Senior Database Engineer

Leidos seeks a Senior Database Engineer to architect, design, and administer highly available databases for large-scale national security systems. You will build and maintain secure database environments, optimize performance, support cloud and Kubernetes workloads, and collaborate with Agile teams on reliable system delivery.

Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements and develop system architectures, designs, and technical specifications.
• Create configuration documentation, capacity plans, performance models, risk assessments, and alternatives analyses.
• Lead database engineering and design for distributed systems, focusing on integration, scalability, and reliability.
• Design, administer, install, upgrade, patch, and tune database environments and objects.
• Monitor database performance, resolve bottlenecks, validate backups, and document disaster recovery strategies.
• Plan future database needs and collaborate with Agile teams throughout system development and delivery.

Required Skills

• Oracle database administration
• Postgre
• SQL database administration
• Relational database architecture
• Database schema design and data modeling
• SQL functions, stored procedures, and triggers
• Database performance tuning
• Database clustering and replication
• Load balancing
• Backup, recovery, and disaster recovery
• Kubernetes and cloud database environments