Database Administrator

SAIC

Suitland, MDJob$160–200K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation

$160–200K/yr

Location

Suitland, MD

Work Authorization

Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

TS/SCI clearance

Job overview

Varen, an SAIC company, seeks an experienced Database Administrator in Suitland, Maryland. The role provides and oversees Microsoft SQL Server database services and environments, including their configuration, security, availability, automation, administration, and monitoring. The administrator works with architecture and engineering teams to modernize production database environments and must hold an active TS/SCI with polygraph.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Microsoft SQL

Qualifications

Bachelor's+9, Master's+7, or PhD/JD+4 YearsTS/SCI With Polygraph9+ Years Experience7+ Years Experience4+ Years Experience

Full job description

Description

Varen, an SAIC company is seeking an experienced Database Administrator to join our team. This position in located in Suitland, MD and requires an active TS/SCI with polygraph to be considered.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Provides high-performance, highly available, and secure Microsoft SQL Server database services.
Oversees implementation, configuration, hardening, availability, resiliency, protection, automation, administration, and monitoring of multiple SQL Server environments.
Participates in design, engineering, implementation, and modification of production database environments. Proactively monitors and assesses platforms for efficiency, optimal configuration, and security compliance.
Works with IT architecture and engineering teams to research and implement new technologies for database modernization.
Oversees implementation, configuration, hardening, availability, resiliency, protection, automation, administration, and monitoring of multiple SQL server DB environments.
Act as the Microsoft SQL server SME.
Monitor and assess deployed platforms, ensure they are operating efficiently, optimally, and are configured properly, and they are secured within vendor guidance, best practices, and required information assurance and security (INFOSEC) compliance and Government requirements.
Explore, research, analyze, assess, implement, and transition new technologies to an operational state to modernize and improve on existing MS SQL solutions

Qualifications

Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience ; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience.
TS/SCI with Polygraph.
Experience with Microsoft SQL

Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

REQNUMBER: 2617860

SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability

How this job compares

Set against the 709 open Database Administrator jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.

Pay: This posting$160–200K/yr
Maryland median$111–195K/yr34 salary ranges
US median$91–150K/yr482 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $180K, is 19% above the Maryland median midpoint ($151K) — in the middle half of Database Administrator salary ranges in Maryland.
Openings: Olive Jobs lists 43 open Database Administrator jobs in Maryland and 709 across the US. 13% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Maryland: Leidos9 open
CGS Federal5 open
ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company2 open
Experience: This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Database Administrator postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (572 postings).
Education: 288 of the 709 open Database Administrator jobs (41%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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