Database Engineer

2 months ago

Washington, DC, USASenior

Base Salary

$140k - $150k/yr

Responsibilities

Design, deploy, maintain, and provide Tier 3 support for enterprise database, storage, and network storage systems supporting DIA mission systems.
Install patches and perform database and storage platform updates, lifecycle maintenance, capacity planning, and storage optimization.
Implement and support replication, backup, restore, disaster recovery, business continuity, and high-availability solutions.
Troubleshoot storage, replication, performance, and availability issues across LAN and WAN environments and perform data recovery operations.
Monitor system performance, integrity, and availability to prevent outages and data loss.
Provide technical recommendations for storage upgrades, infrastructure enhancements, project integrations, migrations, and modernization initiatives.
Develop and maintain technical documentation, procedures, and recovery plans.
Ensure compliance with DoD cybersecurity, data protection, and operational requirements.
Participate in after-hours, on-call, or emergency support as required.

Active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearance.
At least 8 years of experience supporting enterprise database and storage systems in DoD or Intelligence Community environments.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Database Engineering, or a related technical discipline, with equivalent experience accepted in lieu of a degree.
Strong knowledge of database engineering and administration, NAS, SAN, and enterprise storage architectures.
Experience with data replication, backup, restore, disaster recovery, business continuity, storage troubleshooting, and performance analysis.
Experience providing Tier 3 engineering support for large-scale, mission-critical, or Intelligence Community information systems.
Familiarity with patch management, system updates, lifecycle maintenance, COOP, and high-availability architectures.
Ability to analyze performance and recommend scalable storage and infrastructure solutions.
Must be a U.S. citizen.
Preferred: CompTIA Security+ CE, vendor-specific database certifications such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, or PostgreSQL, storage or infrastructure certifications such as NetApp, Dell EMC, or VMware, and CompTIA Server+ or Network+.

Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
Flexible Spending Accounts, 401(k), paid time off, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement, and paid federal holidays.
Work may involve extended sitting or standing, computer use, bending, reaching, kneeling, and lifting up to 30 pounds.
The role may require after-hours, on-call, or emergency support.

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