Power BI Engineer

Database Server Design Engineer Senior

TEKsystems is seeking a Database Server Design Engineer Senior to support a client in New Orleans, LA. This engineer is responsible for the full lifecycle engineering, design, implementation, administration, optimization, and support of enterprise database and server environments. This role provides technical leadership in systems analysis, performance tuning, capacity management, virtualization, security compliance, and disaster recovery while ensuring highly available and scalable solutions that support mission requirements.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist the Government Lead in the daily engineering duties of systems.
• Determine current levels of system and application resource utilization and performance.
• Construct analytical models describing utilization and performance of multiple database platforms and associated systems.
• Analyze system logs and monitor performance to identify and resolve resource deficiencies.
• Support implementation and operation of forward upgrades for network capacity and applications.
• Design and implement systems to analyze and report levels of utilization and performance.
• Oversee storage of logical and physical information data.
• Recommend parameters to regulate production workloads and prevent resource utilization and reporting service-level objective violations.
• Provide capacity planning and capacity management audits.
• Perform database server design, server file structures, design review, process definition, database modeling, database administration, and database performance analysis.
• Design physical and logical database structures and implement data schemas for business requirements.
• Design, test, and document database integration and virtualization solutions.
• Provide and maintain Hyper-V virtual systems integration and server installations on various server hardware platforms.
• Troubleshoot and resolve system and application performance issues.
• Design and engineer services for administrators, users, and groups utilizing Windows Power Shell scripting.
• Design application networking ports and protocols.
• Implement Active Directory services, including:
• User and group administration
• Password authentication and access management
• User profile management
• Configuration and security policy implementation
• Implement Directory Services providing authentication to enterprise applications and trusted relationships between users, devices, applications, services, and other resources.
• Develop and maintain identity and access management requirements.
• Perform identity management, credential management, and access management functions.
• Possess the ability to operate and integrate all of the following technologies:
• Microsoft Access
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Oracle Database Management Systems (DBMS)
• Microsoft and Linux operating systems

Required Technical Skills

• Operating Systems
• Microsoft Windows Server (including Server Update Services)
• Linux
• Hyper-V
• VMware
• Database Technologies
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Oracle Database
• Directory & Identity Management
• Active Directory (AD)
• LDAP
• Authentication and Access Management
• Scripting & Development
• Windows Power Shell
• C#
• Java
• Networking & Infrastructure
• Network design and administration
• Server installation and configuration
• Capacity planning and performance management
• Virtualization integration
• Disaster recovery planning

Desired Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing enterprise-scale database and server infrastructures.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Experience supporting secure DoD or government IT environments.
• Knowledge of information assurance, cybersecurity controls, and compliance requirements.
• Ability to lead technical projects and provide engineering recommendations to government leadership