Database Engineer

Database Engineer

Requirements

• Hands-on experience on

  NoSQL/SQL databases

  , with significant time as a

  DBA on MongoDB

  .
• Experienced in

  hosting, maintaining, and owning large MongoDB clusters on the cloud

  .
• Experience in one or more of the

  Time Series Databases

  like InfluxDB, Prometheus, Victoria Metrics.

• Bonus

  if experienced in managing

  ScyllaDB clusters

  or

  AWS ElastiCache

  .

• Bonus

  if experienced with

  automation using Terraform and Ansible

  .

Roles and Responsibilities

• Enhance the scalability and performance

  of existing database architecture adding/removing shards regularly.
• Perform

  database maintenance, migration, and upgrading

  hardware and software.
• Conduct

  diagnostic tests, evaluate performance metrics, and ensure high availability or uptime

  of database services.

• Own the reliability and availability of MongoDB and ScyllaDB infra

  in the cloud Servers (EC2 Instances), storage, etc.

• Monitor the overall health parameters of the clusters

  like CPU Utilization, Memory utilization, Operation Execution times, Replication lag, and load balancing of data and queries, and identify the stress areas.

• Document processes

  and comply with best practices in database management.

• Automate routine or manual DBA activities

  .
• Ensure

  metrics, logs, and dashboards

  are available for all critical components.