Database Engineer

INDEX ANALYTICS LLC•Baltimore, MD

1d•$135,000 - $165,000•Remote

About The Position

Index Analytics is seeking a Database Engineer to design, administer, and optimize cloud-based database services supporting a large federal data warehouse. The role combines database engineering, automation, and production administration across Aurora, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and AWS-based services. The Database Engineer works with Data Engineers, Cloud Architects, DevSecOps Engineers, security personnel, and analytics teams. This is a remote-first position open to candidates residing in the United States. Occasional travel or on-site presence may be required for client meetings, project activities, training, or other organizational needs. Standard business hours align with Eastern Time; availability outside normal business hours may occasionally be required for releases, incidents, deadlines, surge support, or other business-critical situations. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Depending on assigned work, candidates must be able to obtain and maintain a federal client badge and successfully complete a Public Trust background investigation. The anticipated salary range is $135,000–$165,000 per year across geographic locations, with final compensation determined by skills, qualifications, relevant experience, internal equity, and market conditions. Index Analytics offers medical, dental, and vision coverage, retirement savings options, discretionary bonus opportunities, and reimbursement for professional development and continuing education.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related discipline and at least eight years of relevant experience, or equivalent specialized experience.
Hands-on database engineering or administration experience with Snowflake and SQL.
Experience with AWS cloud services and production database environments.
Experience with performance analysis, query tuning, sizing, and cost optimization.
Experience with Python automation, access controls, and database CI/CD.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
Where required by assigned work, must be able to obtain and maintain a federal client badge and successfully complete a Public Trust background investigation.

Nice To Haves

Experience with PostgreSQL, Oracle, Teradata, Databricks, or other enterprise data platforms.
Snowflake or AWS certification.
Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, data governance, metadata management, or federal health programs.

Responsibilities

Design and maintain database schemas, data models, objects, and interfaces supporting structured and semi-structured data.
Administer Snowflake and PostgreSQL environments, including user provisioning, role-based access control, row-level security, and object permissions.
Develop, review, and deploy DDL and database changes through controlled CI/CD and change-management processes.
Write and optimize complex SQL; monitor performance, workload utilization, storage, and cost; and tune queries and database resources.
Develop Python scripts and infrastructure-as-code components to automate administration, deployment, and validation tasks.
Support integration among databases and AWS services such as S3, Secrets Manager, and Lambda.
Implement database security, auditing, encryption, retention, backup, recovery, and continuity controls in partnership with security teams.
Troubleshoot database access, performance, deployment, and production issues; document root cause and corrective action.
Maintain database standards, architecture documentation, runbooks, and Confluence content.