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Azure Cosmos DB Architect

Swanktek IncDallas, TX🇺🇸United StatesPosted 26 Aug 2026

Quick Overview

Seniority

Mid Senior

Work mode

Hybrid

Location

Dallas, TX, United States

Posted

Yesterday

AzureCapacity Planning

Job Description

Job description:

What are the top 3 skills required for this role?

Azure Cosmos DB.
Azure Cloud architecture.
Azure services such as Functions, App Services, AKS, Event Hubs, Service Bus, and Application Insights.

Key Responsibilities:

Design, implement, and optimize Azure Cosmos DB solutions for high-volume transactional workloads.
Define and implement data modeling strategies, partition key design, indexing policies, and data lifecycle management.
Architect highly available, resilient, and scalable solutions leveraging Cosmos DB best practices.
Monitor and optimize RU consumption, throughput, latency, and overall database performance.
Troubleshoot production issues, investigate performance bottlenecks, and implement corrective actions.
Support day-to-day operational activities including deployments, schema evolution, capacity planning, and incident resolution.
Partner with application, infrastructure, and architecture teams to ensure optimal integration with Azure services.
Establish disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity strategies.
Create operational runbooks, documentation, and engineering standards.
Provide recommendations on cost optimization, scalability, and long-term platform improvements.

Required Qualifications:

5+ years of hands-on Azure Cosmos DB experience in production environments.
Strong experience with:

Cosmos DB data modeling and partitioning strategies
Query optimization and performance tuning
Throughput management (RU/s optimization)
Indexing policies and change feed processing
Multi-region deployment and global distribution
High availability and disaster recovery patterns
Monitoring and observability tools

Experience supporting high-volume, always-on enterprise applications.
Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.
Experience with Azure services such as Functions, App Services, AKS, Event Hubs, Service Bus, and Application Insights.
Strong troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.

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