MongoDB Engineer
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Working with one of our top financial clients, this role calls for a MongoDB Engineer. In this position, you will design and implement advanced MongoDB standards, ensuring scalable, secure, and high-performance database environments that align with enterprise needs. This is a contract opportunity with potential for extension and full-time conversion.
Responsibilities
- Design replica set and sharded cluster topologies based on workload requirements such as read/write patterns, data growth, latency, and multi-AZ/region deployments
- Develop schema and index strategies aligned with document modeling best practices
- Perform capacity planning and conduct performance tuning on IOPS, CPU, RAM, and storage systems
- Create backup and restore strategies to ensure data integrity and availability
- Implement security hardening measures including RBAC, TLS, encryption-at-rest, auditing, IP allowlists, and compliance with CIS benchmarks
- Integrate observability tools such as metrics, logs, and tracing for monitoring MongoDB environments
- Manage release cycles including rolling upgrades, feature compatibility versions, and patching schedules
- Automate database provisioning, patching, and configuration using Ansible (IaC), ensuring idempotency and drift remediation
- Collaborate with application teams for data modeling reviews and optimize performance tuning strategies
- Define standards, develop runbooks, conduct readiness and disaster recovery testing, ensuring compliance with frameworks like SOC2, ISO27001, PCI, and HIPAA
Desired Skill-Set
- 5+ years of experience administering MongoDB in a production environment at scale, including replica sets and sharded clusters
- 3+ years of expertise with Ansible, including roles, collections, CI/CD integration, and testing with Molecule
- Strong Linux foundation (RHEL/Ubuntu), networking knowledge, and understanding of storage and TLS/PKI fundamentals
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Bash and Python for automation and operational tooling
Nice to Have
- MongoDB Certified DBA or Developer certification
- Experience with Ops Manager and MongoDB Atlas at scale
- Background working in compliance-driven environments and performance engineering
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