American Systems

Postgres Database Administrator (HYBRID)

Mechanicsburg, PA

Open 3 months, first seen by us 96 days ago

Pay: USD 125,000–155,000/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 $125,000.00/Yr. - USD $155,000/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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Before you apply

Work authorization: Citizens onlyMust have or be able to obtain a Secret Clearance

What you’ll work on

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Administer day-to-day PostgreSQL database operations and maintenance
Implement database conversions to meet new release requirements
Investigate performance declines, storage use and access times
Recover and restore data and return systems to normal operations
Develop security procedures to guard against unauthorized database intrusion

From the employer’s posting

Administer day-to-day database operation and maintenance

Implement the conversion of existing databases to meet new release requirements.

Investigate factors such as amount of storage space consumed, access times, frequencies of reads and writes

Evaluate and determines alternatives, and initiates corrective action to recover/restore data and return system back to normal operations.

Develop and maintain security procedures to guard against unauthorized intrusion into databases.

What you’ll bring

All qualifications

Core experience

Secret clearance (or ability to obtain one)
CompTIA Security+ required
4+ years of overall professional experience
Experience with Postgres and Oracle

Qualification wording

Must have or be able to obtain a Secret Clearance.

COMPTIA Security + required

4+ years of overall professional experience.

Experience with Postgres and Oracle.

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Open 3 monthsWe first saw this posting 96 days ago and it is still up. Roles open this long are often slow to fill or kept open to collect applications.

Status in our records: Live
First seen by us: Aug 1, 202696 days ago
Recorded sightings: 241
Last seen by us: Nov 5, 2026

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How this job compares

Pay

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$125K–$155K against $127K–$190K, the middle half of what similar US postings state.

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Time since we first saw it

Day 96

Up longer than most. Similar jobs usually come down between day 6 and day 54.

Well past American Systems’s usual: its jobs 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

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Responsibilities 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. - Provide PostgreSQL database management and life cycle support for a collaborative engineering tools environment.

- Must be able to work in Mechanicsburg, PA 2 times per week. - Experience with Postgres and Oracle. - COMPTIA Security + required

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. - Provide PostgreSQL database management and life cycle support for a collaborative engineering tools environment. - Implement the conversion of existing databases to meet new release requirements.

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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.

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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, Engineering & Analysis, and Training. Must be able to work in Mechanicsburg, PA 2x per week.

Responsibilities

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.

Provide PostgreSQL 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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Qualifications

Must have or be able to obtain a Secret Clearance.
Must be able to work in Mechanicsburg, PA 2 times per week.
Experience with Postgres and Oracle.
COMPTIA Security + required
4+ years of overall professional experience.

Pay Transparency Statement

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is committed to pay transparency for our applicants and employee-owners. The salary range for this position is USD $125,000.00/Yr. - USD $155,000/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.

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