Database Engineer/Oracle Database Administrator

Job Description

Company: Open Systems Technologies Corporation
Location: Maryland (MD)
Workplace Type: On-site
Employment Type: Permanent

About the Role

Open Systems Technologies Corporation (OST) is looking for a Database Engineer/Oracle Database Administrator to join a high-performing team providing support to the Intelligence Community.

The selected candidate will support a complex system with exacting interface, performance, and security requirements, and will provide database engineering expertise in one or more of the following areas: architecture, design, development, requirements analysis, data flow, network design/implementation, testing, and documentation. You will analyze user requirements and system requirements specifications and will develop system architecture and system design documentation, as well as support the development of system configuration documentation (including designs for capacity and performance planning).

The selected individual will perform database engineering activities to include risk assessments and analyses of alternatives for a variety of system-related issues and concerns, providing solutions to challenging technical problems in distributed data replication, concurrent data access, and high availability.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

• Provide guidance and support for database engineering of large-scale systems, major system elements, and interfacing systems that are part of a large complex network environment with geographically distributed components.
• Interface with technical managers, system and software integration engineers, test engineers, information assurance engineers, and other project team members in an Agile environment.
• Implement database engineering practices to ensure the proper degree of engineering rigor is applied to all assigned tasks.
• Communicate and effectively collaborate with internal technical professionals on a day-to-day basis, and with POCs from customer organizations when necessary.
• Actively participate in Program Increment (PI) Planning and related Agile team activities.
• Support database design, development, implementation, information storage and retrieval, data flow, and analysis activities.
• Support the analysis and evaluation of system improvements, optimization, development, and/or maintenance efforts.
• Support the development of long-term and short-term requirements for database administration and design.
• Assist in developing databases, database parser software, and database loading software.
• Translate requirements and data into usable database schemas by creating or recreating ad hoc queries, scripts and macros, making updates to existing queries, and creating new queries to manipulate data into a master file.
• Develop requirement recommendations from a project’s inception to its conclusion for a particular Business and IT subject matter area (i.e., simple to complex systems).
• Develop and assist in the development of database structures that fit into the overall architecture of the system under development.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Clearance Required: Active TS/SCI with FS Polygraph. (Polygraph must have been completed in the last 5 years).
• Experience as a Database Administrator to include proficiency in tasks such as data migration, data replication, user administration, backup and recovery, performance tuning, issue investigation, issue resolution, and general administration.
• Good understanding of databases, primarily Oracle and/or other relational and non-relational/NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
• Experience using Oracle SQL/PLSQL, and SQL in general.
• Experience scripting with JavaScript, Bash/Linux shell scripting (in general), Perl, and/or Python.
• Knowledge of programming languages to include Java.
• Capable of performing high-quality work both independently, and with a team, in a fast-moving environment.
• Able to effectively plan and prioritize tasking.
• Committed to adopting and adhering to best practices.

Preferred / Bonus Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical discipline.
• At least 10 years of high-level, in-depth database experience.
• Experience with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology and/or as a member of an Agile team.
• Experience with Cassandra.
• Experience with MongoDB.

Benefits & Perks

• Paid Time Off: 3 weeks of paid time off.
• Holidays: 11 Paid Federal Holidays.
• Health Coverage: Medical and dental coverage.
• Insurance: Short-Term Disability (STD), Long-Term Disability (LTD), Life Insurance, and AD&D.
• Retirement: 401k with up to a 4% company match.
• Profit Sharing: End of year profit sharing paid out in the 401k.

Note: Our company OST has been operating since 1996 and has various contracts with Government agencies. If not located at the MD location, some short-duration travel may be required to support quarterly PI Planning sessions in MD.