Momentum Engineering, Inc. fosters an employee-centric culture. Our strength lies in our people. With a high percentage of employees holding advanced degrees in engineering, computer science, and related disciplines, we bring deep technical expertise to every mission. Our team includes professionals with security clearances and full-scope polygraphs, ensuring trusted, secure support for the most sensitive national security initiatives. Additionally, our workforce is equipped with industry-leading certifications, demonstrating a commitment to continuous learning and excellence. Most importantly, our exceptional employee retention rate reflects a culture of professional growth, mission focus, and dedication—ensuring long-term stability and expertise for our customers’ critical needs.
Job Summary
- Seeking a Database Administrator to support a large, complex, fast-paced, operational program
- The ideal candidate will maintain the integrity, security, and availability of multiple databases
- Duties include disaster recovery, performance analysis and tuning, index maintenance, and monitoring of data, as well as administering, maintaining, developing, and implementing policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of the database
Primary Responsibilities
- Perform daily database administration, monitoring, and troubleshooting of system database and replication issues
- Monitor database performance and memory allocations using standard tools
- Perform system updates and Information Assurance Vulnerability Alert (IAVA) patching
- Troubleshoot and resolve database problems
- Perform database recovery actions
- Modify existing database scripts to enhance systems support and create new database scripts for recurring database issues
- Develop and execute SQL queries for routine and ad hoc requests
- Transition/ingest legacy data
- Translate requirements and data into usable database schemas by creating or recreating ad hoc queries, scripts and macros, making updates to existing queries, and creating new queries to manipulate data into a master file
- Recommend design and implementation practices that optimize the performance of GOTS/COTS databases and applications
- Assist in the development of database structures that fit into the overall architecture of the system under development
- Assist in developing databases, database parser software, and database loading software
Required Qualifications
- Must have active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph
- Must have at least five (5) years of hands-on, dedicated experience as a database administrator
- Must have at least five (5) years of hands-on, dedicated experience as an Oracle Database Administrator
- Must have in-depth experience implementing and maintaining database security
- Must have in-depth experience conducting database performance tuning and monitoring
- Must have in-depth experience troubleshooting and resolving database problems/issues
- Must have experience installing, configuring, and upgrading RDBMS software
- Must have experience with procedural languages such as PL/SQL
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline
- Experience with real time highly available data replication technologies such as Oracle Data Guard, Oracle Streams, Oracle Golden Gate, Sybase Replication Server
- Experience with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology and/or as a member of an Agile team
- Extensive, in-depth experience with database design and development
- Extensive, in-depth understanding of databases, primarily Oracle and/or other relational and non-relational/NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB
- Experience using Oracle SQL/PLSQL, and SQL in general
- Experience with Mongo and/or Cassandra
Exempt hourly position. 11 paid holidays, minimum of 3 weeks PTO, company sponsored group medical plan, company paid dental, vision, life insurance, and STD/LTD plans. Salary is dependent upon the candidate’s experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph
- At least five years of hands-on, dedicated database administration experience
- At least five years of hands-on, dedicated Oracle Database Administrator experience
- In-depth experience implementing and maintaining database security
- In-depth experience conducting database performance tuning and monitoring
- In-depth experience troubleshooting and resolving database problems or issues
- Experience installing, configuring, and upgrading RDBMS software
- Experience with procedural languages such as PL/SQL
- Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline
- Experience with real-time, highly available data replication technologies such as Oracle Data Guard, Oracle Streams, Oracle GoldenGate, or Sybase Replication Server
- Experience with the Scaled Agile Framework or membership on an Agile team
- Extensive database design and development experience
- In-depth understanding of Oracle and other relational or NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL and MongoDB
- Experience using Oracle SQL, PL/SQL, and SQL generally
- Experience with MongoDB or Cassandra
What We Do
Momentum Engineering understands that our customer's unique missions require innovative software solutions and data-driven engineering methodologies. These approaches leverage DevOps principles and cloud-based automation ensuring that applications and systems can be characterized and reliably measured. Our specialists, working as trusted partners to our customers, have been developing, integrating and maintaining data-centric solutions since our founding in February 2015. Momentum Engineering provides highly-skilled System Engineers, Software Engineers, and formally trained Department of Defense Test and Evaluation Subject Matter Experts to our customers to help them move their missions forward.
