# Database Engineer

Responsibilities At Peraton we develop cutting-edge technology that preserves freedom and advances human discovery. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements. Our employees are not only part of history, they’re making history. Peraton’s Space & Intelligence Sector is looking for a highly motivated Senior Database Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals at our Herndon, VA office. The selected candidate will work within a Production Operations team with experience supporting data management processes, database engineering and management; deploying, maintaining, tuning, and enhancing database systems Job Duties: Database engineering and management activities associated with high volume, multi-format data management services Maintains large-scale data management solutions including developing efficient storage, indexing, and access approaches Updates data enterprise architecture models (if needed) and data abstraction layer to enable access to new data sources Designs and implements indexing strategies for ingested data. Developing a strategy for continuous performance tuning of databases Qualificati

- **Id**: 1118813
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/peraton-database-engineer>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Herndon, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-22T17:43:55Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T23:56:09Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 47
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3662
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: National Security, Homeland Security

## Company

- **Id**: 722
- **Name**: Peraton
- **Domain**: peraton.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/peraton>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: iCIMS

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 20
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0.05
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 13
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 112000
- **Max**: 179000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 179000

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **ElasticSearch** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Hadoop** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 47

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-22T17:43:55Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: green card filings: 4; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 14
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.49
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 46
- **Expected fill days**: 13
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 179000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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