Senior Database Engineer​/Administrator

Senior Database Engineer / Administrator

Category: Database Administration

Main location: United States, Maryland, Baltimore

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Employment Type: Full Time

CGI is in the top 5 largest global IT companies spread across 40 countries with endless opportunities to expand and grow. As a Federal CGI Partner, you have the opportunity to be a shareholder at CGI and join a family of 91,000 CGI Partners strong.

CGI is seeking a Senior Database Engineer/Administrator to support enterprise database environments across Oracle, DB2, Postgre

SQL, AWS RDS, Greenplum, Mongo

DB, Elasti Cache, and Microsoft SQL Server to support a large federal agency within the CGI Civilian Business Unit. The selected candidate will provide senior level engineering, administration, performance tuning, disaster recovery, security compliance, and documentation support in alignment with federal government agency policies, enterprise standards, and internal controls. This role is responsible for ensuring database availability, resiliency, performance, and audit readiness in mission critical environments.

This position is located in Baltimore, MD

• Implement, configure, administer, and maintain Oracle, DB2, Postgre
  
  SQL, RDS, Greenplum, Mongo
  
  DB, Elasti Cache, and SQL Server databases in production and non‑production environments.
• Develop and maintain complete documentation of procedures, work products, operational processes, and lifecycle activities for all supported database platforms.
• Perform proactive performance tuning, monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning to ensure optimal database performance and reliability.
• Provide disaster recovery engineering and ongoing support, including backup validation, recovery testing, and compliance with SSA Backup and Recovery Executive Assurance / Internal Controls.
• Deliver Tier 3 technical support, incident response, and root cause analysis for complex database issues across multiple database engines.
• Support software installation, setup, configuration, patching, and integration testing activities for database products and related tools.
• Develop physical data models and implement schemas, storage structures, partitioning, indexing, and other physical design elements.
• Assist in the evaluation of Off The Shelf (OTS) products that rely on Oracle, DB2, Postgre
  
  SQL, RDS, Greenplum, Mongo
  
  DB, Elasti Cache, or SQL Server, ensuring compliance with SSA security policies and infrastructure requirements.
• Establish, refine, and maintain backup and recovery strategies for Oracle, DB2, Postgre
  
  SQL, RDS, Greenplum, Mongo
  
  DB, Elasti Cache, Spark, SQL Server, and additional platforms as required.
• Ensure all documentation, procedures, and operational artifacts are current, audit ready, and aligned with SSA standards.

• Ability to obtain and maintain US Public Trust Clearance
• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 8 years of experience in database engineering or administration across multiple DBMS platforms.
• Hands‑on experience administering Oracle, DB2, Postgre
  
  SQL, RDS, Greenplum, Mongo
  
  DB, Elasti Cache, and SQL Server in enterprise environments.
• Strong background in performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, parameter tuning, and platform‑specific monitoring tools.
• Proven experience implementing and supporting high availability and disaster recovery solutions, including RAC/Data Guard, Always On, streaming replication, replica sets, RDS multi‑AZ, and equivalent technologies.
• Demonstrated expertise with backup and recovery strategies, tools, and testing methodologies (e.g., RMAN, PITR, WAL archiving, SQL Server native backups, RDS snapshots).
• Experience with security configuration, encryption, auditing, access controls, and adherence to federal or agency‑specific security requirements.
• Ability to develop and maintain physical data models and align them with functional and non‑functional requirements.
• Ability to write automation scripts using SQL, Bash, Power Shell, Python, or equivalent scripting languages.
• Experience working in Linux/Unix and Windows server environments.
• Strong documentation skills and demonstrated…