Database Engineer

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K ’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

• Innovative Projects:
  At K , you'll be working on cutting-edge projects that support the Department of the Air Force’s most mission-critical operations. Our team is pushing the boundaries of open-source development, Dev Sec Ops  with state-of-the-art CI/CD pipelines, containerization, Kubernetes, Terraform, Zarf, and innovative API management and database design. You'll be contributing to systems designed for a modeling and simulation SaaS platform that provides dynamic compute power, access to tools, and collaboration capability through a model that will revolutionize the future of military research and development.
• Collaborative Environment:
  Our team thrives in a dynamic, mission-driven environment where our employees work shoulder-to-shoulder with software engineers, Dev Sec Ops  architects, product leads, mission experts, and defense specialists. We embrace Agile methodologies and secure development practices to ensure rapid iteration, compliance alignment, and seamless integration across modular systems. Our culture prioritizes clarity, precision, and innovation—fostering open communication, iterative refinement, and deep collaboration to deliver software and documentation that’s not only compliant, but strategic and impactful across DoD.
• Impactful Work:
  Your work here will directly support the Department of the Air Force in advancing defense technology. You’ll be at the forefront of innovations, creating new paradigms for providing access to compute power, modeling and simulation tools, and data sharing across organizations to the Department of the Air Force and broader Department of Defense.

K  is seeking a motivated and technically capable Database Engineer to support the development, deployment, and sustainment of the GEMSTONE platform. The Database Engineer will support the design, implementation, administration, automation, and optimization of mission-critical data services that enable platform operations, user applications, digital engineering workflows, analytics, warfighter AI/ML capabilities, and cross-organizational data sharing. The successful candidate will work closely with software engineers, platform engineers, Dev Sec Ops  engineers, cybersecurity personnel, and government stakeholders to ensure scalable, secure, and performant data management solutions.

• Design, develop, configure, and maintain relational, non-relational, distributed, and/or leaderless database solutions supporting GEMSTONE platform services and applications across multiple versions.
• Support deployment and sustainment of databases used by microservices in containerized Kubernetes environments.
• Assist with database schema design, data modeling, indexing strategies, and query optimization.
• Develop automated database provisioning, backup, recovery, replication, and migration capabilities using Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Support implementation of data governance, audit logging, access control, and cybersecurity requirements.
• Monitor database health, performance, storage utilization, and availability.
• Troubleshoot database performance, connectivity, and operational issues.
• Assist software engineering teams with database integration and API-driven data access patterns.
• Support data persistence requirements for user applications, digital engineering artifacts, simulation outputs, and platform services.
• Participate in Dev Sec Ops , Agile, and CI/CD activities.
• Contribute to technical documentation, architecture products, and operational procedures.
• Support deployment of solutions across cloud, hybrid, and potentially disconnected operational environments.

• Location:
  
  Onsite or hybrid-Dayton, OH
• Travel Requirements:
  None
• Working Hours:
  
  Standard

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software…