Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Database Engineer (MongoDB) for a contract assignment with one of our premier Insurance services clients in Bethlehem, PA, or Holmdel, NJ .
Responsibilities :
- Be part of an on-call rotation providing xx incident and outage response, including non-business hours changes.
- Perform initial investigation and / or troubleshooting of database and database system issues to resolve issue & determine root cause.
- Process all support requests within SLA by following procedural requirements.
- Escalate to vendors, where necessary, to ensure timely resolution.
- Thoroughly document steps taken to resolve incidents and fulfil catalog requests within ServiceNow tickets.
- Develop, document, and update standard operating procedures and knowledgebase articles.
- Identify, address, and resolve repeating alert trends to improve stability and performance.
- Suggest defects and product / infrastructure enhancements to improve stability and automation.
- Participation in periodic skills enhancement sessions and training courses.
- Be a project lead, as well as a project participant for various activities : cloud migration, lifecycle management, application modernization, capacity planning, financial optimization, performance, and stability optimization, build and design state configuration automation, etc.
Required Skills :
- Bachelor's Degree or similar required.
- years of Mongodb DBA experience.
- Experience with Mongodb versions to .
- Experience with Mongodb replicaset and sharding clusters.
- Familiarity with Mongodb external LDAP authentication.
- Experience with Ops manager installation, configuration and job automation activities.
- Experience with database migrations to cloud.
- Mongodb query tuning experience.
- Shell scripting and automation experience.
- Experience with Mongodb tools, backup and restores.
- AWS / Cloud Services experience : EC, RDS, and Aurora
- Cloud deployments experience : Jenkins, Bitbucket, Terraform
- Hands-on, technically adept DBA, capable of performing required DB tasks experience.
- Strong troubleshooting / performance tuning skills.
- Ability to assess and improve query performance.
- Ability to Handle common database life cycle processes, such as upgrade, backup, recovery, migration, etc.
- Profile server resource usage, optimize and tweak as necessary.
- Expert level Mongodb version / / , NO-SQL technologies, patching, troubleshooting, performance tracking / tuning, back-up / recovery, remote monitoring skills with hands-on experience in -large and very dynamic environments.
- Strong commitment to following SDLC / Change-Management principles.
- Self-starter and be able to perform work with minimal supervisory direction.
- Knowledge of data quality, data management, and data testing strategies and practices.
- Strong communication skills, both oral and written.
- Strong experience working with ticketing tools such as ServiceNow, Zenoss or any other monitoring tool, Cloud monitoring tools (CloudWatch, CloudTrail), AppDynamics (or similar APM tool).
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Keen analytical and structured approach to problem solving.
- Ability to accommodate flexible work schedules.
Preferred Skills :
- Ability to diagnose problems and triage / resolve issues across various tiers (application, network, database, server, or storage tiers).
- Ability to implement automation to reduce manual administrative tasks through use of jobs, scripts, cron, or other techniques.
- Experience in DB UDB, Oracle, Postgres, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, and / or Cassandra is plus.
- Experience with configuration management tools : SCCM; Puppet; or Ansible.
- Development or enhancement of training and upskilling programs.
30+ days ago