Remote FAA Database Engineer – Oracle/RAC & Cloud

Network Designs; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) retirement matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Network Designs, Inc. (NDi) is seeking a Database Engineer to administer production and non-production database platforms underpinning FAA data, applications, portals, analytics, and reporting services. This role requires U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

The position is remote with residency in designated states, ET business hours alignment, and occasional CONUS travel. Strong SQL, data governance, and cross-functional collaboration are essential.”

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, engineering, CS, or related field.
• Minimum 4 years of database administration/engineering experience in an enterprise environment.
• Ability to work with sensitive or regulated information and follow FAA policies.
• Able to operate during Eastern Time business hours for FAA coordination.

Responsibilities

• Administer Oracle RAC and PostgreSQL/Aurora environments for FAA workloads.
• Maintain availability, performance, capacity, schemas, access controls, backups, recovery, patching, upgrades, replication, and HA configurations.
• Use RMAN and approved tooling to protect data, validate recoverability, and sustain environments.
• Monitor health, review logs/metrics, diagnose incidents, and tune SQL/storage/db configs.
• Support FAA operations, platform modernization, and migrations to cloud/NoSQL architectures.
• Maintain data dictionaries, runbooks, architecture artifacts, and SOPs for FAA security.
• Coordinate with developers, ETL engineers, security teams, and product owners to preserve data integrity.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Verbal and written communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/engineering/CS

Tools

Oracle RAC

PostgreSQL

Aurora

RMAN

Job description

Network Designs, Inc. (NDi) is seeking a Database Engineer to administer production and non-production database platforms underpinning FAA data, applications, portals, analytics, and reporting services. This role requires U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

The position is remote with residency in designated states, ET business hours alignment, and occasional CONUS travel. Strong SQL, data governance, and cross-functional collaboration are essential.”