Job Description

Description

1901 Group at Leidos currently has an opening for a Senior SQL Database Engineer to support our Blacksburg Virginia Enterprise IT Operations Center. This is a great opportunity to work with an elite team of database and systems professionals to maintain a secure environment for critical systems. Bring your own experience and work with our team to teach and learn while building, maintaining, and supporting our customer environments.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and manage SQL database systems to support business applications, ensuring high availability, performance, and data integrity.
• Perform database capacity planning and scalability assessments to accommodate future growth and optimize resource utilization.
• Maintain strong understanding of Client/Server Architecture and how to securely deploy internally and externally.
• Monitor SQL database systems to proactivity identify and resolve performance issues, bottlenecks, and data inconsistencies.
• Produce technical writing for both system integration and transition to operations teams.
• Work in hybrid multi-location operations team administering existing production environment.
• Implement and maintain database security measures to protect sensitive data, including access controls, encryption, and data masking techniques.
• Plan and execute database backups, disaster recovery procedures, and failover mechanisms to ensure data availability and business continuity.
• Perform patch and security configuration activities to ensure databases under management are properly secured and up to date.
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize database design and query performance and provide support for database-related application issues.
• Stay current with SQL database technologies, trends, and best practices, and recommend improvements or new technologies to enhance database performance and functionality.
• Lead and mentor junior SQL DBAs, providing technical guidance and sharing best practices.
• Communicate well with Executives, Managers, Peers, and Customers.
• Support tickets and manage incidents, service requests, and problems through their full life cycle.
• Perform incident analysis to determine possible cause and potential fix.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree and 8+ years of experience or Master\xe2\x80\x99s degree with 6+ years of relevant experience, relevant experience will be considered in lieu of degree.
• Proven experience as an SQL Database Administrator managing enterprise-level databases.
• Familiarity with SQL database security principles and best practices.
• Strong proficiency in SQL database administration, including installation, configuration, backup and recovery, security, and performance tuning.
• In-depth knowledge of SQL Server management tools and utilities, such as SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), SQL Server Agent, and SQL Server Profiler.
• Experience with SQL Server high availability and disaster recovery solutions, such as Always on Availability Groups and Database Mirroring.
• Familiarity with AWS RDS features, such as automated backups, multi-AZ deployments, and read replicas.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to analyze complex SQL database issues.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• A US Citizen who can obtain a DoD secret clearance.
• Obtain a baseline 8570 certification [(IAT Level II) CCNA-Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP].

Preferred Qualifications:

• Relevant certifications, such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate (ExamDP-300).
• 8570 Level II Security+ CE certification (IAT).

Pay Range: Pay Range $97,500.00 - $150,000.00 - $202,500.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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