Leidos
A science and technology solutions leader.Through our culture of innovation and history of performance, we develop deep customer trust built on integrity and create enduring solutions that improve our world. Leidos is a science and technology solutions leader working to address some of the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and healthcare markets. The company’s 38,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $11.09 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2020. Leidos was cited for the meaningful work employees perform that is challenging, impactful, and aligned with our customers’ missions as reasons professionals want to work and stay at our company. Leidos has also been named to lists including Forbes’ Best Employers for Diversity, Forbes’ America’s Best Employers for Women, Military Times Best for Vets Employers, and Ethisphere Institute’s World's Most Ethical Companies®.
Headquarter Location:
Reston, Virginia, USA
Leidos is hiring a Remote Database Engineer
Job Description
Leidos Australia have a permanent full-time or contract opportunity for a Database Engineer (Postgres on REHL) to join our team in a role that offers great flexible work arrangements including remote work. Reporting to the Program Technical Lead and working within our team responsible for the implementation, support and maintenance of a large enterprise environment you will be responsible for supporting the customer platform, tuning system performance, installing system wide software, and supporting database hardware and software.
As a talented member of our multidisciplinary teams, you will rapidly grow and progress with us across a diverse and influential Federal Government and Defence portfolio. This is a rare opportunity to join the team who gets to influence programs today that will redefine the customer’s business tomorrow.
In this role you will perform the following functions as individual assignments or as part of a team:
- Perform Level 2 and 3 platform support including management and administration of PostgresSQL database products on RedHat;
- Implement and test database upgrades;
- Design and implement data migration activities;
- Maintain database design and implementation documentation;
- Implement organisational objectives for database improvement and compliance with industry standards;
- Provide solutions to a variety of technical problems of moderate scope and complexity
- Maintaining currency of the environment, where possible.
- Develops and configures tools to enable automation of database administration tasks.
- Source and analyse relevant subject matter documentation
- Contribute to IT Support process and policy development
- Providing input into policies, procedures, and SOP’s relating to maintenance and management of the operational database infrastructure. Interact with users and technical subject matter experts to ensure delivery is fit for purpose.
- Produce enterprise database designs and make recommendations for upgrades, designs and implementations will be advantage.
Qualifications
About You and What You'll Bring
Coupled with your education and practical experience, you will demonstrate a pro-active approach with the ability to understand the business, identify issues and develop relationships to achieve the company’s objectives. You will also have:
- Substantial professional experience working in a role within an engineering or project environment (preferably in a similar industry)
- Strong Skills/Experience with PostgreSQL is required.
- Knowledge and application of a broad range of skills including software, systems and enterprise architecture, software and hardware engineering, interface protocols
- Substantial experience working in a large enterprise environments
Skills
- Strong individual contributor and team player in a professional environment
- Highly effective in managing multiple, concurrent activities, while understanding and managing priorities, dependencies and risk
- Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills
- Good initiative in developing and improving systems and procedures
- Ability to independently develop and determine approaches to solutions in a practical and creative manner
- Strong conceptual, analytical and interpretive skills with high level of attention to details
- Strong focus on customer service
- Strong planning and organising skills
- Experience with MS SQL and other database technologies are highly regarded.
- Experience with Ansible or infrastructure as code preferred.
- Experience with Liquibase highly regarded.
This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen hold and maintain or be willing to undergo a Baseline Security Clearance.
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