MongoDB Database Administrator (DBA)

About Us

EPIKInDiFi builds the Ezee Platform, a lending-focused fintech suite (LOS/CRM) used by banks and NBFCs across India. Our microservices run on cloud/on-prem and handle sensitive financial and identity data under RBI and UIDAI compliance requirements. We’re looking for a MongoDB DBA who can keep our data layer fast, secure, highly available, and audit-ready.

Role Overview

You’ll own the design, performance, reliability, and security of our MongoDB deployments, both Enterprise and Community editions, across production and non-production environments. You’ll work closely with platform engineering, DevOps/SRE, and product teams to support high-volume lending workflows.

Key Responsibilities

Database Administration & Operations

•     Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain MongoDB clusters (replica sets and sharded clusters) across environments.

•     Administer both MongoDB Enterprise Advanced and MongoDB Community Edition deployments, choosing the right edition for each environment based on security, compliance, and cost needs.

•     Manage MongoDB deployments on Azure (VMs, AKS/Kubernetes operators) and/or MongoDB Atlas.

•     Plan and run version upgrades, patching, and migrations with minimal downtime, including migrations between Community and Enterprise editions.

•     Own capacity planning, storage management, and growth forecasting.

Performance & Optimization

•     Monitor and tune database performance: query analysis, indexing strategy, and explain plans.

•     Find and fix slow queries, lock contention, and resource bottlenecks.

•     Advise developers on schema design, data modelling, and aggregation pipelines.

•     Design and maintain sharding strategies and shard key selection.

High Availability & Disaster Recovery

•     Design and maintain replica sets, failover, and read/write concern configurations.

•     Implement and regularly test backup and restore strategies (mongodump/mongorestore, snapshots, point-in-time recovery, Ops Manager/Atlas backups).

•     Define and validate RPO/RTO targets and run DR drills.

Security & Compliance

•     Implement authentication, RBAC, encryption at rest and in transit (TLS), and auditing.

•     Configure Enterprise-only security features, including LDAP/Kerberos authentication, native encryption at rest (KMIP integration), and the database auditing framework.

•     Implement equivalent controls on Community Edition (for example, disk-level encryption, external audit logging, and access hardening) where Enterprise features aren’t available.

•     Manage access controls and secrets in line with least-privilege principles.

•     Support compliance and audit requirements under RBI guidelines and UIDAI data-handling norms, including data masking, retention, and PII protection.

•     Take part in security reviews, VAPT remediation, and audit evidence preparation.

Monitoring & Automation

•     Set up monitoring and alerting with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Atlas monitoring.

•     Automate routine DBA tasks (backups, health checks, user provisioning, index reviews) using shell, Python, or similar.

•     Work with SRE on incident response, root-cause analysis, and postmortems.

Collaboration

•     Review database changes in CI/CD pipelines and help define data migration practices.

•     Document runbooks, architecture, and operating procedures.

•     Mentor developers on MongoDB best practices.

Required Skills & Qualifications

•     4–5 years of hands-on experience as a MongoDB DBA in production, with practical experience on both MongoDB Enterprise Advanced and MongoDB Community Edition.

•     Clear understanding of the differences between Enterprise and Community editions, including security, auditing, encryption, management tooling, and licensing, and the ability to recommend the right fit.

•     Strong knowledge of MongoDB architecture: replica sets, sharding, WiredTiger, oplog, and read/write concerns.

•     Hands-on experience with MongoDB Ops Manager or Cloud Manager for deployment automation, monitoring, and backup.

•     Proven experience with performance tuning, indexing, and query optimization.

•     Hands-on experience with backup, restore, and disaster recovery planning.

•     Experience with MongoDB security: authentication, RBAC, TLS, encryption, and auditing.

•     Working knowledge of Linux administration and shell scripting.

•     Experience with at least one cloud platform (Azure preferred).

•     Familiarity with monitoring tools (Prometheus/Grafana, Ops Manager, or Atlas).

•     Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to handle production incidents calmly.

Good to Have

•     MongoDB Certified DBA (Associate or Professional).

•     Experience with MongoDB Atlas alongside self-managed Enterprise and Community deployments.

•     Experience running MongoDB on Kubernetes (AKS), including the MongoDB Enterprise Kubernetes

Operator or Community Kubernetes Operator.

•     Python or Node.js scripting for automation.

•     Prior experience in BFSI, fintech, or other regulated industries.

•     Knowledge of change data capture (Change Streams, Debezium).

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

What We Offer

•     The chance to own the data layer of a growing lending platform used by leading financial institutions.

•     Work on cloud-native, high-scale, compliance-driven systems.

•     A collaborative engineering culture with exposure to AI-driven lending products.

•     Competitive compensation and benefits.