About the Agency
These positions are located in the Office of the Chief Information Officer, Office of Infrastructure Engineering and Operations (IEO), Enterprise Platform Services Division (EPSD), Database Services Branch (DSB). The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is the principal advisor to the Under Secretary and Director on the application of information technology (IT) to support and improve the Agency’s business processes.
The Office of Infrastructure Engineering and Operations (IEO) provides day-to-day operational support for USPTO-developed applications. The Office maintains the USPTO data center facilities, production hardware, and telecommunications infrastructure. The Office leads the definition and evolution of the architecture for the USPTO-wide IT infrastructure, ensuring the proper development of that infrastructure, enforcing controls for new systems and applications, implementing necessary upgrades, and integrating applicable new technology.
The Database Services Branch manages and maintains all database management software installed on enterprise and application servers. DSB performs database control and administration functions associated with database operations, design, performance, security and integrity. The Branch supports BCDR efforts, high availability and load balancing for over 400 databases. The staff provides technical expertise to data modelers, system developers, program managers and end users; troubleshoots and resolves data base software problems; and evaluates the feasibility of new/upgraded data base software. The environment supported includes multiple database applications, both Proprietary and Open Source, such as Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server and others.
This position serves as Senior Database Administrator for the Database Services Branch managing and maintaining all database management software installed on enterprise and application servers for USPTO.