BayNova is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Database Administrator to join our team in support of a mission-critical federal government client in a remote / work from home role.

This opportunity is for DBA technical lead in a hands‑on, day‑to‑day operations and maintenance role. The position will support the organization’s migration from SAP ASE to PostgreSQL, requiring strong expertise in PostgreSQL administration along with working knowledge of legacy SAP ASE / Sybase environments. Responsibilities include database monitoring, maintenance, replication, scripting, backup/recovery strategies, capacity planning, security, and performance tuning.

This role requires an excellent leader and team player who is central to daily project operations, maintenance, and oversight activities in a dynamic 24x7 customer‑facing environment.

Responsiblities

• Provide technical expertise in administering and maintaining production and non‑production PostgreSQL environments running on Linux.
• Lead efforts in database physical design, query optimization, indexing strategies, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Implement PostgreSQL replication, backup and recovery strategies, monitoring, and disaster‑recovery capabilities.
• Support schema conversions, data migrations, performance validation, and cutover activities as part of the ASE‑to‑Postgres migration.
• Evaluate PostgreSQL configuration parameters; recommend improvements and best practices for stability and performance.
• Maintain capacity planning, security controls, patching/upgrade strategy, and proactive database health assessments
• Provide working expertise for the existing ASE environment during the migration lifecycle.
• Troubleshoot ASE performance issues, analyze error logs, validate configuration parameters, support replication server processes, and assist with patching/upgrade activities as needed.
• Document ASE environment characteristics to support migration planning and knowledge transfer.
• Participate in decommissioning and transitioning ASE instances following successful migration milestones.
• Oversee daily ticket queue triage and assign work to other DBAs, providing mentorship and technical leadership to a small team.
• Coordinate activities with customer project management and contract project managers.
• Participate in complex customer/project meetings, needs assessments, technical design reviews, and solution feasibility discussions.
• Provide database architectural guidance and evangelize modern concepts and best practices across the team.