Database developer

Job Description

Astor & Sanders Corporation (Astor), is an award-winning IT solutions provider. Astor is headquartered in Rockville, MD, and is seeking a Database Developer. This position is based in the McLean, VA area with some travel to Rockville, MD. A hybrid remote work model may be available for consideration.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Support a complex program to provide Agile database development and operations and maintenance for critical systems

• Be responsible for maintaining all aspects of the database servers to include, but not limited to, backup/recovery, performance monitoring, capacity planning, patching, and upgrading, problem diagnosis and remediation, and logical and physical design of all databases

• Ensure all database servers are operating under current versions applicable to current software needs after thorough testing to ensure proper operations on all applicable machines

• Provide and maintain use of approved tools to maintain physical and logical database design, for batch job processing and to monitor the performance of production database servers

• Ensure the highest security level is provided to ensure access to all database servers is only available to those users with appropriate needs. A comprehensive plan shall be developed to maintain internal security measures from usernames to proper password usage

• Support security standards and audits by ensuring database servers implement applicable security controls

• Resolve findings 100% within the specified timeframe

• Develop and maintain protocols to associate approved security checklists for all database system environments

• Remediate database security vulnerabilities

• Provide security status information as required

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

• 5+ years’ experience integrating data from disparate sources

• 6+ years of experiences in relational database development

• Expert proficiency in all flavors of Structured Query Language (SQL)

• Experience with Oracle and MySQL

• Experience with database development life cycle using Agile methodologies

• Proficient with data modeling tools

• Experience delivering Oracle and AWS RDS that comply with federal standards for security, 508, and records management

• 5+ years’ data warehouse experience. Candidate must have experience with designing data warehouse schemas

• Experience deploying into AWS Cloud environment

• Skills in web development (Java or .NET)

• Light skills in JavaScript development. An understanding of User Interface (UI) design principles is a plus

• Ability to communicate and coordinate effectively with multiple partners, working teams, and organizations

• Ability to manage a complex task, including short-term and long-term planning, goal and policy setting, and monitoring accomplishments

Requirements

Requirements

• Covid vaccine

• Ability to obtain federal public trust clearance