Senior Mongo DBA/AWS

Description:

Hybrid role: 2 weeks a month onsite in Westlake, TX, Jersey City, NJ, Merrimack, NH, Boston, MA or Smithfield, Rhode Island. Our industry leading financial services client is seeking a Mongo DB-Database Administrator.

We can facilitate w2 and corp-to-corp consultants. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $75 - $85 / hr. w2

• As a Database Administrator, you will bring your technology expertise, design, and administration skills to create unique state-of-the-art database systems.
• You have a passion for technology tempered by a level-headed approach to problem solving and broad experience in diverse technologies.
• You will bring a hunger for problem solving and desire to understand and play with newer technologies and business ideas.
• Designing, configure and monitor very large-scale database system including Relational databases, NoSQL and in memory databases.
• Working in tandem with database administrators and data engineers across the organization.

• 10 + years of overall DBA experience.
• 5+ years MongoDB DBA experience.
• Experience in Cockroach is preferable.
• Strong knowledge and experience in installing, configuring, and upgrading MongoDB databases, as well as general administration.
• Experience in installing, configuring, and upgrading Ops manager.
• Schema design, performance tuning, query optimization, backup solutions (Physical and Logical) Replica set (elections, read/write concerns, arbiters) etc.
• Managing MongoDB Oplog and journals.
• Design indexing strategies and Sharding (choosing a good shard key, balancer, moving chunks, zoning shard with pre-split chunks, etc.).
• Debugging skills and the ability to troubleshoot methodically, identifying, and applying fixes for known errors, and when necessary, capacity to think outside of the box to resolve complex issues.
• Scripting/automation tooling (bash/python and Ansible) experience is a must.
• Experienced in CI/CD, DevOps using tools like Udeploy, JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, Git.
• Must have worked on trending cloud solutions (AWS/Azure /GCP) - AWS preferred.
• Experience in AWS EC2, CFT, Route53, RDS.
• Experience in Datadog and integration with ServiceNow
• Cross-functional training in NoSQL, Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps methodologies are encouraged.
• Knowledge in working of REST APIs, ability to read documentation and make calls to read or write data using API is a plus.
• Experience in containerization technologies such as ECS and Docker
• 5 to 10 years of DBA experience
• AWS Solutions Architect certification
• B.E. or MCA
• Experience or subject knowledge in Redis and Elasticsearch.
• Clear understanding of query planning
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in both oral and written English
• Adept at version control tools GIT Stash, build tools like Maven.
• Experience in working with different kinds of hosted infrastructure.
• Ability to learn new concepts and technologies in strict timelines
• Must be adaptable in a changing environment and be effective in many different business settings.
• Experience with cloud data warehousing and data lake solutions is a plus