ALTEN Technology USA
Database Engineer
Foster City, California, United States · Contract
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About the role
- We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.
- Your work will improve reliability, reduce cost, and accelerate delivery from development through production.
- Please beware of job seeker scams and see this important notice on our careers page for more information about our recruiting process.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop efficient, scalable database solutions aligned to business requirements.
- Monitor performance and optimize queries, indexes, and schemas for reliability and speed.
- Implement and maintain AHE database security controls to protect sensitive data.
- Collaborate with application developers to optimize schema designs and SQL.
- Develop and maintain AHE documentation for architecture, configuration, and runbooks.
- Perform capacity planning and recommend infrastructure improvements.
- Manage and support AWS database infrastructure (e.g., RDS/Aurora/Redshift).
- Solid grasp of data modeling, normalization, and schema design principles.
- We are looking for a Database Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable, secure data stores that power our applications and analytics.
- You'll partner closely with AHE application and data teams to shape schemas, tune performance, and automate operations using AWS and infrastructure-as-code.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of AWS and IaC for database resources.
- Proven experience as a Database Engineer/DBA.
- Deep knowledge of AHE DBMSs (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Redshift).
- Proficiency in SQL and query optimization.
- Hands-on experience with performance tuning and monitoring.
- Knowledge of database security best practices.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.
- All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.
Nice to have
- AWS networking fundamentals.
- Experience with Terraform Cloud and IaC workflows.
- Automation/scripting with Python or Shell.
- CI/CD for databases (e.g., Bamboo, Flyway, or similar).
Compensation
- $110,000 - 125,000
- The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate's combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience
- As part of the global ALTEN Group-57,000+ engineers in 30 countries-we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.
Benefits
- We're ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life-from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles.
- With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.
- When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you'll collaborate on some of the world's toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits.
Company info
- We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
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