Database Engineer Job Listing at SAIC in REMOTE WORK, TX (Job ID 2601286)

Description

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.

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