Database Engineer: MongoDB & Aurora PostgreSQL on AWS

Peraton

Lanham (MD)

On-site

USD 86,000 - 138,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Job summary

Peraton, a next‑generation national security company, seeks an experienced Database Engineer to provide database expertise and hands‑on guidance to a development team supporting enterprise applications. You will design and implement data infrastructure, ETL pipelines, and integration solutions with MongoDB, Oracle, Databricks, and relational databases.

Work Location: Onsite; Lanham, Maryland. Shift: 8am–5pm EST.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with 5+ years of professional experience; high school diploma with 9+ years acceptable.
Strong hands‑on expertise with MongoDB, Aurora PostgreSQL, RDS, and Oracle.
Experience with ETL tools such as Informatica and AWS Glue.

Responsibilities

Design and implement ETL workflows using Informatica and Glue.
Develop data transformation logic for schema compliance, data accuracy, and data quality.
Integrate data from on‑prem, cloud, and legacy systems.
Implement data validation and quality checks.
Optimize pipeline performance and reliability.
Maintain data lineage tracking and documentation.
Serve as the Data SME, providing technical guidance to teams.
Support database design, data modeling, performance tuning, and operational support.
Support MongoDB, Aurora PostgreSQL, RDS, and Oracle environments.
Assist with Databricks and enterprise data solutions.