Database Engineer (Senior)

Overall Assignment Description:

Database Engineers partner with Software Product Teams and end users to understand needs, make recommendations for database architectures. Once recommendations are approved, the Database Engineer implements leveraging modern, database technologies such as PostGRES and NOSQL database technologies. The Database Engineer is proficient in modern, cloud offerings and cloud database services, how to work with them, and how they fit in modern, cloud native applications that leverage the twelve factors found at https://12factor.net. This includes how to build and deploy modern cloud native data architectures, data processing and analytics pipelines and being able to make appropriate tradeoff decisions in data architectures between stable, structured, persistent data and dynamic, streaming, perishable data.

Duties include:

• Conditioning software for inclusion in a database.
• Leverages software-, platform- and infrastructure- as-a-service to deliver GEOINT solutions.
• Ensures optimum efficiencies for the utilization of cloud native or cloud enabled databases.
• Creates and maintains data architecture using automated software deployment pipelines with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools.

   

  Skills and Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.
• Senior-level working experience in government or industry supporting or leading cloud-based systems engineering efforts.
• Demonstrated experience using the following technologies:
  • PostGRES/PostGIS
  • NoSQL
  • Amazon Web-Services o Cloud Foundry

    Desired:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.