Responsibilities and Duties

• 10+ year’s hands-on experience as DBA and 4+ years on MongoDB with Bachelor's degree
• Understanding of enterprise application technology architecture, components, databases, networking, and infrastructure as code.
• Experience leading a small team of resources.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential, with strong verbal and writing proficiencies.
• Experience supporting Mongo deployments with multiple instances. 
• Evaluate, plan and perform the DB upgrades
• Implementing best practices for backups, replication, and health checks
• Creating User Roles
• Installation and Migrate data across different databases
• Work closely with the application team to understand what changes are coming in a build/patch/hotfix, do an impact analysis, fine-tune the queries if any.
• Implement appropriate indexes for performance improvement.
• Fine-tune configurations – MongoDB and servers for performance improvement.
• Implement optimal backup and recovery.
• Understand and optimize query performance.
• Implement database security policies and audit logging mechanisms.
• Configure, monitor, validate Database monitoring and alerts.
• Create and publish database health checks to monitoring systems for the following:
  • Identify slow queries
  • Replication lags
  • Node failures
  • Index usage patterns
  • CPU usage
  • Memory usage
  • Locks
  • Number of connections
  • Any other relevant params
• Maintain database configuration, support procedures and runbook.
• Troubleshoot Production issues and provide workarounds to restore business continuity.
• Experience working in virtualized and/or cloud environments.