MongoDB / NoSQL Database Administrator- W2

MongoDB / NoSQL Database Administrator- W2

Location: Woodlawn, MD
​Work Arrangement: 5 Days Onsite
​Interview Process: In-Person Interview Required

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Position Overview:

We are seeking an experienced MongoDB / NoSQL Database Administrator with strong expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure to manage, optimize, and maintain enterprise database environments. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with MongoDB, MongoDB Atlas, Amazon DocumentDB, and ElastiCache Redis, along with a strong understanding of database performance tuning, high availability, replication, backup, and recovery.

The candidate will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, security, and performance of mission-critical database systems while collaborating with application development, cloud infrastructure, and operations teams.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of relevant IT experience.
• Strong hands-on experience administering and supporting MongoDB in production environments.
• Experience with MongoDB Atlas, Amazon DocumentDB, and AWS ElastiCache Redis.
• Strong knowledge of AWS cloud infrastructure and services, including EC2, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, and Lambda.
• Experience managing database deployments, replication, failover, backups, recovery, and monitoring.
• Strong understanding of NoSQL database architecture, scalability, high availability, and operational reliability.
• Experience with database performance tuning, query optimization, indexing strategies, schema design, and capacity planning.
• Hands-on experience with Redis clustering, replication, and caching strategies.
• Proficiency in Linux system administration, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, or similar distributions.
• Experience writing automation scripts using Shell, Python, or similar scripting languages.
• Familiarity with Git and Bitbucket for source control and deployment workflows.
• Experience troubleshooting database performance issues, connectivity problems, replication failures, and production incidents.
• Understanding of database security, access management, and secrets control practices.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to collaborate with application developers, cloud engineers, and operations teams to maintain database stability and performance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with CyberArk or Conjur for secrets management.
• Experience with Dynatrace, Splunk, or similar monitoring, logging, and observability tools.
• Enterprise-level experience administering MongoDB Atlas and Amazon DocumentDB.
• Experience supporting large-scale, highly available, mission-critical NoSQL database environments.
• Experience developing automation solutions for database maintenance, monitoring, health checks, and operational efficiency.
• Experience with database backup and disaster recovery strategies in AWS environments.
• Ability to provide on-call support and maintain database service-level agreements (SLAs).

Important Requirements

• 5 days onsite in Woodlawn, MD is mandatory.
• Please submit only candidates who are comfortable working onsite and attending the in-person interview.
• Please include the candidate's updated resume, current location, contact information, availability, and expected rate with the submission.