Essnova Solutions, Inc.

Database Administrator (Geospatial & SQL Server)

Essnova Solutions, Inc.  •  Washington, DC (Onsite)  •  2 hours ago
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Job Description

Security Requirement: Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a NACI (National Agency Check with Inquiries)

About Essnova

At Essnova Solutions, we're not just another IT services company—we're a catalyst for change in the federal contracting landscape. As a certified 8(a) and HUBZone small business, we've been recognized for our rapid growth and excellence, including being named Alabama's Minority-Owned Small Business of the Year and earning a spot on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies.

Our mission is clear: to empower those who serve by delivering bold, innovative solutions with unmatched efficiency. From geospatial analytics to healthcare IT, we tackle some of the most critical challenges across government, education, and healthcare sectors.

We're seeking driven professionals ready to take ownership, drive meaningful change, and grow alongside a company that's scaling smart and fast.

Essnova is seeking a Database Administrator with expertise in Microsoft SQL Server, spatial databases, and enterprise geodatabase administration to support a federal marine minerals and geospatial information program.

The selected candidate will maintain enterprise geospatial databases, support schema updates and versioned environments, optimize database performance, and ensure compliance with federal metadata, security, and data management requirements. The role includes management of marine mineral datasets, geospatial services, cloud-hosted environments, and development, test, and production systems.

Key Responsibilities

  • Maintain enterprise geospatial databases across development, test, and production environments
  • Support schema modifications, versioning workflows, backups, and performance tuning
  • Implement change requests involving metadata, feature classes, tables, and database structures
  • Manage mosaics, rasters, indices, statistics, and database optimization activities
  • Publish and maintain geospatial services and associated data products
  • Catalog and organize marine mineral datasets and legacy study reports
  • Maintain file structures within DOI cloud-hosted environments
  • Ensure compliance with FGDC and ISO metadata standards
  • Manage sensitive datasets and support version control, reconciliation, and posting operations
  • Troubleshoot performance issues within complex cloud-hosted geospatial environments

Requirements

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, GIS, Geography, Engineering, or a related field
  • Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft SQL Server administration
  • Experience with Spatial SQL and geospatial database technologies
  • Expertise in Enterprise Geodatabase design and versioned environment maintenance
  • Experience with database tuning, schema modifications, and content model updates
  • Knowledge of FGDC and ISO 19115 metadata standards
  • Experience supporting cloud-hosted database environments and troubleshooting performance issues
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a NACI/Public Trust clearance

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience supporting BOEM, DOI, NOAA, USGS, or other federal geospatial programs
  • Familiarity with ArcGIS Enterprise geodatabases and branch/traditional versioning
  • Experience managing marine mineral or scientific datasets
  • Knowledge of Azure-hosted geospatial environments
  • GISP, Microsoft, or other relevant professional certifications

Essnova Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status.

Essnova Solutions, Inc.

About Essnova Solutions, Inc.

Ranked at 163 in the INC. magazine’s prestigious list of 500 fastest growing companies in the U.S, Essnova is an award winning, and mature small business offering broad range of technology and programmatic support services to the governmental and commercial customers. Essnova’s CEO is proud to be awarded with the Alabama’s SBA 2020 Small Business Person of the Year recognition.

We offer specialization in SETA Services, Geospatial, Environmental and Medical Services. Our Technology Integration/VAR reseller unit augments our services with SME Support, products and licensing from hundreds of manufacturers.

Essnova offers a highly capable management team, delivering mature management services as demonstrated by our Federal and commercial exceptional past performance. We utilize ISO-registered commercial best practices to deliver highly efficient and responsive solutions. Our team works diligently to ensure that we continue to be the world-class small business in our customers’ vendor portfolio.

Comprised of solution architects, engineers, subject matter experts – Team Essnova stands ready to assist our customers with deploying enterprise, agency wide solutions from assessment, concept, design, technology solutions procurement, implementation, training and ongoing maintenance and management.

We are the American Dream- a company comprised of normal everyday people who have a shared vision of being a contributing part of how this country and its people communicate, work together, and share together through technology and connection. This vision is what gives us the continued drive and excitement of working with the Federal agencies and Commercial organizations that are our clients, who all share our desire and goal to facilitate the implementation of systems and services that help communication and collaboration expand and be available to all who can benefit.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Birmingham, Alabama
Year Founded
2005
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