{"id":1148400,"url":"https://alion.io/job/redhorse-database-engineer","title":"Database Engineer","company":{"id":684975,"name":"Redhorse","domain":"redhorsecorp.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/redhorsecorp","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Lever","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":17,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Data Science","role_family":"Data Science","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Chantilly, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":150000,"max":225000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":225000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon Aurora","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon S3","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"AWS Lambda","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"CloudFormation","optional":false},{"name":"Confluence","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"DynamoDB","optional":false},{"name":"ETL/ELT","optional":false},{"name":"Flyway","optional":false},{"name":"Jira","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Least Privilege","optional":false},{"name":"Liquibase","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"MS SQL","optional":false},{"name":"MySQL","optional":false},{"name":"Oracle","optional":false},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":false},{"name":"PowerShell","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Rest API","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T16:19:49Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T19:43:28Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"About the Role\nRedhorse 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.\nAs 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.\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign, build, and maintain the application's database management systems in the AWS environment, including logical and physical data modeling, relational database architecture, and metadata/repository design.\nModel 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.\nImplement 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.\nDesign and implement data retention periods, purge workflows, and immutable audit trails that satisfy policy and compliance requirements.\nAnalyze the legacy application's data and processes; perform source analysis, data mapping, and data transformation to plan and execute migration into the target environment.\nDetermine data storage requirements and evaluate, size, and select database technology components (e.g., Amazon RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, S3) for the application.\nWrite, review, and tune SQL queries, stored procedures, and indexes for performance and scalability; support developers with efficient data access patterns and APIs.\nImplement comprehensive backup, recovery, and replication solutions; define and test RPO/RTO targets.\nEstablish database configuration management and schema change control (migration scripts, versioning) integrated into the team's CI/CD pipeline.\nStructure 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.\nMonitor database health, capacity, and performance; troubleshoot and resolve production data issues.\nPrepare system requirements, data dictionaries, and design documentation throughout implementation.\nRequired Qualifications\nActive TS/SCI with Polygraph.\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field and 5+ years of relevant experience; or a Master's degree and 3+ years of relevant experience. Equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.\n5+ years of experience designing, building, and administering relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL).\nExpert SQL skills, including query writing, performance tuning, indexing strategy, and stored procedures/functions.\nDemonstrated experience with data modeling (conceptual, logical, and physical) and relational database design.\nHands-on experience with AWS database and storage services (e.g., RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, S3), preferably on classified systems.\nExperience implementing database security, including access control, encryption, and auditing.\nExperience implementing backup, recovery, and replication solutions.\nExperience with data migration: source analysis, data mapping, and data transformation from legacy systems.\nScripting experience (e.g., Python, Bash, or PowerShell) for automation and data processing.\nDesired Qualifications\nMaster's degree in any of the above fields.\nExperience supporting application development on classified systems.\nAWS certification (e.g., AWS Certified Database - Specialty, Solutions Architect - Associate) or equivalent.\nExperience with NoSQL data stores (e.g., DynamoDB, MongoDB) and choosing between relational and NoSQL designs.\nExperience with regulated or sensitive data: retention schedules, purge/expungement, audit logging, privacy controls, and RBAC/ABAC.\nExperience with workflow- or case-management data models (requests, approvals, state transitions).\nExperience with database schema-change tooling (e.g., Flyway, Liquibase) and CI/CD / SecDevOps practices.\nExperience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) and containers (Docker, Kubernetes).\nExperience with ETL/ELT tools and event-driven AWS services (e.g., Lambda, SQS, Glue).\nExperience preparing data for machine learning or AI-assisted applications.\nExperience with Agile methodologies and tools such as Jira and Confluence.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5425,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Information Technology"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T16:31:18Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":46,"reasons":["conf:3","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-23T23:18:08Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":225000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/redhorse-database-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/redhorse-database-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-23T23:18:08Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}