Mission-Critical DB Engineer (TS/SCI)

Excelity; Herndon (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Long and Short-term disability

Paid vacation and holidays

Safe Harbor 401(k) with 6% match

Professional development reimbursement

memberships to professional orgs

Job summary

Excelity is seeking a Database Engineer to support the next generation Mission Integration System for a government customer. The role involves data management, database engineering, and maintaining database systems within a Production Operations team on-site in Virginia.

Required TS/SCI with CI Poly clearance, a degree with 5+ years of relevant experience, and hands-on experience with Postgres, SQL, and performance tuning. Knowledge of AWS, Elasticsearch, Linux, and Agile is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelors with 5+ years experience or Masters with 3+ years, or PhD with no experience; more years may substitute.
• Experience with Postgres, SQL, and database performance tuning.
• Experience installing application software in an operational environment.
• Experience with Agile, AWS, RDBMS technology, Elasticsearch, Linux.
• DoD IAT Level II certification.
• Position is 100% on site.

Responsibilities

• Database engineering and management for high-volume, multi-format data services.
• Maintain large-scale data management solutions with efficient storage and indexing.
• Update enterprise data models and abstraction layer for new sources.
• Design indexing strategies for ingested data and performance tuning.
• Develop strategy for ongoing performance tuning of databases.

Skills

Postgres

SQL

Data modeling

AWS

Linux

RDBMS

Elasticsearch

Education

Bachelor’s degree + 5+ years

Master’s degree + 3+ years

PhD with no experience

Tools

Elasticsearch

Hadoop

EMR

Graph databases

Job description

Excelity is seeking a Database Engineer to support the next generation Mission Integration System for a government customer. The role involves data management, database engineering, and maintaining database systems within a Production Operations team on-site in Virginia.

Required TS/SCI with CI Poly clearance, a degree with 5+ years of relevant experience, and hands-on experience with Postgres, SQL, and performance tuning. Knowledge of AWS, Elasticsearch, Linux, and Agile is expected.