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$96.8K–$155K against $127K–$190K, the middle half of what similar US postings state.
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Database Administrator, Mid
Colorado Springs, CO
Live, first seen by us 30 days ago- Pay
USD 96,800–154,880/year — pay source
Pay Transparency Statement AMERICAN SYSTEMS is committed to pay transparency for our applicants and employee-owners. The salary range for this position is USD $96,800.00/Yr. - USD $154,880/Yr. Actual compensation will be determined based on several factors permitted by law. AMERICAN SYSTEMS provides for the welfare of its employees and their dependents through a comprehensive benefits program by offering healthcare benefits, paid leave, retirement plans, insurance programs, and education and training assistance. EEO Statement EEO Race/Sex/Disability Status/Veteran Status
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- Employment
Full-time — employment source
Employment type in the employer’s posting: FULL_TIME
From the employer’s posting
Before you apply
- Work authorization
- Citizens only
Active TS/SCI Clearance
What you’ll work on
Full postingAdminister and sustain mission databases, including backups, recovery, and access controls
Tune performance of indexes and databases
Audit and amend data in systems using SQL commands
Oversee scheduling of backups and database replication across SQL Servers and remote sites
Review database designs and recommend enhancements
From the employer’s posting
Administers and sustains mission-data and database services supporting Red LAN applications, data storage, data integrity, access controls, backups, performance, and recovery.
Conducts performance tuning of indexes and databases in general.
audits, modifies, and amends data in systems using SQL commands.
Oversees the scheduling of database projects, database and transaction log backups, notifications, and database replication between multiple SQL Servers and remote sites.
Reviews database design and integration of systems, provides backup recovery and makes recommendations regarding enhancements and/or improvements.
What you’ll bring
All qualificationsCore experience
- 5-7 years of related work experience
- Bachelor's degree
- U.S. citizenship
- Active TS/SCI clearance
- Meet DoD 8140 qualification requirements
Qualification wording
5-7 years of related work experience
Bachelor's degree
U.S. Citizenship.
Active TS/SCI Clearance
Must meet DoD 8140 qualification requirements
Education & alternatives
Qualifications - Bachelor's degree - 5-7 years of related work experience
Tools in this posting
- SQL
Source — Tool mentions in context
- Administers a variety of database systems. - Develops and enforces database administration and user standards and procedures; audits, modifies, and amends data in systems using SQL commands. - Oversees the scheduling of database projects, database and transaction log backups, notifications, and database replication between multiple SQL Servers and remote sites.
- Develops and enforces database administration and user standards and procedures; audits, modifies, and amends data in systems using SQL commands. - Oversees the scheduling of database projects, database and transaction log backups, notifications, and database replication between multiple SQL Servers and remote sites. - Reviews technical designs, reports, documentation, and other materials produced by staff; creates and maintains high-level reporting systems; researches and implements new database and online technology.
Posting record
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- Live
- First seen by us
- Oct 5, 202630 days ago
- Recorded sightings
- 101
- Last seen by us
- Nov 5, 2026
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How this job compares
Time since we first saw it
Day 30
Similar jobs usually come down between day 6 and day 54.
At American Systems, jobs usually come down by about day 41.
From 11,069 similar postings that came down, and 31 of American Systems’s. Coming down is not always a hire.
American Systems is hiring
4 open jobs
Open jobs by the week we first saw them, last 12 weeks.
- Hiring has slowed
- Takes jobs down at a usual pace
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Demand for Data Engineer roles
New Data Engineer postings at the employers we follow are up 8% over the last 5 weeks compared with the 5 before.
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About the role
We file this job under Data Engineer, by the work the posting describes.
Data engineers build and run the pipelines that copy data out of apps and outside services into a warehouse or lake, and fix them when a source changes or a load fails.
Expect SQL, Python, a cloud platform, a scheduler such as Airflow, and often tools for large data such as Spark or Kafka.
An analytics engineer works one step later, turning the raw data a data engineer lands into clean tables people can query.
US government figures for database architects
- Median yearly pay, May 2025
- $139,500
- Expected change, 2025 to 2035
- 9.4% more jobsagainst 3.5% for all jobs
The government has no code for data engineers, so these figures are for the closest group, database architects, which includes data integration and data warehousing specialists.
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025) and Employment Projections (2025 to 2035). Occupation code 15-1243.
Job description
Overview
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, Program Mission Support, Engineering & Analysis, and Training.
Responsibilities
- Administers and sustains mission-data and database services supporting Red LAN applications, data storage, data integrity, access controls, backups, performance, and recovery. Supports schema/data validation, structured-data handling, data transformation, and interface dependencies for Bifrost, customer additions, and other approved mission-data changes.Conducts performance tuning of indexes and databases in general.
- Reviews database design and integration of systems, provides backup recovery and makes recommendations regarding enhancements and/or improvements.
- Maintains security and integrity controls.
- Formulates policies, procedures, and standards relating to database management, and monitors transaction activity and utilization.
- May develop stored procedures and/or triggers.
- Administers a variety of database systems.
- Develops and enforces database administration and user standards and procedures; audits, modifies, and amends data in systems using SQL commands.
- Oversees the scheduling of database projects, database and transaction log backups, notifications, and database replication between multiple SQL Servers and remote sites.
- Reviews technical designs, reports, documentation, and other materials produced by staff; creates and maintains high-level reporting systems; researches and implements new database and online technology.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- 5-7 years of related work experience
- U.S. Citizenship.
- Active TS/SCI Clearance
- Must meet DoD 8140 qualification requirements
- Must have one or more of the following certifications:
Pay Transparency Statement
AMERICAN SYSTEMS is committed to pay transparency for our applicants and employee-owners. The salary range for this position is USD $96,800.00/Yr. - USD $154,880/Yr. Actual compensation will be determined based on several factors permitted by law. AMERICAN SYSTEMS provides for the welfare of its employees and their dependents through a comprehensive benefits program by offering healthcare benefits, paid leave, retirement plans, insurance programs, and education and training assistance.EEO Statement
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- Pay
Pay Transparency Statement AMERICAN SYSTEMS is committed to pay transparency for our applicants and employee-owners. The salary range for this position is USD $96,800.00/Yr. - USD $154,880/Yr. Actual compensation will be determined based on several factors permitted by law. AMERICAN SYSTEMS provides for the welfare of its employees and their dependents through a comprehensive benefits program by offering healthcare benefits, paid leave, retirement plans, insurance programs, and education and training assistance. EEO Statement EEO Race/Sex/Disability Status/Veteran Status
- Location & working pattern
Colorado Springs, CO
- Develops and enforces database administration and user standards and procedures; audits, modifies, and amends data in systems using SQL commands. - Oversees the scheduling of database projects, database and transaction log backups, notifications, and database replication between multiple SQL Servers and remote sites. - Reviews technical designs, reports, documentation, and other materials produced by staff; creates and maintains high-level reporting systems; researches and implements new database and online technology.
- Work authorization
- 5-7 years of related work experience - U.S. Citizenship. - Active TS/SCI Clearance
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