Senior Database Engineer

The Repeatable Offerings Service Center (ROSC) at Leidos currently has an opening for a Senior Database Engineer to support our Blacksburg Virginia Enterprise IT Operations Center. This is a great opportunity to work with an elite team of database and systems professionals to maintain a secure environment for critical systems. Bring your own experience and work with our team to teach and learn while building, maintaining, and supporting our customer’s environments.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage database systems to include SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres and MySQL to support business applications, ensuring high availability, performance, and data integrity.
• Be able to provide cloud database solutions for customers using Azure or AWS.
• Perform database capacity planning and scalability assessments to accommodate future growth and optimize resource utilization.
• Maintain a strong understanding of Client/Server Architecture and how to securely deploy internally and externally.
• Monitor database systems to proactivity identify and resolve performance issues, bottlenecks, and data inconsistencies.
• Produce technical writing for both system integration and transition to operations teams.
• Work in hybrid multi-location operations team administering existing production environment.
• Implement and maintain database security measures to protect sensitive data, including access controls, encryption, and data masking techniques.
• Plan and execute database backups, disaster recovery procedures, and failover mechanisms to ensure data availability and business continuity for On-Prem and cloud solutions.
• Perform patch and security configuration activities to ensure databases under management are properly secured and up to date.
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize database design and query performance and provide support for database-related application issues.
• Stay current with database technologies, trends, and best practices, and recommend improvements or new technologies to enhance database performance and functionality.
• Lead and mentor junior DBAs, providing technical guidance and sharing best practices.
• Communicate well with Executives, Managers, Peers, and Customers.
• Support tickets and manage incidents, service requests, and problems through their full life cycle.
• Perform incident analysis to determine possible cause and potential fix.
• Primary responsibility will be SQL Server SME with cloud database knowledge but there is an expectation to be able to support other database platforms (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL) at some level.
• Available for on- call rotation (after clearance and first 90 days) every 2-3 weeks.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of experience or Master’s degree with 6 years of relevant experience, relevant experience will be considered in lieu of degree.
• Proven experience as a Database Administrator managing enterprise-level databases.
• Familiarity with database security principles and best practices.
• Strong proficiency in database administration, including installation, configuration, backup and recovery, security, and performance tuning.
• In-depth knowledge of management tools and utilities for each database platform
• Experience high availability and disaster recovery solutions the different platforms
• Must have senior experience with Microsoft SQL.
• Familiarity with AWS RDS features, such as automated backups, multi-AZ deployments, and read replicas.
• Knowledge of structured and nonstructured database platforms
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to analyze complex database issues.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• A US Citizen
•  Must be able to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance.
• Obtain a baseline 8570 certification [IAT Level II) CCNA-Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP] within 3 months of hire date.
• Must be willing and available for on call rotation every 2-3 weeks.

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant certifications, such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate (ExamDP-300).
• Experience with SQL based (MSSQL, Oracle, PostGreSQL) and NoSQL (MangoDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra, Couchbase).
• DoD secret clearance/Public Trust Clearance
• Has a 8570 Level II Security+ CE certification (i.e., Security +)

Original Posting:

April 24, 2025

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier th