Principal​/Senior Principal Database Engineer; TS​/SCI Clearance

MUST HAVE TS/SCI WITH ABILITY TO OBTAIN A CI POLY CLEARANCE

For Principal Level: Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of relevant experience OR a Master's degree with 3+ years of relevant experience OR a PhD with no experience; an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree requirement.

For Senior Principal Level: Bachelor's degree with 9+ years of relevant experience OR a Master's degree with 7+ years of relevant experience OR a PhD with 41+ years of relevant experience; an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree requirement.

The selected candidate will work within a Production Operations team supporting data management processes, database engineering and management, deploying, maintaining, tuning, and enhancing database systems.

• Database engineering and management activities associated with high-volume, multi-format data management services.
• Maintains large-scale data management solutions including developing efficient storage, indexing, and access approaches.
• Updates data enterprise architecture models (if needed) and data abstraction layer to enable access to new data sources.
• Designs and implements indexing strategies for ingested data.
• Developing a strategy for continuous performance tuning of databases.

• Experience with Postgres, SQL, and database performance tuning.
• Experience installing application software in an operational environment.
• Experience with Agile, AWS, RDBMS technology, Elasticsearch, Linux.
• DoD IAT Level II certification.
• Active TS/SCI with ability to obtain a poly.

• Familiarity with No
  
  SQL technology (Hadoop and/or EMR).
• Familiarity with Graph database technology.
• Data modeling experience.

Shld, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, and veteran status, or any other protected class.