Database Engineer

Leidos currently has an opening for a Database Administrator to support our Blacksburg Virginia Enterprise IT Operations Center remotely. 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 environments.

Primary Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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 proactively identify and resolve performance issues, bottlenecks, and data inconsistencies.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 causes and potential fix.
• Primary responsibility will be SQL Server 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 4 years of prior relevant experience or Master’s with 2 years experience.  Additional years of 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.
• Knowledge of management tools and utilities for each database platform
• Experience SQL Server Availability Groups
• 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.
• Obtain a baseline 8570 certification [IAT Level II) CCNA-Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP] within 3 months of hire date.
• Must have a US Citizenship.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• Must be willing to rotate an after hours, on-call schedule with the team every 2-3 weeks.

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant certifications, such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate (ExamDP-300).
• DOD or DOJ clearance.
• DoD secret clearance.
• 8570 Level II Security+ CE certification (IAT).

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Original Posting:

May 6, 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 than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $85,150.00 - $153,925.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibili