MongoDB DBA

Title: MongoDB DBA

Location: Fort Worth, TX (Hybrid: 2 days onsite)

Duration: 12 Months Contract

Description:

• Should have good experience in managing mongodb cluster (cluster with more than 20 shards or dealing with at least 10TB of data)
• Should have experience in automating upgrading / installing mongodb across multiple shards
• Should be able to manage cluster preferably without using ops manager (Includes backups, restore replication, scaling cluster etc.)
• Knowledge of mongo queries for analyzing slow queries and providing suggestions
• Should know to use tools for monitoring resource usage in the cluster
• Preferable to have basic shell scripting skills
• Experience in Privileged Access Management - authentication mechanisms like LDAP, Hashi corp, Active Directory
• 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.
• 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
• Any other relevant params
• Evaluate, plan and perform Maintenance – during release/outage etc
• Implementing best practices for backups, replication, and health checks.
• Database hardening – implement best practices.
• Design and implement DR plans & HA solutions and recommendations.
• 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.
• Automate the process of deploying DB changes so that we can support this for a new build/patch/hotfix.
• Act as an application DB during the design process
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity experience