The Lead Database Engineer will be responsible for providing the highest technical expertise for the planning, design, implementation, upgrade, patching, capacity planning, and day-to-day operations for the MongoDB database platform
Job Summary
The Lead Database Engineer will be responsible for providing the highest technical expertise for the planning, design, implementation, upgrade, patching, capacity planning, and day-to-day operations for the MongoDB database platform.
This role will also provide oversight, mentoring, and leadership to less experienced on-shore and off-shore staff, and requires comfort working on multiple dynamic projects simultaneously.
Responsibilities include seeing the big picture, influencing future direction, developing high availability and replication solutions, gaining technical depth with new features, and driving adoption of standard operational practices.
Matching Summary
The Lead Database Engineer will be responsible for providing the highest technical expertise for the planning, design, implementation, upgrade, patching, capacity planning, and day-to-day operations for the MongoDB database platform.
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
MongoDB platform expertise
design and administration experience
highly available distributed databases
MongoDB Ops Manager experience
automation of operational practices
on-call DBA rotation
Nice-to-have
regulated banking or financial industry experience
Ansible and/or Terraform experience
Azure IaaS experience
OpenID Connect and Identity Provider experience
Pearl, Python, and/or Java scripting
Jira and Agile experience
Kerberos and/or LDAP authorization
Key Requirements
5+ years of Database Engineering experience
5+ years of database design and administration experience
5+ years of supporting highly available distributed databases