systems Administrator
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Company

Johnson Technology Systems Inc. (JTSI)

Job Title

EDB Postgres Database Administrator

Location

Radford, VA – Onsite 2 days per week minimum (telework 3 days tranz)

Time Zone

US EST

Citizenship / Clearance

US persons, DOD Secret Clearance required

Required Certifications
  • CompTIA Security+ (or equivalent DoD 8140 foundational)
  • EDB Postgres Database certification (for example, EDB Postgres Essentials, EDB Postgres Advanced, EDB Postgres Distributed Essentials)
Description of Project and Tasks

This database administrative position will challenge the candidate to expand his/her skillsets and learn new technologies in a fast‑paced and friendly environment.

Job Responsibilities
  • The successful candidate remains up to date on vendor technologies and recommended best practices in a highly available, enterprise environment. The successful candidate for this position will be solid in EDB Postgres and familiar with MySQL and Oracle.
  • This position typically works 40 hours per week with a blend of onsite and telework. Currently, onsite work is required 2 days a week and telework is 3 days a week.
Required Skills
  • Five or more years of experience (including design, installation, configuration, administration, upgrades, tuning, backup and recovery, and troubleshooting) with EDB Postgres in a Unix/Oracle Enterprise Linux environment on virtual servers; similar skills are desired for MySQL and Oracle
  • Experience with EDB Postgres 14.19 or higher
  • Experience utilizing DoD and commercial certificates (rather than self‑signed certificates) for logins
  • Experience with PEM (Postgres Enterprise Manager)
  • Experience using Ora2pg to migrate Oracle databases to EDB Postgres
  • Strong backup and recovery experience using Barman (Backup and Recovery Manager)
  • Strong performance tuning experience for both transactional and analytical workloads
  • Strong troubleshooting experience utilizing database and operating system capabilities
  • Strong shell scripting experience in PL/pgSQL
  • Strong bash shell scripting experience in Unix/Oracle Enterprise Linux
  • Strong system administration experience
  • Strong documentation skills
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Participation in a twitter 24x7 on‑call support rotation
Preferred Skills
  • Databases: EDB Postgres 14.19 or higher, MySQL 8 or higher, Oracle 19c or higher
  • EDB Postgres replication experience
  • Experience with Kerberos
  • Experience with Apache Tomcat
  • Shell scripting experience in MySQL, and Oracle PL/SQL
  • Working knowledge of DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) and Security
Requirements Guides (SRG)
  • Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Seniority Level
  • Mid-Senior level
Employment Type
  • Full‑time
Job Function

Information Technology

Industries

Software Development

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