Senior Database Engineer with Poly
Hanover, Maryland, US
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Senior Database Engineer Location:On-Site at Customer Location (Annapolis Junction, MD) Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Poly
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What you’ll work on
Full postingIn this role, you’ll work onsite at the assigned customer location, ensuring optimized database performance and delivering solutions that directly impact national security.
Optimize Performance: Monitor databases and related systems to ensure they are running efficiently and effectively.
Collaborate with Developers: Work closely with developers throughout the application development lifecycle to build features that deliver value to our customers.
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Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Poly Are you ready to take your database engineering expertise to the next level and support mission-critical operations? BigBear.ai is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to join our team and assist in meeting the needs of our government customer. In this role, you’ll work onsite at the assigned customer location, ensuring optimized database performance and delivering solutions that directly impact national security. If you’re passionate about database management, agile development, and building scalable solutions, we want to hear from you! What you will do
What you will do Optimize Performance: Monitor databases and related systems to ensure they are running efficiently and effectively. Support Agile Development: Participate in agile activities, including release planning, sprint planning, and retrospectives, to incorporate lessons learned into engineering processes.
Model Data: Design local schemas, tables, data types, indexes, procedures, and functions to support mission needs. Collaborate with Developers: Work closely with developers throughout the application development lifecycle to build features that deliver value to our customers. What you need to have
What you’ll bring
All qualificationsCore experience
- Experience: Bachelor’s Degree and 10+ years of database experience.
- Experience with Django or Flask frameworks.
- Familiarity with REST endpoints and microservices.
- Proficiency with IDEs such as Visual Studio Code or similar.
- Experience with Jira and Confluence for project management.
Qualification wording
Experience: Bachelor’s Degree and 10+ years of database experience.
Experience with Django or Flask frameworks.
Familiarity with REST endpoints and microservices.
Proficiency with IDEs such as Visual Studio Code or similar.
Experience with Jira and Confluence for project management.
Tools in this posting
- AWS
- MongoDB
- Django
- Flask
- Docker
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- Swagger for API documentation. - Cloud experience with AWS, C2S, or other platforms. - Containerization tools like Docker.
- Clearance: TS/SCI with Poly (required). - Technical Expertise:- Proficiency in database technologies such as MongoDB or MariaDB, including:- Deployment and management of the database itself. - Debugging and resolving optimization issues.
- Scaling databases to meet performance demands. - Experience with Django or Flask frameworks. - Familiarity with REST endpoints and microservices.
- Cloud experience with AWS, C2S, or other platforms. - Containerization tools like Docker. - Proficiency with IDEs such as Visual Studio Code or similar.
About Bigbear.ai Holdings Inc
BigBear.ai is a leading provider of AI-powered decision intelligence solutions for national security, supply chain management, and digital identity.
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Job description
All applicants must reside in the United States at the time of application.
Overview
Senior Database Engineer
On-Site at Customer Location (Annapolis Junction, MD)
Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Poly
Are you ready to take your database engineering expertise to the next level and support mission-critical operations? BigBear.ai is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to join our team and assist in meeting the needs of our government customer. In this role, you’ll work onsite at the assigned customer location, ensuring optimized database performance and delivering solutions that directly impact national security. If you’re passionate about database management, agile development, and building scalable solutions, we want to hear from you!
What you will do
- Optimize Performance: Monitor databases and related systems to ensure they are running efficiently and effectively.
- Support Agile Development: Participate in agile activities, including release planning, sprint planning, and retrospectives, to incorporate lessons learned into engineering processes.
- Model Data: Design local schemas, tables, data types, indexes, procedures, and functions to support mission needs.
- Collaborate with Developers: Work closely with developers throughout the application development lifecycle to build features that deliver value to our customers.
What you need to have
- Experience: Bachelor’s Degree and 10+ years of database experience.
- Clearance: TS/SCI with Poly (required).
- Technical Expertise:
- Proficiency in database technologies such as MongoDB or MariaDB, including:
- Deployment and management of the database itself.
- Debugging and resolving optimization issues.
- Scaling databases to meet performance demands.
- Experience with Django or Flask frameworks.
- Familiarity with REST endpoints and microservices.
- Proficiency in database technologies such as MongoDB or MariaDB, including:
What we'd like you to have
- Swagger for API documentation.
- Cloud experience with AWS, C2S, or other platforms.
- Containerization tools like Docker.
- Proficiency with IDEs such as Visual Studio Code or similar.
- JSON and/or XML serialization.
- Experience with Jira and Confluence for project management.
- Git version control for collaborative development.
- Agile development methodologies.
Pay transparency
Please note the targeted compensation range is provided as an estimate, and any actual compensation offer may vary depending on the needs of the company, or an applicant's skillset, competencies, experience, education, certifications, location, or other factors. The estimated range does not include the value of any benefits offered.
About BigBear.ai
BigBear.ai is a leading provider of AI-powered decision intelligence solutions for national security, supply chain management, and digital identity. Customers and partners rely on Bigbear.ai’s predictive analytics capabilities in highly complex, distributed, mission-based operating environments. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, BigBear.ai is a public company traded on the NYSE under the symbol BBAI. For more information, visit https://bigbear.ai/ and follow BigBear.ai on LinkedIn: @BigBear.ai and X: @BigBearai.
BigBear.ai is an Equal opportunity employer all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.
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Senior Database Engineer Location:On-Site at Customer Location (Annapolis Junction, MD) Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Poly
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