Database Engineer

Company Description

At Leidos, we do work that really matters inspired by our mission to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering, and science. With 25 years of local experience, our over 2000 team members, work together to solve Australia’s toughest challenges in government, defence, intelligence and border protection. We’re robust and ambitious, and we empower our people to do their best work. You’ll feel inspired by what you can achieve and will be supported by an inclusive and flexible culture that genuinely cares for your wellbeing. Together, we can be the difference.

We've got so much to offer at Leidos, here are a just a few of the Benefits we provide our team:

• 12 Extra Days Leave: Life Days are the Leidos way of recognising that we all need some extra time out to take care of life. By working slightly more than the minimum weekly hours (2 hours per week for full timers) you can accrue up to an extra 12 days of leave per year.
• Leidos Life Hub provides access to discount offers or cashback rewards with over 400 Australian and International retailers.
• When you grow, we grow. Be it through our exciting pipeline line of projects or by partnering with a People Leader who will guide, mentor and support you.

Job Description

Leidos Australia have a permanent full-time or contract opportunity for a Database Engineer (Postgres on REHL) to join our team in a role that offers great flexible work arrangements including remote work. Reporting to the Program Technical Lead and working within our team responsible for the implementation, support and maintenance of a large enterprise environment you will be responsible for supporting the customer platform, tuning system performance, installing system wide software, and supporting database hardware and software.

As a talented member of our multidisciplinary teams, you will rapidly grow and progress with us across a diverse and influential Federal Government and Defence portfolio.  This is a rare opportunity to join the team who gets to influence programs today that will redefine the customer’s business tomorrow.

In this role you will perform the following functions as individual assignments or as part of a team:

• Perform Level 2 and 3 platform support including management and administration of PostgresSQL database products on RedHat;
• Implement and test database upgrades;
• Design and implement data migration activities;
• Maintain database design and implementation documentation;
• Implement organisational objectives for database improvement and compliance with industry standards;
• Provide solutions to a variety of technical problems of moderate scope and complexity
• Maintaining currency of the environment, where possible.
• Develops and configures tools to enable automation of database administration tasks.
• Source and analyse relevant subject matter documentation
• Contribute to IT Support process and policy development
• Providing input into policies, procedures, and SOP’s relating to maintenance and management of the operational database infrastructure. Interact with users and technical subject matter experts to ensure delivery is fit for purpose.
• Produce enterprise database designs and make recommendations for upgrades, designs and implementations will be advantage.

Qualifications

About You and What You'll Bring

Coupled with your education and practical experience, you will demonstrate a pro-active approach with the ability to understand the business, identify issues and develop relationships to achieve the company’s objectives. You will also have:

• 3 years’ experience with on-prem PostgreSQL is required, with the following additional skills highly desirable:
  • Postgres Replication
  • Postgres Backup & Restore
  • Clustering with Patroni
  • Ansible experience
• Substantial professional experience working in a role within an engineering or project environment (preferably in a similar industry)
• Knowledge and application of a broad range of skills including software, systems and enterprise architecture, software and hardware engineering, interface protocols
• Substantial experience working in a large enterprise environments

Skills

• Strong individual contributor and team player in a professional environment
• Highly effective in managing multiple, concurrent activities, while understanding and managing priorities, dependencies and risk
• Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills
• Good initiative in developing and improving systems and procedures
• Ability to independently develop and determine approaches to solutions in a practical and creative manner
• Strong conceptual, analytical and interpretive skills with high level of attention to details
• Strong focus on customer service
• Strong planning and organising skills
• Experience with Oracle and other database technologies are highly regarded.
• Experience with Ansible or infrastructure as code preferred.
• Experience with Liquibase highly regarded.

This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen hold and maintain or be willing to undergo a Baseline Security Clearance.

Additional Information

We’ve been keeping Australia safer, healthier and more efficient for 25 years, here’s just three ways how

• We’re building the next generation secret end user environment for the Australian Department of Defence across a number of strategic locations around Australia.
• We deliver software development and operational support through to the integration of underwater autonomous vehicles and survey ships to meet mission objectives.
• We support key networks for the Australian Cyber Security Centre.

Applicants may also need to meet International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements. In certain circumstances this can place limitations on persons who hold dual nationality, permanent residency or are former nationals of certain countries as per ITAR 126.1.

At Leidos, we embrace diversity and are committed to creating a truly inclusive workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, veterans, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities and age groups.