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# Jr. Database Engineer

- **Company:** Shield Consulting Solutions
- **Location:** Linthicum Heights, MD, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Starter
- **Salary:** $125,000.0 - $135,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Confluence, JIRA, Cloud Computing, Databases, Serialization, Database Design, Database Storage Structures, Software Debugging, Computer Data Storage, Django Web Framework, JSON, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Microsoft Visual Studio, MongoDB, Swagger, Data Streaming, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Flask (Web Framework), Git, Information Technology, Docker, Microservices
- **Published:** September 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9178315/jr-database-engineer

## About the Role

* 5 years of applicable professional experience in database engineering
 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline
 + Additional 5 years of applicable professional experience may be substituted for a degree, * Database experience using MongoDB or MariaDB, Including:
 + deployment and management of the database itself
 + debugging of optimization issues
 + scaling

Desired Experience:

 * 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

## Description

* As part of the Secure the Enterprise initiative, develop capabilities to shift from the current manual system security evaluation and authorization process 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., * The Database Engineer will provide technical expertise for database design, development, implementation, information storage and retrieval, data flow and analysis.
 * The Database Engineer will develop or maintain database structure to fit into the overall architecture of the system.
 * The Database Engineer will create new workflows to take over existing processes as needed as well as provide break/fix requests or updates.
 * The Database Engineer will lead development of database structures, database parser software, and database loading software.
 * The Database Engineer will support the development and test of various Python based ReST end points, microservices, and data model management capabilities utilizing Django and Flask frameworks to interact with data models such as mariaDB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL and send data upon request, in JSON format, to UI front ends.


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