Sterling, Virginia, United States · On-site
$99k–$185k/yr
Position Title: Senior Database Engineer – GSE (Ground Support Engineer) Requisition ID: 1809 Position Location: Sterling, Virginia Position Reports To: Director of Embedded Software Engineering & GSE Supervises Ot…
Skills: Database Design, Schema Design, Query Optimization, PostgreSQL, MySQL
Leesburg, Virginia, United States · Remote OK
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Skills: Penetration Testing, Network Security, Vulnerability Assessment, Security Operations Center, Reporting
Chantilly, Virginia, United States · On-site
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Skills: Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS, CI/CD, Bash
Chantilly, Virginia, United States · On-site
Overview Acuity is growing and looking to hire an additional Multi-Cloud Engineer to provide technical support to all of the customers' broadcast systems as a cloud engineer with programming responsibilities. Why Acuity?…
Skills: Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, DevSecOps, Kubernetes
Chantilly, Virginia, United States · On-site
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Skills: Systems Engineering, Project Management, Acquisition, Model Based Systems Engineering, Agile Methodologies
Chandler, Arizona, United States · Hybrid
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Ashburn, Virginia, United States · Hybrid
$125k–$150k/yr
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Ashburn, Virginia, United States · Hybrid
$125k–$150k/yr
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Fort Belvoir, Virginia, United States · On-site
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Skills: Python, JavaScript, Typescript, Java, C/C++
Vienna, Virginia, United States · On-site
$170k–$220k/yr
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Skills: Python, SQL, REST APIs, ETL/ELT, AWS
Chantilly, Virginia, United States · On-site
Information Systems Security Engineer TS/SCI CI Poly Department: Government Customer- Chantilly Location: Chantilly, VA MUST HAVE A TS/SCI Poly The Information Systems Security Engineer (ISSE) provides support to the cus…
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McLean, Virginia, United States · Hybrid
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Skills: Angular, TypeScript, RxJS, CSS, SCSS
Reston, Virginia, United States · On-site
$117k–$264k/yr
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Skills: Technical Program Management, Capacity Buildout, Data Center Design, Infrastructure Architecture, End-to-end Execution
Chicago, Illinois, United States · Remote OK
Founded in 2017, Lovelytics has helped some of the most complex enterprises across industries such as Energy & Utilities, Media & Entertainment, Manufacturing and Retail & CPG, modernize their data and put AI to work, no…
Skills: Data Engineering, Databricks, ETL/ELT Pipelines, Data Modeling, AWS
Herndon, Virginia, United States · On-site
Required: • Linux system administration (Centos7, RedHat8) • Docker • Python scripting • AWS, C2S, or other cloud experience • GitLab Pipeline • Ansible Pipeline • NiFi Desired: • Elasticsearch • Cloud hosting and automa…
Skills: Linux System Administration, Docker, Python Scripting, AWS, C2S
Reston, Virginia, United States · Remote OK
ASRC Federal is a leading government contractor furthering missions in space, public health and defense. As an Alaska Native owned corporation, our work helps secure an enduring future for our shareholders. Join our team…
Skills: Product Backlog Management, Agile Ceremonies, User Story Definition, Stakeholder Collaboration, Scrum Facilitation
Reston, Virginia, United States · Remote OK
ASRC Federal is a leading government contractor furthering missions in space, public health and defense. As an Alaska Native owned corporation, our work helps secure an enduring future for our shareholders. Join our team…
Skills: Java, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Git, HTML
Chantilly, Virginia, United States · Remote OK
Arlluk Technology Solutions, LLC a Koniag Government Services company, is seeking an IBM Maximo Subject Matter Expert to support ATS and our government customer. The position is remote. This position requires the candida…
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McLean, Virginia, United States · Remote OK
$176k–$180k/yr
Exceptional Hospitality Starts with You Location: 7930 Jones Branch Dr., McLean, VA 22102 (position allows 100% full remote work from anywhere in the U.S.) What will I be doing? Design, develop, document, and troubleshoo…
Skills: Java, Spring Boot, React.js, AWS, Microservices
McLean, Virginia, United States · Remote OK
$130k–$145k/yr
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Skills: Java, Spring Boot, Angular, MySQL, REST APIs
Sterling, Virginia, United States • On-site
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The Senior Database Engineer designs and maintains database systems supporting production automation, manufacturing workflows, and hardware traceability. They collaborate with cross-functional teams to build reliable data infrastructure and develop APIs for backend integrations.
Requires a Bachelor's degree in a technical field and at least 6 years of experience in designing and maintaining production database systems. Proficiency in relational databases like PostgreSQL or SQL Server and experience in backend software development are essential.
Position Title: Senior Database Engineer – GSE (Ground Support Engineer)
Requisition ID: 1809
Position Location: Sterling, Virginia
Position Reports To: Director of Embedded Software Engineering & GSE
Supervises Others: No
At Trident Systems, we believe that strong engineering principles are fundamental to driving innovation and solving complex problems. We promote a culture characterized by rigorous engineering practices and a commitment to continuous improvement. This is achieved by leveraging our organization's collective expertise through collaborative development processes, which include thorough design and peer reviews. We can deliver innovative, high-performance solutions that meet our customers' evolving requirements by integrating our specialized knowledge in aerospace electronic systems with appropriately scaled development methodologies.
We are a mission partner supporting DoD, Intelligence Community, and Civil space customers. We develop complex, radiation effects mitigated, designs that balance competing requirements in modern space programs, delivering cutting-edge solutions that enable our customers to achieve more in space.
The Senior Database Engineer designs, develops, and maintains database systems that support production automation, engineering operations, manufacturing workflows, hardware traceability, test automation, and internal business processes. This role works closely with software, test, production, quality, and engineering teams to build reliable data infrastructure that enables scalable delivery of aerospace electronics products.
The ideal candidate combines strong database engineering fundamentals with practical software development skills and an understanding of automation-driven engineering environments.
Required Qualifications
Full-Time Salary Range: $99,000 - $185,000
Please Note: Actual compensation offered will be determined based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, education, certifications, internal equity, business considerations, and geographic location where applicable.
Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits including but not limited to:
Trident Systems reserves the right to change or assign other duties to this position.
Trident Solutions is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. To request reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact [email protected].
Pay Transparency: The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
Where the Mission Meets the Edge.
Trident has built a reputation as a trusted provider of proven space flight units, power & processing systems, command and control solutions and atmospheric and airborne sensors. Our three operating units: Space Electronic Systems (SES), Integrated C4ISR solutions (ICS) and Optical Precision Sensors (OPS), lead our agile development approach that enables us to produce small, affordable, custom-built systems that have been solving our customers’ mission critical challenges — across all orbits and domains — for more than four decades.
Offices: 10201 Fairfax Blvd., Suite 300, Fairfax, VA 22030, US · 6 Loudon Rd, Suite 307, Concord, New Hampshire 03301, US
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