MongoDB Database Administrator

Sailthru is looking for a skilled MongoDB Database Administrator to join our team. As a part of the Database Engineering Team, the candidate is responsible for infrastructure engineering & administering  MongoDB databases. The candidate provides counsel & advice to top management on significant Database Administration

Responsibilities

• Analyzes, designs, creates & implements complex databases including access methods, device allocations, validation checks, organization & security.
• Interprets internal or external issues & recommends solutions & best practices.
• Designs complex data models, logical & physical databases, data dictionaries & schemas.
• Liaises with database & infrastructure vendors & external technical support on issues such as software upgrades, problems & potential solutions.
• Reviews systems under development & related documentation.
• May participate in vendor selection & relationship management.
• Leads projects, monitoring project schedules & costs.
• Focuses on providing thought leadership & technical expertise across multiple disciplines.
• Recognized internally as the go-to person for the most complex Database Administration assignments.
• Infrastructure engineering, design & deploy of Mongo DB database projects.
• Design & implement sharding & indexing strategies for MongoDB.
• Advise MongoDB HA strategies, including replica sets & sharding
• Advise with MongoDB scaling
• Design, implement & manage the security of MongoDB databases.
• Responsible for Mongo backups & restores
• Implement & maintain MongoDB Cloud Manager & Cloud Backup
• Solve difficult technical challenges
• Administer MongoDB to achieve close to 100% availability
• Collaborate with other teams to solve technical issues
• Research, test, evaluate & recommend NoSQL solutions (existing & emerging) with match for best use cases.
• Maintain detailed documentation of database DesignArchitecture & setup.
• Provide training to members of the infrastructure teams on MongoDB.

Skills

• 10+ years overall technical experience
• 5 years of experience in MongoDB Database administration
• 5 years of experiences in Linux environment in a database administrator role
• 5 years of experience in shell scripting
• 3 years of experience in python coding
• Hands on experience with solving MongoDB performance issues
• Hands on experience with database monitoring (proactive & reactive)
• Hands on experience with building & maintaining MongoDB replica sets
• Hands on experience with building & maintaining MongoDB sharded environment
• Experience in automating database administration tasks.
• Experience in networking concepts, Linux, & general system administration skills.
• Author & execute ansible playbooks for infrastructure automation & configuration.
• AWS cloud based skill set including EC2, RDS, DocumentDB, & Terraform

Nice to haves

• Postgres
• Java coding

Education

Bachelor or Master Degree in computer science or equivalent experience.

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