Company is actively seeking a passionate, driven Senior, Database Engineer to provide operational support for Database Systems, design and build database systems using automation in both data center and cloud platforms, including identifying build defects and create self-healing routines.
Must have skills:
10+ years of MongoDB DBA experience
Thorough knowledge of implementing and maintaining security controls in a highly regulated industry with MongoDB databases
Experience with MongoDB versions 5 to 7.
Experience with MongoDB replicaset and sharding clusters.
Familiarity with MongoDB external LDAP authentication
Experience with Ops manager installation, configuration and job automation activities.
Experience with database migrations to cloud.
MongoDB query tuning experience
Shell scripting and automation experience
Experience with MongoDB tools, backup and restores
AWS/Cloud Services experience: EC2, RDS, and Aurora
Hands-on, technically adept DBA, capable of performing required DB tasks experience
Strong troubleshooting/performance tuning skills
Ability to assess and improve query performance
Ability to Handle common database life cycle processes, such as upgrade, backup, recovery, migration, etc.
Profile server resource usage, optimize and tweak as necessary
Expert level MongoDB version 5/6/7, NO-SQL technologies, patching, troubleshooting, performance tracking/tuning, back-up/recovery, remote monitoring skills with hands-on experience in -large and very dynamic environments
Strong commitment to following SDLC/Change-Management principles
Self-starter and be able to perform work with minimal supervisory direction
Knowledge of data quality, data management, and data testing strategies and practices
Strong communication skills, both oral and written
Strong experience working with ticketing tools such as ServiceNow, Zenoss or any other monitoring tool, Cloud monitoring tools (CloudWatch, CloudTrail), AppDynamics (or similar APM tool)
Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
Keen analytical and structured approach to problem solving
Ability to accommodate flexible work schedules
Desired skills:
Ability to diagnose problems and triage/resolve issues across various tiers (application, network, database, server, or storage tiers)
Ability to implement automation to reduce manual administrative tasks through use of jobs, scripts, cron, or other techniques
Experience in DB2 UDB, Oracle, Postgres, Microsoft SQL Server, and/or Cassandra is plus
Experience with configuration management tools: SCCM; Puppet; or Ansible.
Development or enhancement of training and upskilling programs
Bachelor's Degree or similar required
You will
Be part of an on-call rotation providing 24x7x365 incident and outage response, including non-business hours changes
Perform initial investigation and/or troubleshooting of database and database system issues to resolve issue & determine root cause
Process all support requests within SLA by following procedural requirements
Escalate to vendors, where necessary, to ensure timely resolution
Thoroughly document steps taken to resolve incidents and fulfil catalog requests within ServiceNow tickets
Develop, document, and update standard operating procedures and knowledgebase articles
Identify, address, and resolve repeating alert trends to improve stability and performance
Suggest defects and product/infrastructure enhancements to improve stability and automation
Participation in periodic skills enhancement sessions and training courses
Be a project lead, as well as a project participant for various activities: cloud migration, lifecycle management, application modernization, capacity planning, financial optimization, performance, and stability optimization, build and design state configuration automation, etc.