Database Engineer

Peraton•Herndon, VA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

At Peraton, we develop cutting-edge technology that preserves freedom and advances human discovery. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements. Our employees are not only part of history, they’re making history. Peraton’s Space & Intelligence Sector is looking for a highly motivated Senior Database Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals at our Herndon, VA office. The selected candidate will work within a Production Operations team with experience supporting data management processes, database engineering and management; deploying, maintaining, tuning, and enhancing database systems.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of relevant experience OR a Master’s degree with 6+ years of relevant experience OR A PhD with 3+ years of relevant experience; an additional 4 years of experience maybe considered in lieu of a degree requirement.
Experience with Postgres, SQL, and database performance tuning
Experience installing application software in an operational environment
Experience with Agile, AWS, RDBMS technology, Elasticsearch, Linux
DoD IAT Level II certification
Active TS/SCI with ability to obtain a poly

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with NoSQL technology (Hadoop and/or EMR)
Familiarity with Graph database technology
Data modeling experience

Responsibilities

Database engineering and management activities associated with high volume, multi-format data management services
Maintains large-scale data management solutions including developing efficient storage, indexing, and access approaches
Updates data enterprise architecture models (if needed) and data abstraction layer to enable access to new data sources
Designs and implements indexing strategies for ingested data.
Developing a strategy for continuous performance tuning of databases