Database Engineer Security Clearance

Position: Database Engineer with Security Clearance
Description Seeking a Database Engineer with strong experience supporting enterprise-scale, cloud-hosted databases, primarily within AWS environments. This role focuses on database administration, performance optimization, data modeling, and operational reliability, ensuring high availability and efficiency for mission-critical systems. Target salary is $130-135k. (Please note this position is funded through March 2026 and most likely will push through June 2026). Primary Focus Areas
* Administer and optimize AWS-hosted databases.
* Design and maintain efficient, scalable data models.
* Monitor and tune database performance.
* Troubleshoot data integrity and system issues.
* Ensure reliability, availability, and performance of enterprise data platforms.

Key Responsibilities
* Manage enterprise databases hosted on AWS RDS and EC2.
* Perform database performance tuning (query optimization, indexing, configuration).
* Design and optimize schemas, tables, indexes, and views.
* Identify and resolve data inconsistencies and database-related issues.
* Support database reliability, scalability, and operational health.
* Monitor database performance using metrics and monitoring tools. Qualifications US Citizen and active Secret Clearance. Core Technical Skills
* Certification: 8570 certification in IAT Level II certification or above (Security+ CE, CASP+ CE, CISSP, etc.)
* Cloud Platforms: AWS (RDS, EC2-hosted databases).
* Database Administration:
Backup/recovery, configuration, tuning.
* Performance Optimization:
Query tuning, index management, execution plan analysis.
* Data Design:
Schema and relational data modeling.
* Monitoring:
Performance metrics, alerting, and health dashboards.
* Bachelor's and nine (9) or relevant years of experience in lieu of degree. Problem Solving & Reliability
* Strong troubleshooting skills for data integrity and performance issues.
* Ability to quickly diagnose root causes of database incidents.
* Experience maintaining uptime and system stability in production environments. Preferred
* Database Administrator (DBA) transitioning into a cloud-focused engineer role.
* Backend or platform engineer with deep database tuning experience.
* Cloud engineer with strong RDS and data performance background.
* Engineers supporting high-volume or mission-critical systems.
* Experience with automation or infrastructure-as-code around databases.
* Exposure to multi-environment (dev/test/prod) database support.
* Familiarity with enterprise monitoring and alerting platforms. Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.