Senior Lead Database Administrator

The Role

As a Senior Lead Database Administrator, you will be responsible for all aspects of administration, security, backup and recovery, performance tuning, and data replication in our database environments – focused on MongoDB, but can also include Oracle, MySQL, Cassandra, Couchbase, and Postgres.  This person will provide strategic guidance and advanced troubleshooting for complex application/database challenges.  You will be a part of a hybrid DBA support model (onshore/offshore) working closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, product managers, and operations, to ensure the scalability, performance, and reliability of our systems.

Short Description

This is a work from home position within the US.

The Main Responsibilities

• Provide expert technical direction in the creation, delivery and integration of multiple and complex database solutions for a design and/or production environment.
• Consult and collaborate with multiple teams in the following areas: Design - design database solutions, convert logical design into physical database, perform problem determination and resolution, and perform database design process and reviews.
• Production - perform database management, resolve database problems, and provide database security.
• Explore and evaluate new and emerging technologies relating to the design and/or production database environment. Develop and drive overall DB solutions and strategies.
• Evaluate and recommend new Database tools and emerging technologies.
• Create DB standards and processes.
• Consult and collaborate with Architecture and Infrastructure on IT wide solutions.
• Lead complex outage analysis and resolution.

What We Look For in a Candidate

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and relevant experience.
• Ability to achieve GSA suitability (government security clearance).
• MongoDB experience from version 4 to version 8 and MongoDB experience with self-managed environments using community edition.
• Experience doing rolling patching of MongoDB environments and experience installing and configuring MongoDB.
• Experience creating and managing replica sets, adding/removing members, setting priorities, etc.
• Mongo database utilities such as mongosh, mongodump, mongorestore, mongoexport, mongoimport, mongosync.
• Analyzing performance on mongo environments, including identifying collection scans, index usage, and long running operations.
• Experience managing Mongo Atlas managed environments.
• Experience migrating existing databases to Mongo Atlas and experience using Mongo Ops Manager a plus.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, managed database services such as DocumentDB and CosmosDB.
• Experience with coding and automation technologies such as terraform, ansible, and Gitlab and Excellent organization, oral and written communications skills.  Strong interpersonal skills and experience working in a large DBA team.
• Good design, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities and the ability to understand end user experience.
• Naturally takes ownership of projects and drives them to completion with high-quality outcomes.
• In-depth knowledge of multiple database technologies.
• Ability to lead integration between technologies and drives continuous improvement; may include design, standardization of processes and methodologies. Lead design reviews for the database designs, database access methods,and pre- and post- implementation capacity meeting; estimate sizes of new databases.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Oracle 19c and 12c including RAC, ASM, OEM, GoldenGate, Data Guard, and RMAN.
• In-depth knowledge of multiple database technologies, and experience leading integration efforts between technologies.
• Experience with MySQL database administration and Datastax/Cassandra experience, including Astra is a plus.
• Couchbase experience, including Capella is a plus.

Compensation