About this opportunity
Riptide Technology lists this Senior PostgreSQL Database Engineer - Active TS/SCI required opportunity in washington, District of Columbia. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Riptide Technology is seeking a Senior Database Engineer (DBE) to support Research and Development (R&D) work at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC. The Senior DBE will design and build PostgreSQL databases that are capable of ingesting and storing high volumes of event data while maintaining optimal search performance. PostgreSQL database instances reside in both on-premise and cloud environments.
The Senior DBE will be part of a high-performing, multi-disciplinary development team and collaborate on all facets of the broader system’s design and implementation. This design and development work will include: design, planning, technology selection, architecture, schema design, data modeling, high volume load processes, performance tuning and data access APIs. The Sr DBE should be skilled in PostgreSQL database administration tasks, but this position requires an experienced database design engineer, not a database administrator.
Qualifications
Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Math, Computer Science, Network Engineering
In lieu of a Bachelor’s Degree an additional Four years of related work experience (plus any additional required experience) may be substituted
Required Experience: 12+ years of experience with relational databases (like PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase)
5+ years database design and development
4+ years of direct experience with PostgreSQL
Location: Work is primarily on-site at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.
Desired Qualifications
PostgreSQL Professional Certification
Experience working as member of multi-disciplinary development team. Ability to collaborate well with a broader engineering team: infrastructure, security, functional leads and application developers
Experience with Multi-node clusters, and cloud-based PostgreSQL configurations
Large time-series and geo-spatial event data sets
High-volume data loading techniques
Multi-level secure access controls and data security labeling
PostgreSQL performance tuning; Dynatrace, pgBench
Security Clearance Requirements
Security Clearance: This position will require U.S. citizenship and an active DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance is required to work at NRL
Riptide Technology, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer ensuring no employee or prospective employee will be discriminated against based on race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability status, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or marital status with regards to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion or rehiring.
Benefits: 6 weeks PTO; Immediately fully vested 401k, Company contribution equal to 10% of salary; Paid training; 100% Company paid Dental and Vision, Short and Long Term Disability and Life Insurance
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Worksite address
washington, DC, 20022, US
Who can apply
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