Database Engineer #1865771

Summary

Network Designs, Inc. is a federal information technology contractor delivering network and IT solutions for government customers. The Database Platform Engineer will administer and engineer production and non-production database platforms supporting FAA enterprise data, applications, analytics, and reporting services, while ensuring secure, reliable, and well-documented operations.

Responsibilities

• Administer Oracle RAC and cloud-based PostgreSQL/Aurora database environments supporting mission-critical FAA workloads
• Maintain database availability, performance, capacity, schemas, access controls, backups, recovery, patching, upgrades, replication, and high-availability configurations
• Use RMAN and approved operational tooling to protect data, validate recoverability, and sustain production and non-production environments
• Monitor platform health, review logs and metrics, diagnose incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and tune SQL, storage, indexing, and database configurations
• Support EDR, ADX, FAA1, PURE, and EDP operations, release cycles, platform modernization, database migrations, and transitions from proprietary platforms to cloud and NoSQL/SQL architectures
• Maintain data dictionaries, technical documentation, SOPs, runbooks, architecture artifacts, schedules, and evidence supporting FAA security and privacy assessments
• Participate in vulnerability remediation, configuration reviews, annual assessments, and continuous-monitoring activities
• Coordinate with application developers, ETL engineers, platform engineers, security teams, and product owners to preserve data integrity and system interoperability

Skills

• * U.S. Citizenship is required
• * Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
• * This position is remote, candidate must reside in one of the following states: AL, AZ, DC, FL, GA, ID, MD, MS, NJ, NC, OK, OH, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WV
• * Occasional travel may be required. Candidates should be able to attend meetings at FAA facilities and other locations throughout the Continental United States (CONUS) as required
• * Bachelor's degree in IT, engineering, computer science, or a related field
• * Minimum 4 years of demonstrable database administration and/or engineering experience in an enterprise environment
• * Demonstrated ability to perform work closely related to the assigned tasks and work products
• * Strong written, verbal, analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills
• * Ability to work with sensitive, confidential, or regulated information and follow FAA and federal policies and procedures
• * Ability to use FAA-issued accounts and Government-designated collaboration and task-tracking systems as required
• * FAA or federal database operations experience
• * Experience supporting regulated, high-availability production environments
• * Experience with cloud database modernization, NoSQL platforms, automation, and enterprise data warehouses

Qualifications

Must Haves

• * U.S. Citizenship is required
• * Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
• * This position is remote, candidate must reside in one of the following states: AL, AZ, DC, FL, GA, ID, MD, MS, NJ, NC, OK, OH, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WV
• * Occasional travel may be required. Candidates should be able to attend meetings at FAA facilities and other locations throughout the Continental United States (CONUS) as required
• * Bachelor's degree in IT, engineering, computer science, or a related field
• * Minimum 4 years of demonstrable database administration and/or engineering experience in an enterprise environment
• * Demonstrated ability to perform work closely related to the assigned tasks and work products
• * Strong written, verbal, analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills
• * Ability to work with sensitive, confidential, or regulated information and follow FAA and federal policies and procedures
• * Ability to use FAA-issued accounts and Government-designated collaboration and task-tracking systems as required

Nice to Haves

• * FAA or federal database operations experience
• * Experience supporting regulated, high-availability production environments
• * Experience with cloud database modernization, NoSQL platforms, automation, and enterprise data warehouses

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Pet insurance
• Legal insurance
• 401(k) retirement matching
• Paid leave
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off
• Health and wellness programs
• Employer-paid life insurance
• Employer-paid disability insurance
• Professional development
• Education benefits
• Remote work arrangement