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Database Engineer
Job Location:
Job Location:
Chantilly, VA - USA
Yearly Salary:
USD 150000 - 225000
Yearly Salary:
Posted:
25 September 2026 (6 hours ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
23 December 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
About the Organization
Now is a great time to join Redhorse Corporation. We are a solution-driven company delivering data insights and technology solutions to customers with missions critical to U.S. national interests. Were looking for thoughtful skilled professionals who thrive as trusted partners building technology-agnostic solutions and want to apply their talents supporting customers with difficult and important mission sets.
About the Role
Redhorse is transforming how the government utilizes data and technology. We are looking for an experienced Database Engineer to join the team designing building and maintaining a new AWS-hosted web-based internal tool used by non-technical end users to submit review approve and track sensitive highly regulated data requests on classified systems. The tool replaces a legacy web application and manual email- and spreadsheet-driven review with automated workflows structured data capture and AI-assisted review.
As the Database Engineer you will own the data layer of the application: modeling the request review and audit data; designing the relational and NoSQL stores that back the application; migrating data out of the legacy system; and making sure the database is secure performant auditable and compliant with data-handling policies. You will work closely with application developers cloud engineers systems engineers and policy experts across a multi-company team and with stakeholders to translate data-access policy into enforceable database design. This role works under general direction and is expected to independently determine the approach to difficult data problems.
Key Responsibilities
- Design build and maintain the applications database management systems in the AWS environment including logical and physical data modeling relational database architecture and metadata/repository design.
- Model the request lifecycle (submission revision review approval fulfillment dissemination) so that workflow state justifications and reviewer decisions are captured as structured queryable data rather than free text email or spreadsheets.
- Implement database-level security controls for sensitive request data including role- and attribute-based access control row/column-level security encryption at rest and in transit and least-privilege service accounts.
- Design and implement data retention periods purge workflows and immutable audit trails that satisfy policy and compliance requirements.
- Analyze the legacy applications data and processes; perform source analysis data mapping and data transformation to plan and execute migration into the target environment.
- Determine data storage requirements and evaluate size and select database technology components (e.g. Amazon RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL DynamoDB S3) for the application.
- Write review and tune SQL queries stored procedures and indexes for performance and scalability; support developers with efficient data access patterns and APIs.
- Implement comprehensive backup recovery and replication solutions; define and test RPO/RTO targets.
- Establish database configuration management and schema change control (migration scripts versioning) integrated into the teams CI/CD pipeline.
- Structure and prepare data to support rules-based validation and AI-assisted detection of common request errors and to support reporting and metrics for customer leadership.
- Monitor database health capacity and performance; troubleshoot and resolve production data issues.
- Prepare system requirements data dictionaries and design documentation throughout implementation.
Required Qualifications
- Active TS/SCI with Polygraph.
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Information Technology Engineering or a related field and 5 years of relevant experience; or a Masters degree and 3 years of relevant experience. Equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- 5 years of experience designing building and administering relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL Oracle Microsoft SQL Server MySQL).
- Expert SQL skills including query writing performance tuning indexing strategy and stored procedures/functions.
- Demonstrated experience with data modeling (conceptual logical and physical) and relational database design.
- Hands-on experience with AWS database and storage services (e.g. RDS Aurora DynamoDB S3) preferably on classified systems.
- Experience implementing database security including access control encryption and auditing.
- Experience implementing backup recovery and replication solutions.
- Experience with data migration: source analysis data mapping and data transformation from legacy systems.
- Scripting experience (e.g. Python Bash or PowerShell) for automation and data processing.
Desired Qualifications
- Masters degree in any of the above fields.
- Experience supporting application development on classified systems.
- AWS certification (e.g. AWS Certified Database Specialty Solutions Architect Associate) or equivalent.
- Experience with NoSQL data stores (e.g. DynamoDB MongoDB) and choosing between relational and NoSQL designs.
- Experience with regulated or sensitive data: retention schedules purge/expungement audit logging privacy controls and RBAC/ABAC.
- Experience with workflow- or case-management data models (requests approvals state transitions).
- Experience with database schema-change tooling (e.g. Flyway Liquibase) and CI/CD / SecDevOps practices.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform CloudFormation) and containers (Docker Kubernetes).
- Experience with ETL/ELT tools and event-driven AWS services (e.g. Lambda SQS Glue).
- Experience preparing data for machine learning or AI-assisted applications.
- Experience with Agile methodologies and tools such as Jira and Confluence.
$150000 - $225000 a year
The salary range provided for this position represents the anticipated base salary for successful candidates. Actual compensation will be determined based on a variety of factors including relevant experience education certifications skills security clearance level geographic location market conditions and internal addition to base salary eligible employees may participate in Redhorses comprehensive benefits programs and may be eligible for performance-based or other incentive compensation where applicable.
Redhorse Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin veteran status disability or any other protected class.
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Redhorse Corporation shall in its discretion modify or adjust the position to meet Redhorses changing job description is not a contract and may be adjusted as deemed appropriate in Redhorses sole discretion.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.
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