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Database Engineer

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Warrenton, VA
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Job Description

Database Engineer

Warrenton / Tysons, VA

TS/SCI with Poly

At Bcore, our strength comes from how we deliver impact to the mission. Whether it's architecting critical IT solutions, producing actionable intelligence, or developing cutting edge technology, we succeed because of the expertise, collaboration, and agility of our teams. Our Mission Services division combines enterprise IT, cloud solutions, DevSecOps, systems engineering, software development, and operational support. Bcore accelerates decisive advantage for warfighters and intelligence professionals by fusing human insight, rapid-fire engineering, precision-measured outcomes, and relentless grit into mission-ready solutions.

Do you want to join a team that is building tailored technical solutions to modernize our government's mission and our client's business? Do you have a desire to change how people work? Are you interested in helping to protect our nation's cyber interests? Join our growing team supporting customer missions as a Database Engineer in Warrenton / Tysons, Virginia .

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for relational database technologies
  • Document and analyze current-state (as-is) database environments while promptly coming up to speed
  • Develop comprehensive engineering design documents for modernization, optimization, and transformation initiatives for the database to align with the organization technical vision
  • Lead implementation of enhanced and future-state database architectures
  • Design, deploy, configure, optimize, secure, and maintain database platforms across hybrid environments
  • Collaborate closely with the department engineering teams, including Network, Storage, Windows and Linux Systems Operating, Cloud, Web Services, Software Development, Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO), and DevOps
  • Partner with Software Engineers, Data Engineers (ETL), Data Modelers, Data Scientists, and Data Analysts
  • Ensure high availability, performance tuning, security hardening, and compliance adherence
  • Provide database governance, standards, and best practices across the enterprise


Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
  • Minimum ten (10) years of related database technologies experience

Relational Database Platforms
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Oracle Database
  • PostgreSQL (on-prem and cloud variants)
  • MySQL
  • Amazon RDS / Azure SQL Database / Google Cloud SQL

Cloud Platforms
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Core Technical Competencies
  • Database architecture and engineering design
  • High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR)
  • Performance tuning and query optimization
  • Backup and recovery strategies
  • Database security, encryption, and compliance
  • Migration from on-prem to cloud and hybrid environments
  • Linux and Windows server environments
  • Scripting and automation (PowerShell, Bash, Python)
  • CI/CD integration for database deployments

Desired Qualifications:
  • Database containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Database monitoring tools (SolarWinds, Redgate, OEM, Cloud-native monitoring)
  • Data replication and distributed systems
  • Data warehouse platforms (Snowflake, Redshift, Azure Synapse)
  • ETL frameworks and tools
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM, CloudFormation)
  • Massively Parallel Processing database administration experience (MPP DBA)
  • Ansible (or similar IT automation tools like Puppet or Chef)
  • Supporting federal government compliance frameworks
  • Knowledge of Zero Trust architectures
  • Supporting mission-critical or high-transaction environments


What you can expect from us

BCore is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.
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