MongoDB/Couchbase Engineer

Job descriptions

Help chart the course for database technology at Client! We need top technical talent to supplement our Database Engineering team. This R&D team within Client's technology division selects the operational database technologies Client will use, and figures out how best to set them up. We define, design, implement, test, and communicate the architectures, configurations, best practices, and standards for optimal use of database technologies across the company, both on-prem and in the cloud. We evaluate new and upgraded database versions, features, components and extensions for performance, throughput, scalability, availability, and security; and we partner with our hosting, database administration, and operational support teams to operationalize and harden OLTP technology for our top-tier financial applications.

This specific posting is for a software/infrastructure engineer with experience in installing, configuring, patching, upgrading, deploying and running MongoDB and/or Couchbase databases. The candidate will put these skills to use in our R&D lab by evaluating and preparing new and upgraded MongoDB and/or Couchbase offerings for use across the company, and by documenting, presenting and explaining the appropriate techniques, patterns and best practices for our hosting, database administration and operational support teams. Also, there will be opportunities to work on other database types, including NoSQL databases in public clouds, such as DynamoDB, FireStore, BigTable and more.

The candidate will bring solid knowledge of DBMS concepts such as ACID, CAP and consistency. The ideal candidate will have experience with enterprise-scale MongoDB and/or Couchbase deployments, including intra- and inter-data-center high availability configurations, fault tolerance and failover, replication, cluster management, automated provisioning, rolling upgrade techniques, backup & restoration techniques, security mechanisms, health monitoring and alerting techniques, and troubleshooting. The candidate will also bring knowledge of MongoDB and/or Couchbase internals such as durability and replication settings, and performance tuning.

Additional desirable attributes

• Skill at the Unix command line
• The ability to write code or script, e.g. for test harnesses or other database-related tools and utilities; e.g. shell script and/or Ansible
• Experience as a database administrator and/or a Unix system administrator
• Knowledge of virtualization and cloud infrastructures, and of implementations such as VMWare, OpenShift, Kubernetes and Docker
• Knowledge of AWS, Google Cloud, Azure or other public cloud offerings
• Knowledge of modern storage and compute technologies, including hyper-converged infrastructures