Database Engineer

Role - Database Engineer Rate - $64/hr on C2C Work Auth - All Except H1B 6-month contract opportunity Hybrid schedule working 2 days a week onsite in the Washington, DC office. Just steps from the metro JOB DESCRIPTION The position's essential duties include the following: Administers, maintains, develops and implements policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of company databases. Implements data models and database designs, data access and table maintenance codes; resolves database performance issues, database capacity issues, replication, and other distributed data issues. Formulates and implements backup procedures for all company databases. Perform database related development as dictated by departmental or project demands. Experience with cloud database technologies (ie. AWS RDS, Oracle, MS SQL, Azure). Familiarity with AWS Cloud products (EC2, EBS, S3, Lambda, Aurora, Dynamo DB, EMR, DMS data migration, Athena, Glue, Kinesis, SQS/SNS, etc.). Exposure to the automation tools /scripting or processes. Knowledge of PostgreSQL and Oracle. Solid technical experience as a Database Administrator, as well as excellent interpersonal and communication skills. DB Concept on Security, Backup and recovery strategies, performance tuning, System Copies, high availability and disaster recovery strategy, export-import, replication is must. Hands-on experience with operating high-uptime Databases in both AWS and on-premises environments. Solid problem solving and analytical skills; able to quickly digest any issue/problem encountered and recommend an appropriate solution. Must be able to demonstrate experience with performance management/measurement methods, tools, and techniques. Ability to organize and plan work independently. Type of Experience: 4-6 years of increasing responsibility administering, optimizing, and maintaining PostgreSQL and Oracle databases Demonstrated skill of formulating best practice recommendations for database operations, including backup strategy, data security and cloud platform AWS Cloud Database Technologies: DynamoDB, AWS CLI, EC2, EBS, S3, Lambda, Aurora, EMR, DMS data migration, Athena, Glue, Kinesis, SQS/SNS, etc. Automation Tools: Puppet, Ansible AWS Cloud Formation: Terraform, Kubernetes Database Querying Languages: PostgreSQL, Oracle Log Analysis: Database Cloud observability/monitoring tools Splunk, Solarwinds EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree with a strong academic record. Length of Experience: The minimum amount of total work-related experience required is 6 years for the position. This means experience in a related area or time spent performing similar work that provides the background for the current position.