We are hiring an enthusiastic Database Engineer to join our passionate team at Leidos in Scoresby 3179, VIC.
Growing your career as a Full Time Database Engineer is an awesome opportunity to develop excellent skills.
If you are strong in people management, adaptability and have the right personality for the job, then apply for the position of Database Engineer at Leidos today!

Every person at Leidos plays an important and valued role bringing science, engineering and technology together to produce practical solutions for our customers’ most complex problems. It’s how we help to make the world safer, healthier and more efficient - work that matters and a mission, like those of our customers, we are passionate about. We’re open minded, ambitious and committed to enabling our people to do their best work, to be inspired by what they can achieve and the impact they can have.

Here in Australia, we’re agile and growing fast. Our 1,400 employees are busy building an enviable reputation for innovation and delivery. And, as part of a US-based organisation with 37,000 people and a 50 year history, we are able to draw upon world-leading technical expertise to help us provide the best solutions to our customers.

Job Description

Your Recent Role

Leidos has been engaged by Defence for a new Program to conduct discovery and analysis on existing applications. This phase will include the deployment of a proof of concept to prototype the approach for the next phase of the program. We are seeking highly motivated and appropriately experienced staff to help us deliver outstanding results.

You will be working in a fast-paced environment in a collaborative team with mixed skill-sets and this role will report to a capability lead in an engineering matrix.

The sucessful candidate will perform the following functions as individual assignments or as part of a team:

- Produce enterprise database designs and make recommendations for upgrades,



designs and implementations;
- Implement and test database upgrades;
- Design and implement data migration activities;
- Perform Level 2 and 3 platform support including management and administration of database products;
- 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.

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:

- Substantial professional experience working in a role within an engineering or project environment (preferably in a similar industry)
- Experience with PostgreSQL is highly desirable
- 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 DB and other database technologies are highly regarded.
- Experience with Ansible or infrastructure as code preferred.
- Experience with Liquibase highly regarded.

Due to the nature of this work this role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and to be able to obtain and hold an NV-2 security clearance.

Additional Information

What you’ll love

This is a fast growing business currently implementing a range of business improvement initiatives, so you’ll have the chance to see some market leading technologies implemented across the function along with contributing to building further on the progressive work currently being developed. We offer a flexible working environment where it’s possible to design your ideal work week.

You’ll be joining a fun and friendly team who support each other closely and love to celebrate together.

Benefits of working as a Database Engineer in Scoresby 3179, VIC:

● Company offers great benefits
● Opportunities to grow
● Advantageous package

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