What are the responsibilities and job description for the MongoDB Database Admin position at Galent?
Title: MongoDB DBA
Location: Reading PA -onsite
Contract
Job Description:
Mongo DB/Vector DB DBA will be responsible for designing, implementing, security and optimizing MongoDB infrastructure to ensure high availability, resiliency, scalability, and performance.
Responsibilities include following but not limited to -
- Design, deploy, and manage MongoDB and vector databases for small/large-scale applications, ensuring high availability and optimal performance.
- Work with development teams to understand application requirements and provide guidance on data modeling and database design.
- Implement and maintain MongoDB clusters including replica sets and sharded clusters, ensuring data distribution and fault tolerance also Implement and maintain vector databases.
- Perform regular database performance tuning and optimization to maximize query efficiency and reduce response time.
- Develop and implement backup and recovery strategies to ensure data integrity and minimize downtime.
- Monitor and troubleshoot database issues, including performance bottlenecks, query optimization, and replication problems.
- Developing/setting alerts, observability for MongoDB & vector databases
- Implement and manage database security measures, including Roles/Privileges, authentication, authorization, and encryption, to protect sensitive data.
- Collaborate with system administrators to ensure adequate hardware resources and infrastructure for various database deployments.
- Stay up to date with the latest MongoDB/Vector DB features, releases, and best practices, and evaluate their applicability to the organization's database environment.
- Document database configurations, procedures steps to maintain a comprehensive knowledge base.
- Provide guidance and support to development teams on MongoDB-related matters, including data access patterns and query optimization.
- The role involves contributing to the development and maintenance of our data infrastructure, ensuring efficient handling of complex relationships and vectors.
- Design and implement vector databases to efficiently store and retrieve high-dimensional vectors.
- Optimize database queries, indexing strategies for vector operations.
- Collaborate with application developers to integrate vector databases and knowledge graphs into various software solutions.
What You Bring
- Bachelor's degree in and IT or a related field.
- 3 years' experience designing business solutions in a hybrid cloud environment.
- 10 years Progressive years of experience in database technologies.
- 5 years Extensive experience with Mongo Db Atlas and Vector database technologies
- 5 years' Experience with cloud databases and cloud services (AWS, Microsoft Azure).
- Strong command of SQL, PowerShell, and Unix shell scripting skills.
- Strong experience in SQL tools such as TOAD, SQL Developer, PGADMIN, Mongo CLI, Mongo DB Compass etc.
- Advanced knowledge of database security, backup and recovery, and performance monitoring standards.
- Understanding relational and dimensional data modeling.
- Experience in database migrations, upgrades.
- An ideal candidate should have experience in modern ways of designing, building, optimizing and deployment of database workloads in public cloud, preferably Mongo Db Atlas and Vector database technologies.
- Should be experienced in schema design and data modeling.
- Should be a driver in determining, implementing, and continuously improving the architecture and the security aspect throughout the systems, tools and workflows.
- Always striving for automation with distinctly unique mindset for optimization of database infrastructure working with an international (onsite and offshore) team.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to create and present concepts and recommendations to the management.
- Mongo DB/Vector DB /AWS/Azure cloud certifications.
- Experience with database technologies (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Aurora, MYSQL, Snowflake & DocumentDB & Vector DBs).
- Master's degree in an IT or related field
- MongoDB/Cloud Architecture certifications
- Experience with SOX/SOC1/SOC2 and other Compliance Audits
- Knowledge of SAS model
- VPC Pairing, Private/Public Links, network connectivity & security
- SSO/SAML integration
