Database DevOps Engineer - Clearance Required at LMI
Fort Belvoir, VA
$77,000–$125,000from the description
Jul 27, 2026
Fort Belvoir, VA
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A cloud database administration and DevOps role supporting federal government systems at Fort Belvoir, VA. The position centers on designing, managing, and optimizing cloud-based database systems across AWS, Azure, and GCP, with responsibilities spanning performance tuning, security compliance, backup/recovery, and automation of routine database tasks. Requires an active Secret clearance and suits a mid-level DBA with hands-on cloud platform experience.
Mid level · 3+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance · Full-time
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What the occupation pays Median $111,141 (middle half $94,381–$144,959). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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The experience range is stated as '3-10 years', which is unusually wide; the overall years minimum is set to 3 (the floor). The breadth of the range suggests the team will consider both mid-level and senior candidates.
The role title includes 'DevOps' but the day-to-day responsibilities are primarily database administration and optimization with some automation scripting — not building CI/CD pipelines or infrastructure-as-code. SOC 15-1242 (Database Administrators) is the best fit; 15-1243 (Database Architects) is a plausible runner-up given the design and cloud architecture elements.
AWS RDS / Azure SQL Database / Google Cloud SQL are listed as interchangeable examples of the cloud database platform requirement; all three are captured under one skill with alternatives.
MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and DynamoDB are listed as examples of required SQL/NoSQL knowledge. They are emitted as separate required skills reflecting the posting's explicit enumeration, though the underlying gate is broad database platform familiarity.
Security+ (or equivalent certification) is listed under Required Qualifications and is treated as a hard gate.
Cloud vendor database certifications (AWS Certified Database – Specialty, Azure Database Administrator Associate, Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer) appear under Desired Qualifications and are not captured as skills since they are optional credentials rather than named technologies.
The location is Fort Belvoir, VA, which falls within the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV CBSA.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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