Database Engineer

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KBRs National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security this position your work will have a profound impact on the countrys most critical role protecting our national security.

Why Join Us

• Innovative Projects: At KBR youll be working on cutting-edge projects that support the Department of the Air Forces most mission-critical operations. Our team is pushing the boundaries of open-source development DevSecOps with state-of-the-art CI/CD pipelines containerization Kubernetes Terraform Zarf and innovative API management and database design. Youll be contributing to systems designed for a modeling and simulation SaaS platform that provides dynamic compute power access to tools and collaboration capability through a model that will revolutionize the future of military research and development.

• Collaborative Environment: Our team thrives in a dynamic mission-driven environment where our employees work shoulder-to-shoulder with software engineers DevSecOps architects product leads mission experts and defense specialists. We embrace Agile methodologies and secure development practices to ensure rapid iteration compliance alignment and seamless integration across modular systems. Our culture prioritizes clarity precision and innovationfostering open communication iterative refinement and deep collaboration to deliver software and documentation thats not only compliant but strategic and impactful across DoD.

• Impactful Work: Your work here will directly support the Department of the Air Force in advancing defense technology. Youll be at the forefront of innovations creating new paradigms for providing access to compute power modeling and simulation tools and data sharing across organizations to the Department of the Air Force and broader Department of Defense.

Position Summary:

KBR is seeking a motivated and technically capable Database Engineer to support the development deployment and sustainment of the GEMSTONE platform. The Database Engineer will support the design implementation administration automation and optimization of mission-critical data services that enable platform operations user applications digital engineering workflows analytics warfighter AI/ML capabilities and cross-organizational data sharing. The successful candidate will work closely with software engineers platform engineers DevSecOps engineers cybersecurity personnel and government stakeholders to ensure scalable secure and performant data management solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design develop configure and maintain relational non-relational distributed and/or leaderless database solutions supporting GEMSTONE platform services and applications across multiple versions.
• Support deployment and sustainment of databases used by microservices in containerized Kubernetes environments.
• Assist with database schema design data modeling indexing strategies and query optimization.
• Develop automated database provisioning backup recovery replication and migration capabilities using Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Support implementation of data governance audit logging access control and cybersecurity requirements.
• Monitor database health performance storage utilization and availability.
• Troubleshoot database performance connectivity and operational issues.
• Assist software engineering teams with database integration and API-driven data access patterns.
• Support data persistence requirements for user applications digital engineering artifacts simulation outputs and platform services.
• Participate in DevSecOps Agile and CI/CD activities.
• Contribute to technical documentation architecture products and operational procedures.
• Support deployment of solutions across cloud hybrid and potentially disconnected operational environments.

Work Environment:

• Location: Onsite or hybrid-Dayton OH
• Travel Requirements: None
• Working Hours: Standard

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Information Systems Data Engineering or related technical to learn complex software ecosystems and rapidly become proficient in new platforms and technologies.
• Ability to obtain a DoD Secret security clearance
• 15 years of professional experience supporting database technologies.
• Experience with one or more relational database platforms:
  • PostgreSQL MySQL/MariaDB or MSSQL
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as:
  • MongoDB Couchbase RavenDB or Firestore
  • Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
  • Redis Valkey or Memcached
  • FoundationDB CockroachDB TiKV or YugabyteDB
• Experience with Distributed Consensus and Replication.
• Experience writing and optimizing SQL queries.
• Experience
• Understanding of database design principles normalization and data modeling.
• Familiarity with Linux operating systems.
• Basic scripting experience in Python Bash or PowerShell.

Desired:

• Experience with ETL processes and how databases play a role.
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized application environments.
• Familiarity with databases hosted by AWS Azure or Google Cloud.
• Experience supporting distributed microservice architectures.
• Understanding of API-driven systems and data integration patterns.
• Understanding and implementation of the Transactional Outbox pattern.
• Experience with:
  • PostgreSQL scaling and replication
  • High-availability database architectures
• Exposure to DevSecOps practices and CI/CD tools.
• Familiarity with digital engineering MBSE M&S analytics or AI/ML environments.
• Understanding of NIST RMF STIGs and DoD cybersecurity requirements.
• Experience supporting observability platforms such as Grafana Prometheus or Loki.

Ready to Make a Difference

If youre excited about making a significant impact in the field of space defense and working on projects that matter we encourage you to apply and join our team at KBR. Lets shape the future together.

KBR Benefits

KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match medical dental vision life insurance AD&D flexible spending account disability paid time off or flexible work schedule. We support career advancement through professional training and development.

Belong Connect and Grow at KBR

At KBR we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture. These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to and ongoing journey toward being a People First company. That commitment is central to our team of teams philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong Connect and Grow. We Deliver Together.

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion disability sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age national origin veteran status genetic information union status and/or beliefs or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law.