Database Administrator

The ideal candidate will be responsible for creating, installing and managing our databases. You will ensure optimal database performance by analyzing database issues and monitoring database performance.

Primary responsibilities and Expectations:

Candidate Profile:

The Database Professional will participate in the design, implementation, automation, optimization and ongoing operational administration related tasks of the backend system running on MongoDB, NoSQL database infrastructure. Candidates should be ready to take the instant support/operational challenges of infrastructure platforms running database services.

Essential Requirements (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities):

MongoDB, Linux, Cloud Infrastructure and Automation

Background (essential and desired):

Database Administrator/DBA/DevOps/DbOps/CloudOps.

Education (essential and desired):

Eng. Graduate/MCA/MTech etc.

Strong DBA Experience – MongoDB

Fine-tuning of configurations - MongoDB, MongoDB aggregation framework

Implement optimal backup and recovery, understand and optimize query performance.

Identify slow queries, Replication lags, Node failures, Index usage patterns

Evaluate, plan and perform the DB upgrades, design and implement DR plans & HA solutions and recommendations.

Maintain and configure MongoDB instances, design indexing strategies, configure, monitor, and deploy replica sets.

Keep clear documentation of the database setup and architecture.

Write procedures for backup and disaster recovery.

Ensure that the databases achieve maximum performance and availability, design indexing strategies, configure, monitor, and deploy replica sets.

Upgrade databases through patches, Create roles and users, and set their permissions.

Implementing best practices for backups, replication, and health checks.

Work closely with the application team to understand what changes are coming in a build/patch/hotfix, do an impact analysis, and fine-tune the queries if any.

Real-Time & continuous follow-up with Development teams for incident/Problem resolution.

Should have working experience on implementing best optimized and secure practices for NoSQL database stores

Should have working experience on infra-resource planning, database upgrades/patching, backup/recovery and database troubleshooting.

Should have working experience on all database support activities like Replication, Scalability, Availability, Performance tuning/optimizations on the database servers running large volumes of data.

Should have working experience on building highly scalable schema design for the application using No-SQL.

Good to have experience writing Bash Shell Scripts and Python API to automate the support related tasks.

Good to have experience with DevOps automation tools like Ansible.

Passionate about embracing new database technologies