Network / System Engineer IV (Closed)

SkillStorm is seeking a MongoDB Engineering DBA for our client in Jersey City, New Jersey. Candidates must be able to work on SkillStorm's W2; not a C2C position. EOE, including disability/vets.

Job Description:

• As a part of the Database Engineering Team, qualified candidate will be responsible for infrastructure engineering and administrating MongoDB databases, managing the engineering book of work, representing engineering in enterprise audits, establishing governance processes and delivering roadmap aligned with overall Strategic programs and objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure engineering, design and deploy of Mongo DB database/projects.
• Design and implement sharding and indexing strategies for MongoDB.
• Advise MongoDB HA strategies, including replica sets and sharding
• Maintain MongoDB databases/DB projects
• Advise with MongoDB scaling
• Design, implement and manage the security of MongoDB databases.
• Responsible for Mongo backups and restores
• Implement and maintain MongoDB OPS Manager
• Solve difficult technical challenges
• Administer MongoDB to achieve 100% availability
• Collaborate with others team to solve technical issues
• Research, test, evaluate and recommend NoSQL solutions (existing & emerging) with match for best use cases.
• Maintain detailed documentation of database Design/Architecture and setup.
• Provide training to members of the Database team on MongoDB.

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of experience in MongoDB Database administration
• 5+ years of experiences in Linux environment in a database administrator role
• 3+ years of experience in JavaScript, Python, Bash/Korn shell scripting
• Adept in CI/CD - Agile Scrum, and using JIRA, GIT
• Hands on experience with solving MongoDB performance issues
• Hands on experience with building and maintaining MongoDB replica sets
• Hands on experience with building and maintaining MongoDB sharded environment
• Proactively work on monitoring, identifying and fixing database related issues
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to handle ambiguous situations
• Ability to work under pressure and deadlines
• Ability to work in a collaborative team-oriented environment
• Ability to support on-call rotation 24x7 is a plus
• Team player with good interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience in automating database administration tasks
• Experience in Privileged Access Management - authentication mechanisms like LDAP, Kerberos, Active Directory

Nice to Have:

• Mongo certified DBA
• Automate deployment by using Ansible
• Experience in container application like Docker, Kubernetes, Openstack
• Experience working with MongoDB Atlas and in cloud platforms like AWS and Azure

Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in computer science or any related fields