Database Engineering Associate

About the Role

As an Associate Database Engineer on the GovCloud Database team, you will help deliver scalable data migration, capacity management, and cloud infrastructure improvements. You will contribute to technology solutions for the diverse needs of government cloud customers, ensuring databases and applications run smoothly. This role is for database automation engineers ready to take on challenges and drive innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement innovative ideas to improve performance, scalability, and resilience in a large-scale platform.
• Implement comprehensive functional and system tests for your area of responsibility and for overall database quality.
• Debug, conduct root cause analysis, and diagnose defects.
• Participate in database automation and feature enhancement on premises and in public cloud platforms.
• Take responsibility and accountability for the availability and reliability of all production databases.
• Work with other Engineering teams to triage issues.
• Define, develop, and deploy system monitoring requirements and thresholds, as well as corrective actions.
• Improve system reliability through predictive analysis.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and provide detailed feedback on resiliency initiatives.
• Participate in production Incident Management and Escalation Management calls and drive incidents to resolution.
• Provide technical and platform support to customers and stakeholders using production systems.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Python
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS)
• 0-2 years of experience deploying distributed applications using containers (Docker) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, EKS, GKE).
• 0-2 years of hands-on AWS experience, including building and operating production-grade infrastructure.
• 0-2 years of database engineering experience (relational, NoSQL, or both).
• 0-2 years of Linux system engineering experience.
• 0-2 years of scripting or programming experience in Shell, Python, and/or Golang.
• Willing and ready to participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation.

Qualifications

• Strong background in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Located in North America.
• U.S. citizen (U.S. born or naturalized) operating on U.S. Soil, without dual citizenship, and with the ability to meet customer and government screening standards, including a Criminal Justice Information Services screening with fingerprint scan.
• Agreement to complete a Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) for a Moderate Public Trust position with the U.S. federal government and gain other clearances as deemed appropriate for the role.

Even Better If You Have

• Practical experience using AI tools, such as AI coding assistants or generative AI.
• Experience with log management and analytics platforms such as Splunk or the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana).
• Kubernetes.
• Cybersecurity fundamentals.
• Experience with PostgreSQL.
• Experience with monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus, etc.