Key skills
AWSDatabase AdministrationPerformance OptimizationData DesignMonitoringTroubleshootingIAT Level II CertificationProblem SolvingReliabilityEC2RDS
About this role
SAIC is 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.
Responsibilities:
- 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
- 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
Requirements:
- US Citizen and active Secret Clearance
- 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
- 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
- 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