Database Engineer

Leidos currently has an opening for a Database Administrator to support our Blacksburg Virginia Enterprise IT Operations Center remotely. This is a great opportunity to work with an elite team of database and systems professionals to maintain a secure environment for critical systems. Bring your own experience and work with our team to teach and learn while building, maintaining, and supporting our customer environments.

Primary Responsibilities

• Plan and execute database backups, disaster recovery procedures, and failover mechanisms to ensure data availability and business continuity for On-Prem and cloud solutions.
• Perform patch and security configuration activities to ensure databases under management are properly secured and up to date.
• Perform database capacity planning and scalability assessments to accommodate future growth and optimize resource utilization.
• Maintain a strong understanding of Client/Server Architecture and how to securely deploy internally and externally.
• Monitor database systems to proactively identify and resolve performance issues, bottlenecks, and data inconsistencies.
• Work in hybrid multi-location operations team administering existing production environment.
• Implement and maintain database security measures to protect sensitive data, including access controls, encryption, and data masking techniques.
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize database design and query performance and provide support for database-related application issues.
• Stay current with database technologies, trends, and best practices, and recommend improvements or new technologies to enhance database performance and functionality.
• Communicate well with Executives, Managers, Peers, and Customers.
• Support tickets and manage incidents, service requests, and problems through their full life cycle.
• Perform incident analysis to determine possible causes and potential fix.
• Primary responsibility will be SQL Server with cloud database knowledge but there is an expectation to be able to support other database platforms (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL) at some level.
• Available for on- call rotation (after clearance and first 90 days) every 2-3 weeks.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of prior relevant experience or Master’s with 2 years experience.  Additional years of experience will be considered in lieu of degree.
• Proven experience as a Database Administrator managing enterprise-level databases.
• Familiarity with database security principles and best practices.
• Strong proficiency in database administration, including installation, configuration, backup and recovery, security, and performance tuning.
• Knowledge of management tools and utilities for each database platform
• Experience SQL Server Availability Groups
• Familiarity with AWS RDS features, such as automated backups, multi-AZ deployments, and read replicas.
• Knowledge of structured and nonstructured database platforms
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to analyze complex database issues.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Obtain a baseline 8570 certification [IAT Level II) CCNA-Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP] within 3 months of hire date.
• Must have a US Citizenship.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• Must be willing to rotate an after hours, on-call schedule with the team every 2-3 weeks.

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant certifications, such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate (ExamDP-300).
• DOD or DOJ clearance.
• DoD secret clearance.
• 8570 Level II Security+ CE certification (IAT).

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For U.S. Positions: While 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.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and 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.