Senior Database Engineer TS/SCI with Poly REQUIRED

$88,200 - $214,800/Yr

CGI Group - Reston, VA

- Senior

Reston, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

CGI Federal is seeking an experienced Senior Database Engineer for an exciting opportunity within our Intel Community. This position is located in Reston, VA.

Responsibilities

• Perform high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for complex database management systems workstations and servers on multiple operating systems in both cloud-hosted and on-premises systems.
• Implement and maintain smooth operation and physical design of databases.
• Coordinate, direct, and perform complex database software installations and upgrades to operating systems and related database software packages.
• Schedule installations and upgrades and maintain them in accordance with established IT policies and procedures.
• Continually monitor and tune multiple database systems and databases to achieve optimum performance levels.
• Ensure database data integrity by evaluating, implementing, and managing appropriate solutions of varying complexities.
• Ensure database recoverability by developing and implementing a schedule of database backups and archive operations.
• Plan and implement the modernization of database implementations.
• Develop, implement, and promote standard operating procedures and schedules.
• Conduct audits of databases to ensure compliance with established standards, policies, and configuration guidelines.
• Develop and implement new standards, policies and procedures.
• Work closely with Systems Admins, database engineers, and software developers to help determine and develop the database software and databases that will be implemented.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related STEM field.
• Strong and demonstrated proficiency in relational database design and maintenance.
• 5+ years experience of database design and development in Defense or secured Government Installations.
• Experience within a lean Agile best practices (Jira) and version control (Git).
• Advanced experience with SQL scripting.
• 3+ years experience with programming tools (Java, Python).
• Cloud platform experience, preferably AWS.
• 3+ years experience with data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau).
• DevOps experience (Docker, Kubernetes) and IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation).

Nice-to-haves

• Experience implementing graph database design and visualization.
• Cloud Certification - preferable AWS.
• Experience with Machine Learning models.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Comprehensive insurance options.
• Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan.
• Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time.
• Paid parental leave.
• Learning opportunities and tuition assistance.
• Wellness and Well-being programs.