Database Engineer III

Black Eagle Defense

$171K — $228K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree plus 10 years of relevant experience, or 15 years without a degree.
  • Extensive database experience with MongoDB, including deployment and management.
  • Strong debugging skills for optimization issues.
  • Expertise in database scaling.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical expertise in database design and development.
  • Develop relational and Object-Oriented databases and related software.
  • Project long-range requirements for database administration and design.
  • Develop database structures aligning with overall system architecture.
  • Lead development efforts from project inception to conclusion.
  • Create usable database schemas from project requirements.
  • Support system acceptance testing and operational capabilities.

Benefits

  • Opportunity for career growth in a dynamic tech environment.
  • Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and methodologies.
  • Collaborative team culture focusing on innovation and efficiency.
Full Job Description
Job Description

SALARY RANGE $171,000 - $228,000/year.

DUTIES As a successful candidate for the Database Engineer III role, you will support the Secure the Enterprise initiative by developing capabilities that transition the organization from manual system security evaluation and authorization processes to a modern, automated model, designing and maintaining database solutions that enable streamlined processes, continuous monitoring, and real-time assessment, supporting enterprise-wide data collection across the full lifecycle of a project, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure data integrity, optimize performance, and align database architectures with evolving security and compliance requirements.

Required Skills

SKILLS

  • Design and develop enterprise-level systems, applications, and solutions supporting cyber systems and networks, with a focus on database-driven architectures
  • Lead and support database design, development, implementation, data storage and retrieval, data flow, and analysis activities across complex environments
  • Architect and optimize database structures to align with overall system architecture, balancing data volume, user load, distribution, performance, retention, and security requirements
  • Translate complex requirements into scalable database schemas through the development of ad hoc queries, scripts, macros, and data transformation processes
  • Lead development of databases, database parser software, and data loading solutions, ensuring efficient ingestion and processing of large datasets
  • Direct and implement cloud-based database solutions utilizing queries, tables, and Open Database Connectivity for enterprise data systems
  • Develop and implement new workflows to replace legacy processes, while supporting break/fix activities and system updates
  • Support and lead system improvement initiatives, including optimization, maintenance, and performance tuning efforts
  • Define and develop short- and long-term requirements for database administration and design across business and IT domains
  • Oversee the full database development lifecycle from project inception through completion, ensuring requirements are organized, fulfilled, and aligned with mission objectives


QUALIFICATIONS A bachelor's degree plus Ten (10) years of professional experience is acceptable. Fifteen (15) years of relevant experience are acceptable if the candidate does not possess a degree.

Additional Requirements:

  • Database experience using MongoDB, including deployment and management of the database itself
  • Debugging of optimization issues
  • Scaling


Desired Skills

  • Python
  • Django or Flask
  • REST endpoint development
  • Microservice model
  • Swagger
  • AWS C2S or other cloud experience
  • Docker
  • Visual Studio Code or similar IDEs
  • JSON and/or XML serialization
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Git version control
  • Experience working in an Agile environment

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