Database Engineer

The ideal candidate will be a technical expert responsible for performing tasks relating to Database Management System (DBMS) applications, including definition, design, structure, documentation, upgrades, long-range requirements, operational guidelines, and protection. Duties may include entering and reviewing data within the database, ensuring user data integrity, maintaining database support tools, database tables and dictionaries, recovery and back-up procedures, and making recommendations regarding enhancements and/or improvements., * Deploy, and manage highly available and scalable database solutions across Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and MS SQL server environments.

• The candidate performs data management tasks including data design, data structure identification, database schema definition, data access privilege management, data query optimization, documentation, database instance upgrades, long-range requirements, operational guidelines, and data protection.
• Duties also include entering and reviewing data within the database, ensuring user data integrity, maintaining database support tools, database tables and dictionaries, recovery and back-up procedures, and making recommendations regarding enhancements and/or improvements.
• Develop relational and non-relational database models, data warehouses, and schema designs to meet organizational requirements.
• Implement strict access control, data encryption, and robust backup and disaster recovery (DR) plans.
• Design and implement scalable solutions to accommodate increasing data volumes and user loads.
• Analyze and tune database performance for high-volume, mission-critical applications
• Implement and maintain database security measures, including access controls and encryption etc.
• Design and implement robust backup, recovery and failover architectures (e.g., Oracle

• Hands-on experience architecting, managing, and troubleshooting Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and MS SQL Server in enterprise environments.
• Deep, practical experience applying, mitigating, and auditing DoD STIGs for databases.
• Proven ability to remediate vulnerabilities and generate required compliance artifacts.
• Deep expertise in database management systems such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, or MS SQL Server.
• Expert-level understanding of relational database internals, SQL, and query performance tuning.
• Knowledge of database tuning techniques.
• Experience with database design and modeling.
• Strong experience implementing and maintaining Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs).
• Document STIG configurations and remediation actions to ensure audit readiness.
• Strong experience in conducting regular STIG compliance checks using tools like SCAP Compliance Checker and STIG Viewer.
• Familiarity with enterprise infrastructure (storage, networking, compute), Linux administration (Red Hat) and Windows Server.
• Experience negotiating complex scenarios and challenges and devising courses of action to resolve situations with predictable outcomes
• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical skills, and ability to work independently or in a team.
• DoD 8570 IAT Level II or III certification (e.g., Security+ CE, CASP+, CISSP).
• Experience supporting IC or DoW classified environments.

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Benefits for employees: medical, dental, vision, 401K, flexible spending accounts, short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, vacation and personal leave and additional benefits.