Database Support Engineer, Senior (TS/SCI with FS Polygraph)

Title: Database Engineer, Senior

Location: On-site Bethesda, MD

Job Type: Full-time (40 hours per week) with benefits.
Availability: immediate.
Security Clearance: TS/SCI with FS Polygraph.

Years of Experience:

• 2 years with a PhD
• 6 years with a BS degree.
• 4 years with a master’s degree
• 8 years with an AA degree
• 10 years with an HS diploma

 Job Description

The ideal candidate will have significant experience working with a relational database such as MySQL, Postgres, or Oracle. The candidate is expected to work with another senior DBA to assist with creating DDL's for creating, modifying, or deleting tables within the database to meet customer requirements.

The candidate should have at least user-level experience with Linux and a strong grasp of SQL. Having a basic level of experience with a scripting language such as pytong is plus but not required.

This is a challenging position for a Database Administrator (DBA) to work on a new, high- profile, large-scale application with users in 50+ organizations across the Sponsor. This candidate will work with a team of software developers to specify, design, develop, test and deploy the final system.

Development will take place in an iterative fashion using scrum techniques with input from multiple stakeholders. The candidate will use flexibility and technical skills. The work will be done in a dynamic environment with multiple stakeholders. The resource will communicate with team leads and senior leadership and rapidly adjust direction in support of new and/or changing requirements.

This effort will include a variety of activities, including, but not limited to:

•   Challenging position for a Database Engineer to work on a new, high-profile, large scale application with users in 50+ organizations across the Sponsor.

•  Work with a team of software developers to specify, design, develop, test and deploy the final system.

•   Work with another senior Database Engineer to assist with creating DDLs for creating, modifying, or deleting tables within the database to meet customer requirements.

•   Development will take place in an iterative fashion using scrum techniques with input from multiple stakeholders.

•  Use flexibility and technical skills.

•  The work will be done in a dynamic environment with multiple stakeholders. The resource will communicate with team leads and senior leadership and rapidly adjust direction in support of new and/or changing requirements.

•  Assisting in designing, developing, testing and deploying data models and databases for the end-state system

•  Assisting in architecting, developing and maintaining databases for development, test, training and production environments across multiple classification fabrics for the final enterprise system

•  Working with development team and enterprise service provider partners to implement security features such as access control, role separation, audit and logging, and system monitoring

•    Participating in iterative software development teams with adherence to all reporting requirements

• Meeting with stakeholders, analyzing requirements, developing user stories and related artifacts, and translating these into a data model and corresponding database(s)

•  Working with other enterprise data service programs to leverage their capabilities in the final system implementation

•  Developing technical documentation and briefing materials to support program status reviews, control gates, and other presentations as directed by program management

•  Providing demonstrations and detailed walk-throughs of data model and repository features to a variety of technical and non-technical audiences; and

•  Working with rapid prototyping to refine requirements and design.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

•     Education: Bachelor's Degree (Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a closely related discipline)

•  Required Experience: 10+ yrs

Technical skills:

•  Significant experience working with relational databases such as MySQL, Postgres, or Oracle.

•  User level experience with Linux and a strong grasp of SQL. Having a basic level of experience with a scripting language - such as Python - is plus but not required.

•  Demonstrated experience with supporting the development, engineering, and administration of cloud-based databases.

•  Significant experience with MySQL.

•  Demonstrated experience designing and implementing security measures, access controls, role separation, audit, and logging-in database solutions.

•  Demonstrated experience with standard data exchange formats, including Extensible Markup Language (XML).

Knowledge of AWS Cloud services is a plus

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• 401K