Senior Database Engineer
Company: Leidos Inc
Location: San Diego
Posted on: April 19, 2024
Job Description:
Description Are you looking to make a difference? Leidos in San
Diego, CA is looking for a Senior Database Engineer to join our
team supporting iApp initiatives within our Intelligence
Organization.Leidos ranks as a top industry leader for its high
performance and high reliability ensuring priority of our nation's
safety. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative
technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized
product lines across the sector while providing a decisive
advantage to the warfighter. We welcome all those who have big
ideas, crave innovation and have the passion to bring the
warfighter home safe. With a 9/80 schedule, and every other Friday
off, our flexible work environment provides you a chance to change
the world without giving up your personal life. This is your chance
to join a dynamic team working across multiple disciplines with
opportunities to further expand your knowledge and grow your
career.Sound like a team you want to be a part of? Come join our
mission!JOB SUMMARY:The Senior Database Engineer will be a
technical development team leader within our portfolio of
Cybersecurity and Cryptographic Key Management projects. This
position requires a candidate who has held a diverse blend of
technical leadership roles supporting Government markets and has a
track record of successfully executing projects involving
enterprise or complex web-based implementations using relational
databases. Database technologies vary and may include systems such
as Oracle, Postgres, SQL Server, MySQL and SQLite for mobile
applications.This candidate will oversee areas of database
application support for a fast-paced, leading-edge information
assurance (IA) development program in an Agile environment,
including database design, installation, configuration, performance
tuning, backups, troubleshooting, managing DB development tools and
leading a database support team. The candidate will contribute
creative technical database design and performance guidance in
Agile planning sessions, storyboarding and SCRUM reviews.The
candidate will help to grow the business and keep the team's
skillsets recent by staying involved with industry working groups
that are focused on application security initiatives (e.g. OWASP,
CWE, SANS). Must have good customer skills and working knowledge of
database security. It is expected that the candidate is able to
work independently and collaboratively in a team environment with
strong communication and interpersonal skills. Candidate will be a
member of an experienced project team.Position Responsibilities
Will Include:
- Analyze user requirements, system architecture, and system
requirements specifications, and will provide database engineering
expertise and develop system architecture and system design
documentation.
- Support the development of system configuration documentation,
including designs for capacity and performance planning and will
perform engineering activities, including risk assessments and
analyses of alternatives for a variety of system related issues and
concerns.
- Provide guidance and support for database engineering of
large-scale systems, major system elements, and interfacing systems
that are part of a large complex network environment with
geographically distributed components.
- Interface with technical managers, system and software
integration engineers, test engineers, information assurance
engineers, and other project team members in an Agile
environment.
- Manage and administer computer databases for large development
projects.
- Ensure data requirements have been identified, design is fully
normalized, and database complies with industry best practices and
security requirements.
- Plan and implement software installations, upgrades, and
patches.
- Build instances and database objects including the creation of
tables, indexes, views, and stored procedures.
- Monitor database performance to ensure integrity of data and
provide tuning of the database for optimal performance.
- Identify need for hardware / software upgrades or
replacements.
- Ensure root causes to bottlenecks are identified and implement
corrective actions. Ensure databases backups are both scheduled and
verified successful.
- Document and implement disaster recovery plans.
- Confers with and advises subordinates on administrative
policies and procedures, technical problems, priorities and methods
of resolution.
- Consults with and advises development team members and users of
the various database applications.
- Provide development design guidance including documentation for
database engineering performance, schema, security, testing and
deployment.
- Projects long-range requirements for database administration
and design in conjunction with other managers in the information
systems function.
- Prepares activity and progress reports regarding the database
management section.
- The database engineer will actively participate in program
increment planning and related agile team activities.What you will
like about this position...
- Being part of an amazing team of professionals all passionate
about the vision of the product suite and the positive impact it
provides to our many customers.
- Implementing a wide variety of technologies and the use of
powerful industry-standard development tools and practices.Required
Qualifications:
- Bachelors of Science Degree in Computer Science or Engineering,
or a related field with at least 10+ years of related experience or
a Master's Degree with at least 8+ years of relevant experience.
- Active DoD Secret Clearance to be considered and be eligible to
obtain up to a TS/SCI clearance in the future.
- Minimum of ten (10) years of experience in programs and
contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
- Minimum of eight (8) years of professional experience as
database administrator.
- Minimum of six (6) years of experience in developing database
architectures.
- Experience with Oracle or PostgreSQL Internals.
- Hands on experience in relational database programming in
relational database management systems including the development of
functions / stored procedures / triggers / etc
- Experience with data modeling and performance tuning
- Experience in supporting development efforts in all phases of
the development life cycle.
- Ability to work in a dynamic team environment and possess time
management skills to meet schedules and participate in the Agile
scrum.
- Works well in a team environment and has excellent written and
communication skills.
- Must be able to manage workloads within multiple projects,
delivering results within agreed deadlines.
- Strong problem solving and decision-making ability.
- Exemplifies leadership traits and foster a team
atmosphere.
- Detail oriented with experience interacting with
customers.Desired Qualifications (some subset of the following):
- Knowledgeable in Agile Methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Lean),
particular to the incorporation of security / IA into the
lifecycle.
- Experience integrating security into a Continuous Integration
Environment.
- Knowledgeable on various web services / service-oriented
architectures
- Previous experience in Administration and Operations roles.DoD
8570 approved security certification (i.e., Security +) (Will be
required 90 days after hire).Original Posting Date:2024-02-28While
subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably
anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least
3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days
after the original posting date as listed above.Pay Range:Pay Range
$122,200.00 - $220,900.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is
a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or
salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include
(but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education,
experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal
equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement
(if any), or other law.
Keywords: Leidos Inc, Buena Park , Senior Database Engineer, IT / Software / Systems , San Diego, California
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