Database Engineer (Mid-Level)

Database Engineer (Mid-Level) – On-Site, Washington DC

📍 Location: Washington, DC (On-site, 5 days/week)

🔒 Clearance: Active Public Trust required (DOJ Public Trust preferred)

🛂 Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship required minimum 3 years of U.S. residency

⏳ Contract: 6 months with possible extension

📞 On-Call: Required (primarily for incident support)

🕒 Hours: Standard 40-hour work week

🔎 Role Overview

We are seeking a Mid-Level Database Engineer to support mission-critical database environments across Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. The role involves managing and optimizing databases across Linux, Windows, AWS, and on-prem environments, supporting modernization initiatives, ensuring reliability, and driving performance improvements. This position works closely with development, infrastructure, and security teams.

🧩 Key Responsibilities

• Support and standardize enterprise-wide Configuration Management Database (CMDB).
• Install, configure, and maintain Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL across cloud and on-prem systems.
• Configure new databases, servers, and related infrastructure.
• Manage replication, clustering, and high-availability setups.
• Perform performance tuning, root-cause analysis, and optimization.
• Apply Quarterly Patch Set Updates (PSUs) for Oracle/MySQL.
• Lead database upgrades, patching, migrations, and refreshes.
• Support AWS DMS, cloud modernization, and automation initiatives.
• Monitor performance metrics and proactively resolve bottlenecks.
• Execute and validate database backups and ensure SLA compliance.
• Maintain baseline activities, snapshots, and monthly maintenance.
• Troubleshoot deadlocks, slow queries, indexing issues, and integrity checks.
• Manage user roles, permissions, and enforce security policies.
• Implement and monitor encryption, vulnerability fixes, and audit logs.
• Participate in DR testing, failover exercises, and backup validation.
• Provide on-call production support when required.
• Conduct AWS R&D to support new tools and automation improvements.
• Maintain detailed documentation and generate performance/growth reports.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and security stakeholders.

🛠️ Required Technical Skills

• Certifications in Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL Administration.
• Strong hands-on experience with Oracle/MySQL/PostgreSQL on Linux & Windows.
• Proficiency with AWS database services (RDS, EC2-hosted databases).
• Expertise in installation, configuration, tuning, and maintenance.
• Strong skills in backup/restore, DR planning, and failover testing.
• Ability to troubleshoot using execution plans and performance metrics.
• Understanding of security controls, encryption, audit logging, and remediation.
• Experience with monitoring and database automation tools.
• Ability to support production databases with on-call responsibilities.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.

✨ Preferred Skills

• Experience deploying/managing databases across AWS, on-prem, and hybrid environments.
• Database migration, upgrades, and replication experience.
• SQL optimization, query tuning, and index management.
• Participation in monthly maintenance, patching cycles, and DR tests.
• Strong documentation practices.

🎓 Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Up to 2 years of relevant experience (per role classification).
• Must hold or obtain a Public Trust clearance.
• Must work 100% on-site in Washington, DC.

📌 Additional Details

• Work Environment: Government site (no remote options).
• Interview Process: Phone/Teams interviews.
• No overtime expected.