Sr. Database Engineer/Administrator

General Dynamics-posted 6 months ago

$139,984 - $163,300/Yr

Full-time • Senior

Remote • Rockville, MD

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

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We are seeking a Sr Database Engineer to support the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). In this role, you will administer and enhance existing database service offerings to support critical business processes and ongoing scientific research. You will work closely with other innovative and savvy people to collaborate with product owners and engineer new database offerings, using the latest technologies to improve delivery time and reduce operational maintenance. We'll want you to think beyond just database services and contribute to other areas of our hosting environment as we focus on continued modernization efforts. We'll want to hear your opinion. You'll help automate and streamline our operations and processes and further the adoption of DevOps best practices.

Collaborating with product owners to develop new or modify existing PowerShell scripts to automate database services, such as configuration of new database instances, patching, and upgrades
Troubleshooting issues that impact services and actively responding to alerts and performance trends
Responding to service requests, such as complicated product deployment efforts that require coordination to modify data and database hosting configurations
Joining sprint or ad hoc meetings to discuss requirements for products and brainstorm new technical solutions
Attending a daily stand-up meeting to report your accomplishments, plans for the day, and any roadblocks you encountered
Working closely with other Database and System Engineers to enhance the experience for delivering infrastructure services and developing custom products by introducing techniques, such as CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and containerized or serverless workloads
Present on best practices, new technologies, and ways you approached and solved challenging technical issues
Provide guidance and tier 3 support for Junior DBA's

Technical training or degree plus 8+ years' experience with all aspects of Database Administration
Extensive experience managing, configuring, and patching Microsoft SQL server hosted on Windows systems in a high availability environment
Minimum of eight years of experience with Microsoft SQL Server
Minimum of two years of experience with AWS, specifically with relational database services
Minimum of four years of experience with PowerShell
Experience working at NIAID required
Experience analyzing solutions components, understanding systems integration challenges, and identifying technology gaps in product designs that must be resolved to reach future performance targets and functionality requirements
Must be able to obtain a NIH Public Trust

Experience with other relational and graphing databases, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL
Experience with programming languages, such as PHP, Python, Perl, and/or Ruby
Experience migrating on-prem MS SQL servers to AWS
Developing and hosting AWS database solutions
Experience with Datadog database monitoring and performance tuning
Experience with a variety of technologies to develop, maintain, and deploy infrastructure services, such as continuous deployment and continuous integration services, code repositories, and security vulnerability identification and protection. Example technologies include Ansible, Datadog, Terraform, Idera, GitHub

Variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
Dental plan options
Vision plan
401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
Full flex work weeks where possible
Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
Short and long-term disability benefits
Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance

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