AWS Database Administration at Peraton
UNAVAILABLE
$135,000–$216,000from the description
Jul 5, 2026
UNAVAILABLE
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A remote database administrator role supporting a government client in the Washington DC area, with occasional travel to a Quantico site. The work centers on designing, migrating, and optimizing relational and NoSQL database environments across AWS services, building data lakes and warehouses, automating database operations with Python or Bash, and maintaining security and disaster recovery solutions. An active Secret clearance and a current security certification are required.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Secret clearance · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $106,921 (middle half $81,361–$138,439). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The JD explicitly states the candidate must be local to the Washington DC Metro area and may need to travel to Quantico; however, per caller instruction, this is being treated as a fully-remote, national-pool role and no metro is recorded.
The experience requirement is tiered by degree: 8 years with a BS/BA, 6 with an MS/MA, 3 with a PhD, or 12 years with no degree. The minimum across all paths (3 years with a PhD) is not representative of the typical gate; 8 years (BS/BA path) is used as the overall years minimum as the most common baseline. No specific degree is hard-required since equivalent experience is accepted.
CompTIA Security+ and CISSP are listed as interchangeable certification requirements ('or'); captured as a single required skill with the other as an alternative.
Python and Bash are listed as interchangeable scripting options ('and/or'); captured as a single required skill with Bash as the alternative.
Amazon Athena appears in the responsibilities/context narrative alongside the other AWS services but is not called out separately in the qualifications block; marked as preferred to reflect that distinction.
The role title is 'Database Administrator' but the scope — designing data lakes, data warehouses, cloud migration architectures, and data models — overlaps significantly with 15-1243 Database Architects. 15-1242 is chosen as primary because the JD title and operational duties (backup, recovery, performance tuning, access controls) anchor it there, but the architect code is noted as a close runner-up.
Active Secret clearance is explicitly required as a hard gate.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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