Role Description We invite a Senior Database Administrator with deep MySQL expertise to join a large-scale database modernization initiative within a Java microservices platform. The project involves upgrading production databases to a newer MySQL version, with a strong focus on system reliability, performance, and minimal user disruption. In this hands-on, high-impact role, you’ll lead end-to-end database migration activities and work closely with engineering, DevOps, QA, and architecture teams to ensure a smooth and successful transition. This is a 6-month engagement with the possibility of extension based on project needs. - Lead a production MySQL migration, owning strategy and execution in a live, high-scale environment - Work on a business-critical platform with 100k users, where your decisions directly impact performance, reliability, and user experience - Collaborate across engineering, DevOps, QA, and architecture teams, solving complex, real-world migration challenges Qualifications - 5+ years of hands-on MySQL Database Administration experience in production environments - Proven experience with major MySQL version upgrades or large-scale database migrations - Strong expertise in MySQL internals (indexing, query optimization, partitioning, replication, and transaction behavior) - Strong SQL skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex performance issues - Hands-on experience administering Linux or other Unix-like OS, with scripting skills in Bash, Python, or similar languages - Experience with managed cloud database services (Cloud SQL, Amazon RDS, or equivalent) - Experience with production database operations (backup/restore, high availability, disaster recovery, failover) - Ability to plan and execute database changes with minimal downtime - Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across technical teams - Strong communication skills and ability to lead technical discussions Requirements - Good understanding of Java application environments, JDBC, and microservices database interactions - Experience migrating microservices-heavy platforms with shared and service-specific databases - Familiarity with MySQL 8.4 features and upgrade considerations - Experience with monitoring and observability tools for database operations - Knowledge of database security, encryption, and compliance best practices - Experience with automation, infrastructure-as-code, and database tooling - Experience as a Tech Lead for database modernization initiatives Key Responsibilities - Lead the end-to-end migration of MySQL databases from 5.7 to 8.4, ensuring system stability, performance, and minimal downtime - Analyze database schemas, queries, replication, and compatibility risks before and during migration - Review database interaction patterns across Java microservices, including JDBC, connection pooling, and transaction behavior - Design Cloud SQL migration strategies to minimize business disruption - Optimize database performance by analyzing slow queries, indexing, execution plans, locking, and storage behavior - Validate backup, recovery, replication, failover, and disaster recovery processes for production readiness - Define database monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, and health checks - Strengthen database security, access controls, encryption, patching, and compliance practices - Automate database operations using scripting and infrastructure tooling - Create migration runbooks, playbooks, and technical documentation Benefits - 30 paid days off per year — take them whenever you want for rest days, holidays, or personal time - 5 paid sick days, up to 60 days of medical leave, and 6 paid days off per year for major family events like weddings, funerals, or the birth of a child - Partially covered health insurance after the probation, plus a wellness bonus for gym memberships, sports nutrition, and similar needs after 6 months - Grow your skills with English lessons, online training, conferences, and the option to explore new career paths

IT - Database Administrator V Job Description: Job#: 3039273 Job Description: IT - Database Administrator V Location: Home, Arkansas (Teleworker) Role Overview This role leads the governance framework for a major program, establishing and maintaining governance processes, decision-making structures, and escalation procedures. The position involves designing, implementing, and operating the program's data governance ecosystem to ensure consistent, high-quality data across legacy and modernized platforms. The lead will oversee cross-organizational coordination, facilitate executive-level governance activities, and ensure clear accountability. Key Responsibilities - Lead the governance framework for the program, establishing and maintaining processes and decision-making structures. - Coordinate Executive Governance Board (EGB) meetings, including material preparation and tracking follow-up actions. - Manage cross-organizational issue resolution processes and facilitate stakeholder alignment. - Ensure governance alignment with collaboration requirements, program standards, and Federal data management expectations. - Develop and maintain the program's RACI Matrix within 30 days of onboarding. - Establish data governance controls, standards, and best practices for high-quality data. - Support the integration of legacy data environments into modernized platforms. - Develop and maintain governance documentation, operating procedures, and process workflows. - Facilitate enterprise-level data governance forums to resolve data quality and ownership issues. - Collaborate with technical, functional, and business teams to enforce data management policies. - Monitor governance process performance and recommend improvements. - Provide guidance on data quality, metadata, master data, and data lifecycle management. - Ensure compliance with program-specific data privacy, security, and records management requirements. Required Qualifications - 5 years of experience with a BS/BA degree; 3 years with an MS/MA; or a PhD. - Demonstrated experience leading data governance or enterprise data management initiatives within large, complex Federal or healthcare programs. - Experience developing and operationalizing governance frameworks and decision-making structures. - Strong understanding of specific data environments, data standards, and multi-contractor collaboration requirements. - Experience facilitating governance boards and executive-level forums. - Experience with governance across legacy systems and modernized platforms. - Knowledge of data management domains including metadata management, data quality, master data, and stewardship. - Experience working within Agile environments. - Ability to communicate effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders. - U.S. Citizenship is required. Preferred Qualifications - Experience working with Federal Healthcare programs. - Experience with enterprise governance tools or platforms (e.g., Collibra, Informatica Axon, or similar). - Knowledge of regulatory requirements such as HIPAA and Federal information security standards. - Experience with data architecture, data modeling, or enterprise information management. - Experience leading governance for programs undergoing modernization or cloud migration. - Relevant certifications (e.g., CDMP, Data Governance & Stewardship Professional certification, or similar). Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click here for more details. By applying for this job, you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from Everforth Apex and its affiliates, and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help. Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide. Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. UnitedHealthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Everforth Apex Systems. Employee Type: Contract Location: Home, AR, US Job Type: Pay Range: $60 - $70 per hour

Role Description The Connecticut Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS-CT) is expanding its CISS Analytics platform, designed to improve data sharing and analytics across criminal justice agencies. The system supports policy and legislative decisions related to crime and public safety. CJIS is seeking a SQL Database Developer/Administrator to support database development, performance optimization, and data transformation efforts while collaborating with business teams, infrastructure teams, and analytics stakeholders. Key Responsibilities - Design and review database schemas for application releases - Perform database maintenance (index rebuilds, table reorganization) - Support day-to-day database operations and troubleshooting - Optimize database performance and query efficiency - Assist with database upgrades and migration strategies - Administer multiple SQL Server databases across environments - Develop views, stored procedures, triggers, and functions - Work with Microsoft BI stack (SSRS, SSIS, SSAS) - Develop dashboards and reports using Power BI - Support ETL processes and data transformation - Participate in unit testing and assist with system/UAT testing - Ensure compliance with CJIS architecture standards including JRA, NIEM, NCSC, and GFIPM Qualifications - 5+ years experience with: - Microsoft SQL Server 2019/2022 (Development & Administration) - SSRS, SSIS, SSAS - ETL processes - Power BI dashboards - Writing Views, Triggers, Stored Procedures, Functions - Database performance tuning (indexes, constraints, keys) - Windows Server 2019/2022 - PowerShell or Windows shell scripting Requirements - Ability to work in a 24x7 on-call support environment if required - Must pass background investigation - Work collaboratively with criminal justice agencies and state partners

Role Description A Database Operations Support Engineer is responsible for the day‑to‑day stability, monitoring, and maintenance of database environments across development, QA, and production. The role ensures high availability, performance, security, and reliability of database systems while providing operational support, troubleshooting, and incident resolution. - Monitor database health, performance, backups, replication, and storage utilization across platforms (PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB, etc.). - Perform daily operational checks, log reviews, and alert triage to ensure system stability and uptime. - Troubleshoot and resolve incidents related to connectivity, performance degradation, failed jobs, backup issues, and resource bottlenecks. - Support deployments, schema changes, configuration updates, and environment refreshes. - Execute routine maintenance tasks including patching, upgrades, parameter tuning, and storage optimization. - Manage user access, roles, permissions, and security controls in compliance with organizational standards. - Maintain and validate backup and recovery processes, including participation in DR testing. - Collaborate with application, infrastructure, cloud, and network teams to resolve cross‑platform issues. - Document SOPs, runbooks, and operational workflows to ensure consistency and knowledge sharing. - Participate in on‑call rotation and provide timely incident response and root‑cause analysis. - Assist in automation efforts to reduce manual tasks and improve operational efficiency. - Provision, configure, and maintain AWS RDS instances (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle). - Monitor RDS performance insights, CloudWatch metrics, storage autoscaling, and connection thresholds. - Manage clusters, replicas, failovers, and parameter groups. - Administer RDS backups, snapshots, cross‑region backups, and snapshot exports. - Configure Multi‑AZ, read replicas, and global database setups for HA/DR, DRS. - Review and apply AWS-managed patching and engine version upgrades and use of SSM. - Troubleshoot RDS events, slow queries, IOPS bottlenecks, and VPC/networking issues and advanced database insights. - Integrate RDS with IAM authentication, KMS encryption, CloudTrail, and Secrets Manager. Qualifications - Bachelor's Degree or minimum 5-7 years equivalent Work Experience. - Hands‑on experience with one or more database platforms (PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB, etc.). - Strong understanding of Linux/Unix and Windows server environments. - Familiarity with cloud database services (AWS RDS, Azure SQL, GCP Cloud SQL). - Ability to analyze logs, troubleshoot performance issues, and interpret monitoring metrics. - Knowledge of backup tools, replication technologies, and high‑availability configurations. - Scripting experience (Shell, Python, PowerShell) for automation and operational tooling. - Strong communication and collaboration skills for cross‑team coordination. - Initiative and problem-solving skills to support project level work with moderate oversight/guidance. Benefits - Variety of health coverage options. - Wellbeing and support programs. - Retirement plans. - Vacation and sick leave. - Maternity, paternity & adoption leave. - Continuing education and training. - Voluntary benefit options.