Database Engineer – Journeyman

The Database Engineer - Journeyman will design, implement, and optimize database systems that support enterprise-scale data environments. This role focuses on performance, reliability, security, and availability while partnering with engineering teams to integrate databases into data pipelines and applications.

This position supports database administration, backup and recovery, high availability, automation, and capacity planning. The role also helps establish standards and documentation that strengthen resilience and operational readiness across the data environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design logical and physical database structures that support performance, scalability, and data integrity.

• Tune database performance through indexing, query optimization, and resource configuration.

• Implement backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies to protect data availability.

• Manage database security controls, including access management, encryption, and auditing.

• Deploy and maintain high availability solutions such as clustering, replication, and failover configurations.

• Automate routine database administration and monitoring tasks through scripts and tools.

• Integrate databases with ETL pipelines, applications, and data processing frameworks.

• Conduct capacity planning and evaluate emerging database technologies for operational use.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

• At least 4 years of database engineering or database administration experience in complex environments.

• Demonstrated experience with database design, performance tuning, backup and recovery, and security.

• Experience supporting database integration with data pipelines or application environments.

• Experience with database monitoring, troubleshooting, and lifecycle support.

• Must meet DoD 8140 requirements.

• Active Secret clearance.

• U.S. citizenship.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud-managed databases such as AWS RDS or Azure SQL.

• Working knowledge of both SQL and NoSQL technologies.

• Certification such as Oracle DBA, Microsoft Azure Database, or AWS Database Specialty.

• Experience supporting federal or government data environments.

Compensation Ranges

Compensation ranges for ASM Research positions vary depending on multiple factors; including but not limited to, location, skill set, level of education, certifications, client requirements, contract-specific affordability, government clearance and investigation level, and years of experience. The compensation displayed for this role is a general guideline based on these factors and is unique to each role. Monetary compensation is one component of ASM's overall compensation and benefits package for employees.

EEO Requirements

It is the policy of ASM that an individual's race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation or national origin are not and will not be considered in any personnel or management decisions. We affirm our commitment to these fundamental policies.

All recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting for all job classifications is done without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, or age. All decisions on employment are made to abide by the principle of equal employment.

Physical Requirements

The physical requirements described in "Knowledge, Skills and Abilities" above are representative of those which must be met by an employee to successfully perform the primary functions of this job. (For example, "light office duties' or "lifting up to 50 pounds" or "some travel" required.) Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with qualifying disabilities, who are otherwise qualified, to perform the primary functions.

Disclaimer

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.