Cloud Database Engineer

Company: Capgemini Government Solutions
Location: Mc Lean
Posted on: January 16, 2022

Job Description:

Capgemini Government Solutions (CGS) LLC is seeking highly motivated and experienced Cloud DBA to join our team in the DC Metro Area to support our government clients. The successful applicant will work closely with our clients to provide testing services that are of the highest caliber to ensure client satisfaction.

The successful applicant will have the opportunity to apply and grow their skillset, work with a motivated and entrepreneurial team, engage with a wide range of stakeholders, and build CGS' capabilities to serve our clients.
The ideal candidate must have cloud database engineering experience with both Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) in an enterprise cloud environment.
Job Responsibilities:
Collaborate with Cloud Architects to provide operations and migration services that enable VA to tailor the availability and delivery of cloud computing services based on business and technical requirements
Engage with engineering teams to gather infrastructure and database platform requirements and transform them into functional solutions within the Azure and AWS
Utilize the future VA Enterprise Cloud Operational Tools (VAECOT), CSP native portals and tools, and/or other VA TRM-approved tools necessary to provide operations and migration support
Manage all aspects of Azure and AWS databases, instances, and storage, and Support day-to-day operations and management of an enterprise-level production
Develop, manage and test installations, upgrades, replication, backup and recovery of current databases
Monitors user access and performance of the database systems
Helps to create best practices documentation for cloud database operations
Participation in maintenance windows and on-call rotation is required
Responsible for delivering Agile Stories and Features assigned by the TPM or TL and for participation in Scrums.
Supports security-related efforts to attain Authorization To Operate (ATO) for the RASP Program
Required Qualifications
U.S. Citizenship is required.
Ability to pass a background check to obtain a Public Trust
A minimum of 6 years of relevant work experience
Bachelor's Degree in computer science, electronics engineering or other engineering or technical discipline OR AWS/Azure Certification (AWS Associate Cert. OR Azure Associate / Intermediate Cert. OR AWS/Azure Certification) OR 2 years of relevant experience in one of the VAECOT suite of tools (Science Logic, Dynatrace, Turbot, AppDynamics).
6 years of additional relevant experience.
A Cloud Analyst Intermediate must have experience with implementing, migrating, managing, and operating systems/applications in an enterprise cloud computing environment.
Should have subject matter expertise with either VAEC Cloud Service Providers, Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Nice to have skills/Qualifications
Previous Federal Government experience
Experience with cloud database technologies (ex: AWS RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, CosmosDB, MS SQL Azure, etc.)
Experienced in automation and orchestration platforms (Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.). Hands on experience designing and developing infrastructure and Database automation
One or more Microsoft or Amazon cloud certification
One or more database certification (ex: Oracle, Microsoft, etc.)
Experience with Big Data concepts and technologies, especially using AWS or Azure (ex: MongoDB, Redshift, etc.); Data Lake experience a plus.
Familiarity with Azure monitoring/logging (Power BI, Network Watcher, Azure Monitor), storage (NetApp File Service, Azure Storage, Azure Storage Archive Access Tier, Azure StorSimple, Azure Files, Azure Backup), etc. ).
Familiarity and proficiency in all aspects of designing, sizing and implementing SQL instances, storage and RDMS for AWS storage (Cloud Tiering Service to S3 - NetApp, Simple Storage Service (S3), S3 Glacier), monitoring/logging (Quicksight, Eventbridge, Simple Notification Service (SNS), networking (Virtual Private Cloud, Route 53, API Gateway, Direct Connect etc.).
Very solid experience of database administration in a cloud environment including experience with replication, clustering, and partitioning.
Knowledge of indexes, index management, statistics, data-at-rest encryption, secure connectivity
Experience writing technical documentation, especially in relation to Cloud architecture
Agile and/or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) experience, or relevant Agile (Scrum, Kanban) experience.
Ability to communicate clearly both verbally and in communications and documentation.
Experience creating and presenting technical analysis, findings, and recommendations to leadership using MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
Desire to understand how things work

Company Overview
A global leader in consulting, technology services and digital transformation, Capgemini is at the forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of client's opportunities in the evolving world of cloud and digital platforms. Building on its strong 50-year heritage and deep industry-specific expertise, Capgemini enables organizations to realize their business ambitions through an array of services from strategy to operations. Capgemini is driven by the conviction that the business value of technology comes from and through people. It is a multicultural company of 200,000 team members in over 40 countries. The Group reported 2017 global revenues of EUR 12.8 billion. Capgemini Government Solutions, LLC (Capgemini GS) is a subsidiary of Capgemini focused on providing high quality services to the U.S. Federal Government. Learn more about us at www.capgemini-gs.com .
Capgemini has an entrepreneurial environment that embodies the following values: Honesty, Boldness, Trust, Freedom, Team Spirit, Modesty, and Fun. We offer a competitive benefits package to our employees.
Capgemini is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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