MongoDB Database Administrator

The role encompasses administration of and responsible for MongoDB database and will be responsible for ensuring the database performance, high availability, and security of clusters in MongoDB instances.

• The candidate will be responsible for ensuring that database management policies, processes and procedures are followed, adhering to ITIL good practice principles and are subjected to continuous improvement as per PCI standards.
• He / She will be responsible for reviewing system design changes to ensure they adhere to expected service standards and recommend changes to ensure maximum stability, availability and efficiency of the supported applications.
• The candidate should understand the application functionality, business logic and work with application stakeholders to understand the requirement and discuss the new application features and propose the right solutions.

• Install, deploy and manage MongoDB on physical and virtual machines
• Create, configure and monitor large-scale, secure, MongoDB sharded clusters
• Support MongoDB in a high availability, multi-datacenter environment
• Administer MongoDB Ops Manager monitoring, backups and automation
• Configure and monitor numerous MongoDB instances and replica sets
• Automate routine tasks with your own scripts and open-source tools
• Improve database backups and test recoverability regularly
• Study the database needs of our applications and optimize them using MongoDB
• Maintain database performance and capacity planning
• Write documentation and collaborate with technical peers online
• All database administration tasks like backup, restore, SQL optimizations, provisioning infrastructure, setting up graphing, monitoring and alerting tools, replication
• Performance tuning for high throughput
• Architecting high availability servers

Skills and Qualifications

• Minimum 1 years of experience in MongoDB technologies, Total should be 3 years in database administration.
• Install, Deploy and Manage MongoDB on Physical, Virtual, AWS EC2 instances
• Should have experience on MongoDB Active Active sharded cluster setup with high availability
• Should have experience on administrating MongoDB on Linux platform
• Experience on MongoDB version upgrade, preferably from version 4.0 to 4.4, on production environment with a zero or very minimum application down time, either with ops manager or custom script
• Experience on building the database monitoring using tools like, AppD, ELK, Grafana etc.
• Experience in Database performance tuning which include both script tuning and hardware configuration and capacity planning.
• Good Understanding and experience with Mongodb sharding and Disaster Recovery plan
• Design and implement the backup strategy and BCP process across the MongoDB environments. Maintain the uniform backup strategy across the platform
• Define the database monitoring, monitoring thresholds, alerts, validate the notifications and maintain the documents for the future references
• Database performance tuning based on the application requirement and maintain the stable environment. Analyse the existing mongodb queries behalf of the performance improvement program
• Work with engineering team to understand the database requirement and guide them the best practice and optimize the queries to get the better performance
• Work with application stake holders to understand the production requirement and propose the effective database solutions
• Review and understand the ongoing business reports and create new adhoc reports based on the requirement