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# Mid Level Database Engineer [$172K/yr] TS/SCI FS-Poly

- **Company:** SYSTOLIC, INC.
- **Location:** Annapolis Junction, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $172,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Confluence, JIRA, Cloud Computing, Databases, Serialization, Database Storage Structures, Software Debugging, Computer Data Storage, Django Web Framework, JSON, Python (Programming Language), MariaDB, Microsoft Visual Studio, MongoDB, Swagger, Data Streaming, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Flask (Web Framework), Git, Docker, Microservices
- **Published:** July 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9034218/mid-level-database-engineer-172kyr-tssci-fs-poly

## About the Role

* SYSTOLIC is seeking a Mid Level Database Engineers with MongoDB (preferred) or MariaDB experience to work on a very high visiblity enterprise tool.

Qualifications & Compensation:

 * Database experience using MongoDB (preferred) or MariaDB, including:
 - deployment and management of the database itself
 - debugging of optimization issues
 - scaling
 * Five (5) years experience as a DBE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
 * Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Five (5) years of DBE experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
 * Candidates who meet these requirements will receive an annual compensation of approximately [$172k/yr]

## Description

* Develop capabilities to shift from a manual evaluation system to a new model that emphasizes automation, streamlined processes and approvals, continuous monitoring and assessment, and network data gathering across the entire life cycle of a project.
 * Direct the development of complex systems using queries, tables, and database storage and retrieval using Cloud methodologies for the design, development, implementation, information storage and retrieval, data flow and analysis.
 * Direct the overall database structure to fit into the overall architecture of the system.
 * Create new workflows to take over existing processes as needed as well as provide break/fix requests or updates.
 * Lead development of database structures, database parser software, and database loading software.
 * Direct fulfillment of requirements from a project inception to conclusion.

Preferred Requirements:

 * Python, Django or Flask
 * ReST Endpoint Development
 * Micro-Service Model
 * Swagger
 * AWS, C2S or other cloud experience
 * Docker
 * Visual Studio Code or similar IDEs, JSON and/or XML serialization
 * Jira, Confluence
 * Git version control
 * Experience working in Agile environment


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