Database Engineer

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Have you ever wondered how the food you eat is deemed to be safe, or how pharmaceutical companies are inspected to ensure the drugs they produce meet FDA regulations? If so, we have a very large new program with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and would love to have you join us!

Project Overview:

We are modernizing FDA cloud infrastructure with a focus on procurement, migration, and optimization using AWS. This project aims to improve cloud operations, enhance security, and automate processes for mission-critical applications.

REI is looking for a Database Engineer to design and implement robust, industry-focused database solutions that align with cloud modernization efforts. As a Database Engineer, you will be a key contributor to both consulting strategies and the success of our clients. REI's growth trajectory ensures that Database Engineers will immediately influence database architecture, optimization strategies, and team development, working closely with clients and REI core members. In addition to expertise in database design and optimization, REI Database Engineers develop specialized knowledge in various client industries.

Position Overview:

The Database Engineer will work directly with project stakeholders throughout the entire project lifecycle to define, design, and implement scalable and efficient database solutions. This role involves designing, implementing, and optimizing database systems to support cloud-based applications while ensuring data integrity and performance. The engineer will interface independently with client technical teams and business owners to ensure successful database integration and support the overall project goals. Additionally, this role involves mentoring junior team members on best practices for database engineering and implementation methodologies. Other professional duties may be assigned as needed.

Provide operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for complex database management systems architected using a microservices framework.
• Maintain and scale enterprise level databases as a part of technical solution to meet customer objectives and project requirements.
• Monitor and configure database systems and databases to achieve optimum performance levels; Perform indexing, data partitioning and performance tuning as required.
• Support complex database software installations, patching and upgrades to operating systems and related database software packages
• Document backup and recovery procedures, perform backups, automate and monitor logging.
• Support database data integrity by implementing and managing appropriate solutions of varying complexities.
• Support external audits and conduct audits of databases to ensure compliance with established standards, policies, and configuration guidelines.
• Leverage open-source platforms, tools, databases, front-end frameworks, and middleware.

• 5+ years of experience designing, developing and managing enterprise-level Oracle database versions 12c and 19c.
• 2+ years of experience with reference data management, schema segregation/consolidation, database consolidation/segregation, container and pluggable database creation and porting to cloud-based environments, preferably AWS RDS.
• Strong PL/SQL skills using Advanced Collections and Oracle-supplied Built-in Packages.
• Ability to work with functional application DBAs and address the data and processing quality issues and develop solutions.
• Ability to find database structure and configuration level issues at domain and integrity-level constraints, check constraints, and list, range, hybrid and partitioning.
• Exposure to Programming Logic and Techniques in any of the Object-Oriented Languages connecting to read from and write to Oracle Databases.
• Ability to demonstrate the proper techniques used for database backup and restoration, managing database performance and performing typical security lockdown procedures.
• Extensive experience in ETL, process mapping, and data transformation
• Experience with improving performance on enterprise applications with large data.
• Be up to date on the current technology landscape, be technology agnostic, and have a passion for staying current and experimenting with new approaches and tools.
• Able to communicate effectively with high-level U.S. Government, senior management, internal customers, and external partners.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipeline

Educational Qualifications:

BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent

Clearance: Eligible to obtain a public trust clearance.

Location: Hybrid (One day per week or as needed in the REI Sterling Office)

EEO Statement: REI Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer. In our workplace, we seek, we welcome, and respect diversity in all of its forms.

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