Senior Database Engineer

hackajob; Great Falls Crossing (VA); On-site; USD 112,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the technology sector is seeking a Senior Database Engineer with skills in relational database management and cloud technologies. The ideal candidate will join a collaborative team to support and enhance database systems, ensuring high performance and compliance. Located in Reston, VA, this full-time role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to significant projects within a secure environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in database design and development.
• Active TS/SCI with Poly required.
• 3+ years experience with programming tools like Java and Python.

Responsibilities

• Perform maintenance and support for complex database systems.
• Implement and maintain database operations and designs.
• Monitor and tune database systems for performance.

Skills

Relational database design

SQL scripting

Data visualization tools

Cloud platform experience

Education

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related STEM field

Tools

Jira

Git

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

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Position Description

CGI Federal is seeking an experienced Senior Database Engineer for an exciting opportunity within our Intel Community.

This position is located in Reston, VA.

Your future duties and responsibilities

• Perform high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for complex database management systems workstations and servers on multiple operating systems in both cloud-hosted and on-premises systems.
• Implement and maintain smooth operation and physical design of databases.
• Coordinate, direct, and perform complex database software installations and upgrades to operating systems and related database software packages.
• Schedule installations and upgrades and maintain them in accordance with established IT policies and procedures.
• Continually monitor and tune multiple database systems and databases to achieve optimum performance levels. Ensures database data integrity by evaluating, implementing, and managing appropriate solutions of varying complexities.
• Ensure database recoverability by developing and implementing a schedule of database backups and archive operations.
• Plan and implement the modernization of database implementations.
• Develop, implement, and promote standard operating procedures and schedules.
• Conduct audits of databases to ensure compliance with established standards, policies, and configuration guidelines.
• Develop and implement new standards, policies and procedures.
• Incumbent in this job works closely with Systems Admins, database engineers, and software developers to help determine and develop the database software and databases that will be implemented.
  
  

Required Qualifications To Be Successful In This Role

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related STEM field a plus.
• Active TS/SCI with Poly
• Strong and demonstrated proficiency in relational database design and maintenance
• 5+ years experience of database design and development in Defense or secured Government Installations.
• Experience within a lean Agile best practices (Jira) and version control (Git).
• Advanced experience with SQL scripting
• 3+ years experience with programming tools (Java, Python)
• Cloud platform experience, preferably AWS
• 3+ years experience with data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau)
• DevOps experience (Docker, Kubernetes) and IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation)
  
  

Desired Qualifications/non-essential Skills Required

• Experience implementing graph database design and visualization a plus.
• Cloud Certification - preferrable AWS
• Experience with Machine Learning models

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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