Database Engineer
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Job description
Seeking a Database Engineer with strong experience supporting enterprise-scale, cloud-hosted databases, primarily within AWS environments. This role focuses on database administration, performance optimization, data modeling, and operational reliability, ensuring high availability and efficiency for mission-critical systems.
Target salary is $130-135k. (Please note this position is funded through March 2026 and most likely will push through June 2026).
Primary Focus Areas
- Administer and optimize AWS-hosted databases.
- Design and maintain efficient, scalable data models.
- Monitor and tune database performance.
- Troubleshoot data integrity and system issues.
- Ensure reliability, availability, and performance of enterprise data platforms., * Manage enterprise databases hosted on AWS RDS and EC2.
- Perform database performance tuning (query optimization, indexing, configuration).
- Design and optimize schemas, tables, indexes, and views.
- Identify and resolve data inconsistencies and database-related issues.
- Support database reliability, scalability, and operational health.
- Monitor database performance using metrics and monitoring tools.
Requirements
US Citizen and active Secret Clearance., * Certification: 8570 certification in IAT Level II certification or above (Security+ CE, CASP+ CE, CISSP, etc.)
- Cloud Platforms: AWS (RDS, EC2-hosted databases).
- Database Administration: Backup/recovery, configuration, tuning.
- Performance Optimization: Query tuning, index management, execution plan analysis.
- Data Design: Schema and relational data modeling.
- Monitoring: Performance metrics, alerting, and health dashboards.
- Bachelor's and nine (9) or relevant years of experience in lieu of degree.
Problem Solving & Reliability
- Strong troubleshooting skills for data integrity and performance issues.
- Ability to quickly diagnose root causes of database incidents.
- Experience maintaining uptime and system stability in production environments.
Preferred
- Database Administrator (DBA) transitioning into a cloud-focused engineer role.
- Backend or platform engineer with deep database tuning experience.
- Cloud engineer with strong RDS and data performance background.
- Engineers supporting high-volume or mission-critical systems.
- Experience with automation or infrastructure-as-code around databases.
- Exposure to multi-environment (dev/test/prod) database support.
- Familiarity with enterprise monitoring and alerting platforms.
Benefits & conditions
Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
