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# Database Engineer

- **Company:** GRVTY, LLC
- **Location:** Fort Meade, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $192,000.0 - $202,000.0
- **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, Docker, Microservices
- **Published:** June 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=94a5719b6ae5fbef

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Scalable systems?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, * Active TS/SCI with polygraph clearance. Most recent poly in the last 6 years.

 * 5-10 years of related technical experience addition to related bachelor's degree or 10-15 years' experience in lieu of degree.
 * Database Engineering experience using MongoDB, including:
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 + deployment and management of the database itself
 + debugging of optimization issues
 + scaling

What Would Be Nice to Have:

 * 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

GRVTY is seeking experienced Network Engineers to support core Intelligence Community (IC) missions. As an engineering professional in the intelligence community, you will work as part of a team on the frontlines against our cyber adversaries.
What You'll be Owning:

 * 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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