Senior Specialist - Cloud & Infra Management

Job Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, and implement permissions policies and procedures for ensuring the secure connectivity and integrity of databases.
• Monitor database performance, implement changes, and apply new patches and versions to ensure optimal performance.
• Work closely with the application teams to optimize the application interaction with NoSQL databases.
• Design and execute database backup and recovery strategies, including failover planning and testing.
• Lead projects from on-premises and AWS-hosted databases to NoSQL, including planning, execution, and validation of database migrations and upgrades.
• Ensure database security measures are in place, including access controls and audit logging.
• Comply with all applicable data privacy laws and regulations, define, and implement backup strategies per data retention requirements.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues as needed 24x7.
• Develop and document best practices for maintenance, monitoring, migration, and failover strategies.
• Utilize AWS CloudWatch and other monitoring tools to ensure database health, performance, and automate scaling and notifications.
• Troubleshoot and support complex database issues, including troubleshooting and resolving database integrity issues, performance issues, blocking and deadlocking issues, replication issues, log shipping issues, etc.

Qualifications

• Required Skills and Experience:
  • Solid NoSQL DocumentDB and MongoDB skills.
  • Proven experience as a DBA with expertise in NoSQL databases, MongoDB, and AWS Managed Databases.
  • Extensive experience with AWS MangoDB RDS database services and database failover and recovery procedures.
  • Experience with MongoDB Query Language MQL, database design, and data modeling.
  • Familiarity with AWS CLI SDKs and CloudWatch.
  • Proficient in scripting languages like Python and Bash for automation of database tasks.
  • Deep familiarity with database monitoring tools, especially AWS CloudWatch for performance monitoring and alerting.
  • Enterprise Database Management experience with large enterprise database design, implementation, and optimization.
  • Experience with MongoDB and Big Query.
  • Highly self-motivated with the ability to work independently or within a team in a high-demand and dynamic environment.
  • Strong team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Comfortable with collaboration, open communication, and reaching across functional boundaries.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced development environment with a broad scope of responsibilities.
• Desired Skills and Experience:
  • AWS or relevant database certifications.
  • Experience with Big Query.
  • Experience with enterprise database design and implementation.
  • Experience with MongoDB and Big Query.