Data Engineer

$107,000 - $140,000/Yr

Unclassified - Atlanta, GA

Full-time - Mid Level

Atlanta, GA

About the position

The Data Engineer role involves supporting customers in designing, building, and operating database infrastructure. This position focuses on solving complex problems to enhance the reliability and performance of database environments, including daily maintenance, monitoring, performance analysis, and user assistance.

Responsibilities

• Monitors and maintains database platforms.
• Investigates related problems and implements solutions to achieve efficiency gains.
• Defines and champions database best practices.
• Performs and/or automates routine database maintenance operations and tasks.
• Improves and maintains the backup and recovery process.
• Utilizes database performance and modeling expertise for design and security issues.
• Coordinates data integrity and develops/maintains logical and physical data models.
• Organizes data integration and movement activities, building data migration strategies.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to translate business requirements into data models.
• Analyzes and develops strategies for improving database architectures.
• Troubleshoots and resolves database issues across hardware, software, application, and network environments.
• Researches, implements, and tests new database components.
• Monitors database size and growth requirements and projects space allocation needs.
• Provides database installation and configuration services.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Programming, or related field.
• Minimum of 6 years' relevant experience or equivalent combination of education/experience.
• Knowledge of software programming, development, review, audit, testing, and configuration management.
• Ability to use a scripting language (such as Python) for database administration tasks.
• Experience in Microsoft Azure cloud database technologies.
• Certification at the Information Assurance Technical (IAT) II level (e.g., CCNA, CySA+, Security+).
• Preference for DoD or Federal Government industry experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with database performance tuning and optimization.
• Familiarity with data migration strategies and tools.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401(k)
• STD/LTD/AD&D
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Training and Development Opportunities