Cloud Database Engineer

Location: Dayton / Fairborn, OH — Wright-Patterson Air Force Base area

Work Setting: 100% onsite in a secure SCIF environment; no hybrid or remote flexibility

Travel: Minimal, expected to be 10% or less

Compensation: Approximately $130,000–$186,000 base salary depending on experience and leveling

Benefits: 10% employer retirement contribution, 4+ weeks of PTO starting immediately, 100% tuition support, comprehensive medical and employee benefits, and potential sign-on assistance for qualified candidates

Security Clearance: Active TS/SCI clearance required on Day 1

Position Summary

A mission-driven research and development organization supporting U.S. national security is seeking a Staff Cloud Database Engineer / Architect to join a multidisciplinary technical team supporting highly classified work in the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base environment.

This is a senior, hands-on role combining enterprise database engineering, cloud architecture, performance optimization, and technical strategy. You’ll support a large existing database environment while helping evaluate future cloud and database technologies that could shape the customer’s long-term modernization roadmap.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced database professional who wants to move beyond traditional administration and play a meaningful role in architecture, technology evaluation, and modernization within a sophisticated national-security environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, manage, and optimize scalable, secure enterprise database and cloud infrastructure
• Support and improve large-scale database environments while helping define future architecture and technology direction
• Evaluate Oracle/OCI, AWS, Azure, and other database or cloud technologies for future modernization initiatives
• Develop database architectures supporting distributed data sources, platforms, applications, and classified environments
• Drive database performance through query optimization, indexing strategies, capacity planning, and infrastructure improvements
• Design and implement data security, backup, recovery, resiliency, and availability strategies
• Support data integration and interoperability across multiple platforms and environments
• Document database architectures, configurations, integrations, and technical recommendations
• Provide technical recommendations to customers and engineering leadership regarding future database and cloud investments
• Collaborate with software, RF, ELINT, cloud, database, and other technical specialists across a multidisciplinary engineering team

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of relevant database/cloud engineering experience OR Master’s degree with 6+ years of relevant experience
• Active TS/SCI security clearance required — inactive or previously held clearances cannot be considered
• Strong enterprise database engineering, administration, or architecture experience
• Experience with Oracle/OCI, AWS, Azure, or comparable enterprise database and cloud platforms
• Strong SQL, database design, data modeling, and performance tuning experience
  
  Experience with query optimization and indexing strategies
• Understanding of cloud database architecture, distributed data environments, and data integration
• Experience with database security, backup, recovery, availability, and resiliency
• Ability to evaluate technologies and make informed architectural recommendations
• Ability and willingness to work 100% onsite in a secure SCIF environment

Preferred Backgrounds

• Oracle and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• AWS or Azure cloud database environments
• Experience across multiple enterprise database technologies or cloud platforms
• Cloud migration, database modernization, or platform evaluation initiatives
• OCI Architect, OCI Implementation Specialist, or related cloud certifications
• Large-scale enterprise or highly distributed database environments
• Experience integrating data across secure or classified networks
• Defense, intelligence, Electronic Warfare, SIGINT, ELINT, or other national-security programs
• Experience advising government or enterprise customers on database architecture and technology strategy

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