Database Engineer
Red Arch Solutions · Annapolis Junction, MD
$150,000–$205,000from the description
Jul 21, 2026
Annapolis Junction, MD
Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on Oracle database engineering role supporting the modernisation of a government information system. Day-to-day work covers administering Oracle 19c databases across on-premises and AWS RDS environments, including schema design, performance tuning, backup and recovery, security hardening, and compliance with federal frameworks such as FISMA and FedRAMP. The role also involves coordinating with Java developers and supporting integrations with SAP Business Intelligence and Apache Solr. A security clearance is required.
Senior level · 13+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · TS/SCI 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.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The title 'Database Engineer' carries no explicit seniority level, so advertised seniority is Unspecified. However, the 13+ years of experience requirement and the scope of responsibilities (production DBA, schema design, security hardening, compliance, DR planning) firmly support a Senior classification.
The role is classified as 15-1242 (Database Administrators) rather than 15-1243 (Database Architects) because the day-to-day work is primarily operational DBA work — administration, backup/restore, patch management, monitoring, and tuning — with schema design as a secondary responsibility. The alt code 15-1243 is noted given the schema design and migration planning elements.
Degree requirement is set to None: the JD states 13+ years of experience but explicitly allows a Bachelor's to substitute for 4 years and a Master's for 6 years, meaning no degree is hard-required.
TS/SCI clearance is a hard gate: candidates must be able to 'obtain and/or maintain a TS/SCI government clearance.' The Desired Quals section additionally mentions TS/SCI with an in-scope polygraph as a preferred enhancement.
Apache Solr appears in the Required Quals section but is explicitly softened ('Apache Solr experience preferred'), so it is marked as preferred rather than a hard gate.
SAP BI and VMware appear only in the Desired Quals section and are marked as preferred accordingly.
Work locations are Annapolis Junction MD, Washington DC, and Reston VA — all within the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria CBSA. The role is on-site (no remote option stated).
Ignored 4 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Oracle database administration, database schema design, Oracle backup and restore, Oracle patch management.
Requires a TS/SCI 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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