About Us
IAG Defence & National Security (DNS) is part of IAG, a specialist advisory firm supporting complex infrastructure, Defence and national security programs across Australia.
Our DNS team works closely with Commonwealth agencies and industry partners to deliver specialist expertise into nationally significant programs. Our success depends on our ability to identify, engage and mobilise highly specialised talent quickly and effectively. IAG is recognised as Veteran Friendly Employer under the Veteran Employment Program.
The Role
The Database Administrator (DBA) ensures that databases supporting the modernised website
and associated applications are secure, reliable, performant and well-governed.
The candidate must hold an active Baseline security clearance prior to commencement.
Key duties and responsibilities:
Role will be responsible for, but not limited to:
Database management and optimisation
- Design, administer and maintain database architecture, schemas, tables, views and naming
conventions to ensure data integrity and accuracy.
- Monitor and tune performance (indexes, queries, storage, connections) to meet service levels
across development, test, staging and production environments.
- Implement and maintain backup, recovery and failover procedures; contribute to disaster
recovery planning and testing.
Security and compliance
- Apply security hardening and access controls (roles, privileges), and ensure encryption,
patching and audit requirements are met.
- Safeguard information against unauthorised access, modification or disclosure and maintain
compliance with AEC security and governance frameworks.
Change, testing and quality
- Support controlled changes to database structures and configurations.
- Maintain versioned change records and documentation.
- Test database systems and upgrades, including debugging, tracking, reproduction and
resolution of issues in line with approved procedures.
Design and implementation support
- Write and maintain logical and physical database descriptions and related technical
documentation.
- Work with developers to optimise SQL and data access patterns; contribute to solution design
and data modelling discussions.
Integration, migration and operations
- Support data migration, cleansing and validation activities.
- Assist with integrations (including CMS and API-driven services) to maintain data quality across platforms.
- Provide service support in diagnosing, resolving and repairing database-related issues, and
participate in incident and problem management processes.
Stakeholder engagement and team contribution
- Provide accurate specialist advice and guidance to project teams and stakeholders.
- Tailor explanations for technical and non-technical audiences.
Governance and continuous improvement
- Implement and administer database documentation, guidelines, policies and procedures
- Ensure accurate records and compliance with audit requirements.
- Identify opportunities to improve database reliability, automation and operational efficiency
- Support standardisation of patterns and practices.
About You
You are an experienced Database Administrator with a strong background supporting enterprise database environments and ensuring the performance, security and availability of critical systems. You have hands-on experience administering SQL Server, PostgreSQL and/or MySQL databases, including performance tuning, monitoring, capacity planning, backup and recovery, and implementing high-availability solutions.
You are confident managing database upgrades, patching and structured change processes, applying a methodical approach to testing, troubleshooting and issue resolution. Your strong SQL skills enable you to work effectively with developers and technical teams to optimise queries, improve database performance and support sound data design practices.
Ideally, you bring experience working with AWS database services such as RDS and Aurora, along with an understanding of cloud-hosted operational environments. Exposure to web platforms, content management systems (Drupal highly regarded), API integrations, CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes will be viewed favourably.
You are a collaborative team member who enjoys working within Agile delivery environments and multi-disciplinary teams. With excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, you can confidently provide technical advice, translate complex concepts into practical outcomes and contribute to the successful delivery of large-scale digital transformation initiatives.
Experience working within government or highly regulated environments, with an understanding of governance, security and audit requirements, will be highly regarded.
The candidate must hold an active Baseline security clearance prior to commencement.
What we offer
With offices in Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, and Canberra, we’re a tight-knit team, working across some of Australia’s most critical infrastructure and Defence projects. We come from diverse backgrounds and pride ourselves on our flexible, supportive and collaborative team culture. We can offer great work, great people, great culture, great conditions, and an all-round great time, whilst you go about developing a great career in this space.
As part of IAG, you’ll be joining a team of more than 250 professionals’ working across a range of integrated workstreams in a friendly and approachable environment.
