4 months ago
Beavercreek, OH, USAEntry Level / Mid Level
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, configure, maintain, and optimize relational, non-relational, distributed, and leaderless database solutions.
- Support database deployment and sustainment for microservices in containerized Kubernetes environments.
- Develop schemas, data models, indexing strategies, and optimized SQL queries.
- Automate database provisioning, backup, recovery, replication, and migration using Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD pipelines.
- Implement data governance, audit logging, access controls, and cybersecurity requirements.
- Monitor database health, performance, storage utilization, and availability, and troubleshoot operational issues.
- Assist software engineering teams with database integration and API-driven data access.
- Support data persistence for user applications, digital engineering artifacts, simulation outputs, and platform services.
- Support deployments across cloud, hybrid, and potentially disconnected operational environments.
- Contribute to DevSecOps and Agile activities, technical documentation, architecture products, and operational procedures.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 1–5 years of professional experience supporting database technologies.
- Ability to obtain a DoD Secret security clearance.
- Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, or MSSQL.
- Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Couchbase, RavenDB, or Firestore.
- Experience with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch; Redis, Valkey, or Memcached; and distributed databases such as FoundationDB, CockroachDB, TiKV, or YugabyteDB.
- Experience with distributed consensus, replication, SQL query writing and optimization, database design, normalization, and data modeling.
- Familiarity with Linux operating systems and basic scripting in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Preferred experience with ETL, Kubernetes, containerized applications, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, distributed microservices, API-driven systems, and the Transactional Outbox pattern.
- Preferred experience with PostgreSQL scaling and replication, high-availability database architectures, DevSecOps and CI/CD tools, digital engineering, MBSE, modeling and simulation, analytics, or AI/ML environments.
- Preferred understanding of NIST RMF, STIGs, DoD cybersecurity requirements, and observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, or Loki.
Benefits
- Benefits may include a 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability coverage, paid time off, and a flexible work schedule.
- Professional training and development opportunities support career advancement.
- The position is onsite or hybrid in Dayton, Ohio, with no travel and standard working hours.
Tech Stack
AWSAzureBashCouchbaseElasticsearchGoogle CloudGrafanaKubernetesMariaDBMicrosoft SQL ServerMongoDBMySQLPostgreSQLPowerShellPrometheusPythonRedisSQL
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About KBR, Inc.
KBR, Inc. delivers engineering, technology, and professional services to government and industrial customers, spanning defense, space, sustainability, and energy. Its businesses include long-term government mission support and program management, and Sustainable Technology Solutions that license process technologies and provide consulting and operations support across asset lifecycles. Headquartered in Houston and listed on the NYSE, KBR became an independent public company in 2006 after its separation from Halliburton.