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# Database Engineer II

- **Company:** Prodigy One, LLC
- **Location:** Linthicum Heights, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $124,000.0 - $208,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Confluence, JIRA, Cloud Computing, Databases, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Serialization, Database Design, Database Storage Structures, Software Debugging, Django Web Framework, JSON, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Microsoft Visual Studio, MongoDB, Swagger, Systems Architecture, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Data Storage Technologies, Flask (Web Framework), Git, Data Management, Front End Software Development, Docker, Microservices
- **Published:** July 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/c65e5c3b-060f-4e77-a531-9b65c333ab58

## About the Role

* Database experience using MongoDB, Including:
 * Deployment and management of the database itself
 * Debugging of optimization issues
 * Scaling

Preferred Qualifications:

 * 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

Education Requirements: Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline (5 additional years of DBE experience without a degree) and 5 years' experience as software/database engineer

## Description

As part of the Secure the Enterprise initiative, this role supports the transition from manual system security evaluation and authorization processes to a modern, automated approach. The focus is on enabling streamlined workflows and approvals, continuous monitoring and assessment, and comprehensive network data collection throughout the entire project lifecycle.

The Database Engineer provides technical expertise across database design, development, implementation, and data management. This role is responsible for building and maintaining database structures that align with overall system architecture, while improving data storage, retrieval, and flow. The Database Engineer also develops new workflows to replace or enhance existing processes, supports system updates and issue resolution, and leads the development of database structures, parser software, and data loading solutions.

In addition, the Database Engineer contributes to the development and testing of Python-based REST endpoints, microservices, and data model management capabilities using frameworks such as Django and Flask. These services interface with databases including MariaDB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL, delivering data in JSON format to front-end applications.


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