Job Description
Database Engineer/ DBA Admin
Location: Washington, DC Metro Area preferred but can be remote in US
US Citizenship Required BlueVoyant is seeking an experienced
Data Engineer/Database Admin to create and manage the data architecture and optimal storage/retrieval technology needed to power the identification and risk analysis of global supply chains and their cyber defensive posture. The ability to rapidly ingest, integrate, and analyze new data sources is fundamental to delivering the timely, accurate and actionable information our clients need to discover, protect, and adapt to risk – particularly cybersecurity risk.
Ideal candidates will: - Thrive in our small, fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment
- Collaborate with teams from across the organization
- Deliver features and fixes on tight schedules and under pressure
- Present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language
- Create systems that are maintainable, documented, flexible and scalable
- Define and follow a disciplined development and engineering workflow
- Demonstrate ownership of tasks with escalation as needed
- Be a subject matter expert in one or more of the technologies employed
- Relentlessly push for successful customer outcomes
Responsibilities: - Database Design and Development: Design, create, and maintain database schema, tables, indexes, stored procedures, and other database objects.
- Performance Optimization: Proactively identify and resolve database performance issues through query optimization, indexing strategies, and system tuning. Identify and apply methods to decrease operational cost.
- Data Integrity and Security: Implement and maintain robust security measures to protect sensitive data and ensure data integrity.
- Data Pipelines: Assist in the design, build, and maintenance of robust data pipelines (leveraging ETL/ELT processes) to integrate data from various sources.
- Collaboration: Work closely with software developers, data scientists, and other stakeholders to understand data requirements and ensure seamless integration with applications.
- Database Operations: Manage database administration tasks, including backups, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
- Monitoring and Reporting: Monitor database systems for performance issues, security vulnerabilities, and system health. Generate and analyze performance reports.
- Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for database design, configurations, and processes.
- Continuous Improvement: Stay up to date with new database technologies and best practices to drive continuous improvement.
Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Proven experience as a Data Engineer, Database Engineer, Database Developer, or a similar role.
- Expertise in SQL and deep knowledge of relational database management systems (RDBMS) like PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server.
- Experience with NoSQL databases such as key-value stores (i.e. Redis), document stores (i.e, MongoDB), graph (i.e, Neo4j), or other (i.e.Cassandra, ElasticSearch) is a plus.
- Proficiency in Python for automation and tool development is highly desired. Experience with other programming languages such as golang and other AI-assisted software development technology is desired.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-based database solutions (e.g., AWS RDS, Azure SQL Database, Google Cloud SQL) as well as Postgres implementations on cloud hosts.
- Experience with data warehousing and ETL/ELT processes.
- Experience with Agile development practices, Git version control, and CI/CD ops is required.
- Experience with database schema design/modeling (i.e., Lucidchart), schema migration/versioning (i.e, sqitch), and IDEs (i.e., DataGrip) is a plus.
- Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code frameworks (i.e, terraform) and container-based deployment technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.
- Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
About BlueVoyant At BlueVoyant, we recognize that effective cyber security requires active prevention and defense across both your organization and supply chain. Our proprietary data, analytics, and technology, coupled with deep expertise, works as a force multiplier to secure your full ecosystem. We provide accurate, timely, and actionable information to guide customer defensive planning and operations.
Led by CEO, Jim Rosenthal, BlueVoyant’s highly skilled team includes former government cyber officials with extensive frontline experience in responding to advanced cyber threats on behalf of the National Security Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Unit 8200, and GCHQ, together with private sector experts. BlueVoyant services utilize large real-time datasets with industry leading analytics and technologies.
Founded in 2017 by Fortune 500 executives, including Executive Chairman, Tom Glocer, and former Government cyber officials, BlueVoyant is headquartered in New York City and has offices in Washington, DC, Maryland, Tel Aviv, London, and Latin America.
All employees must be authorized to work in the United States. BlueVoyant provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, BlueVoyant complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.
Disclaimer: Please note that pursuant to contractual requirements and applicable law, in order for employees to perform work on some of the company’s federal contracts, U.S. citizenship is required. Accordingly, an employee’s ability to perform work on such contracts is contingent upon the company’s verification of the employee’s citizenship status. Furthermore, individuals may be subject to additional background checks and fingerprinting. BlueVoyant Candidate Privacy Notice
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Job Tags
Full time, Work at office, Local area, Remote work, Flexible hours,