We provide our federal customers with an exciting variety of IT and Intelligence services. In order to achieve our company growth goals, continually surpass our customer’s expectations and provide new opportunity for our employees, Metronome must attract the most professional and qualified employees.

Metronome believes in a strong company culture rooted in its core values and belief in our overall mission. We believe in supporting one another, exceeding our customer’s expectations, executing with passion and celebrating all successes. We work hard and encourage one another to have fun doing it.

Metronome is looking for individuals who also believe in these core set of values, those who yearn to support our nation’s vital projects and those who desire to work for a fast growing small business that appreciates each employees’ contributions and trusts them to make decisions while representing Metronome…those who Keep Projects Pulsing.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Metronome is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to employees and applicants for employment, to assure that individuals with disabilities enjoy full access to equal employment opportunity (EEO). Metronome shall provide reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees and applicants with disabilities, unless Metronome can demonstrate that a particular accommodation would impose an undue hardship on business operations. Applicants requesting a reasonable accommodation may make a request.

The SQL Server DBA/Engineer participates in the design, maintenance, enhancement, coding and administration of relational databases and is responsible for designing, planning, implementing and administering databases, including security, access and documentation. The candidate will analyze and determine information needs and elements, data relationships and attributes, data flow and storage requirements and data output and reporting capabilities.

DUTIES

• Coordinates new data development, ensuring consistency and integration with any existing data warehouse structure
• Reviews business requests for data and data usage and researches data sources for new and better data feeds
• Participates in continuous improvement efforts in enhancing performance and providing increased functionality, including performing proactive maintenance, such as ensuring continued space availability, monitoring activity and documenting problems, changes and solutions
• Assignments may include the design of data dictionaries, database structure and layout, installing, upgrading and managing database applications
• Provides guidance and work leadership to less experienced analysts and may have supervisory responsibilities
• May serve as technical team or task leader
• Stays current on vendors' best security practices, related to organizational requirements
• Maintains current knowledge of relevant technologies as assigned and participates in special projects as required
• Acts as a technical resource for SQL-related design, performance, security and configuration issues
• Provides troubleshooting and problem resolutions for MS SQL Server-related issues
• Develops and maintains O&S operating procedures for the Compute infrastructure and provides on-the-job training to O&S Tier II personnel
• Supports both VMware virtualized environments and bare metal installations for databases
• Gains familiarity with current datacenter infrastructure
• Interacts with end users, to validate business requirements against technical implementation plans
• Supports the Certification and Accreditation process, running SRR, resolving findings, documenting solutions/workarounds and/or providing justifications for exceptions
• Maintains current industry knowledge of relevant concepts, practices and procedures
• Evaluates and installs new software releases, patches and system upgrades

• Government clearance required
• Bachelor’s Degree in a Computer Science or related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience
• 10-15 years of related database analysis and/or administration experience
• Experience with database authentication methods, authorization methods and data encryption techniques
• Advanced knowledge of the principles, methods, and techniques used in database development, coding and design, including business analysis, event modeling, logical and physical database design, data access analysis and design, DBMS optimization, archive and recovery strategy, load strategy design and implementation, security and change management
• Professional certification(s) may be required, depending on job assignment
• Ability to communicate technical information in a clear and concise manner
• MySQL, VMware or Oracle DBMS knowledge is a valuable bonus
• Knowledge of SQL Server and its tools, including the facets of successfully administering a wide range of simple-to-highly-complex environments
• Knowledge and understanding of all aspects of database tuning: software configuration, memory usage, data access, data manipulation, SQL and physical storage
• Experience managing a technology strategy/roadmap
• Operating system and hardware platform knowledge preferred
• Good communication skills, both oral and written
• Must work well in a team environment as well as independently
• Good time management skills, independent decision making capability and a focus on customer service

Core Values

Passion - We believe.  We execute with all we have.
Improving - We surpass our best efforts.
Teammates - We respect and support one another.
Mission - We align with our customers’ objectives.
Celebrate Success - We reward all achievements.