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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Database Engineer/ Database Administrator - **Company:** General Dynamics Information Technology - **Location:** Fairfax, VA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $102,000.0 - $138,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Backup Devices, Information Systems, Databases, Continuous Integration, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Database Security, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Metadata, Performance Tuning, Scrum Methodology, Query Optimization, Release Management, Shell Script, SQL Databases, Data Streaming, User Provisioning Software, Sql Optimization, Snowflake, Database Optimization, Change Data Capture, Indexer, Git, Amazon Relational Database Service, Data Lakes, Debezium, Information Technology, AWS Data Analytics, Real Time Data, Apache Kafka, Data Pipelines, Databricks - **Published:** September 3, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=3375521741&tx=KP9595FFU&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54 ## About the Role Database Performance Tuning,PostgreSQL Administration,Python (Programming Language) Experience: 5 + years of related experience, Bring your expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. A successful Data Engineer Senior must have: ? Education: Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or Information Systems or related field ? Experience: 5+ years of related experience ? Required Technical Skills: * AWS RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL administration (monitoring, backup/restore, snapshots, environment refreshes). * Advanced SQL and performance tuning (query optimization, indexing, execution plans). * Python for data engineering, automation, and pipeline development. ? Preferred Experience and Skills: * CDC/streaming using AWS DMS, AWS Kinesis, Debezium, Amazon MSK/Apache Kafka; logical replication, WAL, replication slot management. * Data pipeline design and operations for ingestion/transform/migrate; near real-time data movement into Snowflake, Databricks, or data lakes. * Troubleshooting performance across databases, SQL, pipelines, and integrations; release-related database scripting/support. * ETL/ELT tools, orchestration/workflow automation; shell scripting, Git, CI/CD; Agile/Scrum or SAFe environments. * Familiarity with data governance, data quality, metadata/lineage, and reconciliation processes. * Experience with regulated enterprise systems (e.g., healthcare, government, financial) ## Description As a Data Engineer Senior, the work you'll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Program Integrity (CPI) on the Unified Case Management (UCM) system. As a PostgreSQL database engineer with administrator experience, you will play a crucial role in supporting the database quality and performance that will enhance the investigative capabilities against fraud, waste, and abuse within CPI. ? Administer and support AWS-hosted PostgreSQL (Amazon RDS/Aurora) environments, including daily monitoring, backups, snapshots, restores, and routine maintenance. ? Manage database snapshot retention, restoration, and refresh processes across production, lower environments, reporting schemas, and test environments. ? Provide database/migration support for major application releases, including schema changes, data fixes, rollback planning, and deployment validation. ? Monitor health, storage, connections, locks, long-running queries, vacuum/analyze activities, and replication status to ensure stability and performance. ? Perform advanced SQL performance tuning (query optimization, indexing strategy, execution plan analysis, table maintenance). ? Troubleshoot incidents and performance bottlenecks across databases, pipelines, and application connectivity. ? Manage database security (role management, access provisioning) and support audits. ? Design, build, and maintain data pipelines using Python, SQL, and AWS data services for ingestion, transformation, migration, and reconciliation. ? Support change data capture (CDC) and streaming architectures using AWS DMS, AWS Kinesis, Debezium, and Amazon MSK/Apache Kafka. ? Enable near real-time movement from PostgreSQL to downstream platforms (e.g., reporting schemas, data lakes, Snowflake, Databricks). ? Develop automation scripts for data movement, validation, reconciliation, and operational support. ? 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