Database Engineer - Senior

Senior Database Engineer

Location: Dulles, VA (Hybrid Work)

Must have an active Secret Clearance

Node is seeking a Sr. SQL Database Administrator for our work with a federal government agency with different cloud and on-premises expertise to work collaboratively with agile development teams in the design, development, high availability, maintaining, and deployment of advanced cybersecurity capabilities.

Responsibilities:
• Plan, design, and implement SQL clusters in the different cloud environments.
• Maintain, security is up-to-date, backups, and other normal SQL Instance and database activities.
• Audit and improve our cybersecurity.
• Authorize employees that need access.
• Troubleshoot database issues.
• Plan, design, and implement migrations of SQL Instances from one environment to another.
• Work collaboratively with agile development teams, attending daily scrums and providing data related solutions to team.
• Optimize in-application SQL statements as necessary.
• Develop and maintain database SOPs, and other documentation in the team collaboration environment.
• Analyze and resolve data performance and quality issues.
• Develop a strong understanding of customer baseline capabilities, design and objectives, and applying improvements to systems.
• Maintain current industry knowledge of relevant concepts, practices and procedures.
• Must be able to work in a hybrid environment

Requirements

Required Skills:
• Must be a US Citizen.
• Active Secret clearance. Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance.
• Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability.
• 6+ years as a database administrator or in a similar role with a focus on AWS environments
• Must work well in a team environment as well as independently.
• Must exhibit good time management skills, independent decision-making capability; focus on customer service.

Required Education:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline is required. [Eight (8) years of experience (for a total of fourteen (14) or more years) may be substituted for a degree.]
• Master’s degree preferred.

Desired Certifications:
• AWS Cloud certification such as AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Azure Cloud certificates.

Company Overview:

Node.Digital is an independent Digital Automation & Cognitive Engineering company that integrates best-of-breed technologies to accelerate business impact.

Our Core Values help us in our mission. They include:

OUR CORE VALUES

Identifying the~RIGHT PEOPLE~and developing them to their full capabilities

Our customer’s “Mission” is our “Mission”. Our~MISSION FIRST~approach i s designed to keep our customers fully engaged while becoming their trusted partner

We believe in ~SIMPLIFYING~complex problems with a relentless focus on agile delivery excellence

Our mantra is “~Simple*Secure*Speed~” in delivery of innovative services and solutions

Benefits

• Medical 
• Dental
• Vision
• Basic Life 
• Health Saving Account
• 401K
• Three weeks of PTO
• 10 Paid Holidays
• Pre-Approved Online Training