Senior NoSQL Technical Specialist

• Experience with multi-model NoSQL databases, MongoDB, DocumentDB, CosmosDB Wide-column (Cassandra) Graph (Neo4j, Neptune)

• Time-series (InfluxDB, ScyllaDB, Timestream), Key-Value (Redis,Valkey, DynamoDB), Search (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch), AI and Vector Database support etc.

• In-depth understanding of NoSQL Internals

• Proven experience in distributed data management systems, cloud-native architectures including database modernization with AWS, Azure and GCP

• Knowledge of configuration management systems (e.g. Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet)

• Knowledge and experience with Percona platforms, PMB and Percona Toolkit

• We are looking for a sharp, disciplined, highly proficient and self-motivated database specialist with expertise in multiple NoSQL technologies including Design/Administration and passion for building cloud solutions with Amazon Web Services, Azure, and/or GCP

• Self-oriented professionals with a high sense of ownership and accountability who can design scalable, resilient, and flexible architectures to accelerate the adoption of new services

• Analyze, design, and build cloud-based solutions to address our clients' needs for IaaS, PaaS, and DBaaS solutions

• Help the development of engaging, modern data solutions, strategies, migrations, and applications

Responsibilities:

• Delivery of distributed NoSQL solutions, including multi-model architectures combining document, graph, and time-series capabilities

• Partner with our development team on database best practices and database design

• Partner with engineering teams to provide optimal data designs, query construction

• Design and Implement Data partitioning, sharding, and global distribution strategies

• Support Event-driven and streaming integrations

• Responsible for database configuration, implementation, and maintenance of database systems to ensure high performance with excellent reliability

• Partner with business teams in gathering business requirements and developing database solutions

• Design, Develop and implement large relational database systems and provide architecture guidance

• Gather technical requirements, assess client capabilities, and analyze findings to provide appropriate data solution recommendations and adoption strategy

• Define cloud, on-prem, and hybrid data architectures, including crafting multi-phased implementation roadmaps for High Availability, Scalability and Disaster Recovery solutions

• Strong knowledge of Cloud native solutions and expertise in AWS, Azure and/or GCP cloud solutions, reference architectures in related technologies

• Design strategies for database systems as well as set standards for operations, programming, and security

• Perform Security assessment for potential risk gaps

• Provide Technical leadership, work with the implementation team and operational support team as the subject matter expert to provide directions

• Automate the ingestion, delivery, processing, quality of structured and unstructured data models

• You will be responsible for monitoring day to day NoSQL database systems in terms of operations and management

• Perform database capacity planning and maintenance, monitoring and performance tuning

• Diagnose any database issues and employ measures to prevent recurrence

• Work with engineering and operations team in building tooling to drive scalability, reliability, and performance

• Research and develop new technologies and approaches for building highly available data persistence systems

• Continuously improve the reliability and performance of existing open-source database platforms in hybrid data solutions

• Adopt self-service tools to make it easier to use data store services to help the technical development team (or developer) succeed

• Provide appropriate support to users of database systems and database code deployments

• Provide database consulting to collaborating engineering teams (verifying database changes, database architecture solution, benchmark testing, collaborating on proof of concept, performance tuning, troubleshooting, etc.)

• Troubleshoot database issues in production and investigate external services or other levels of the architecture to analyze root causes

• Strategize on building proactive monitoring and alerting to pre-empt outages

• Participate in the OnCall rotations

• Skills/Abilities and Knowledge:

• Experience with multi-model NoSQL databases, like Document, Wide-column, Graph, Time-series, Search (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch), etc.

• In-depth understanding of NoSQL Internals and data management systems structure principles

• Knowledge building and maintaining largescale mission-critical production database systems

• Proven experience in cloud-native architectures and database modernization

• Knowledge analyzing issues from the application tier to database

• Experience working directly with cross-functional teams, resolving data or/and database related issues

• Knowledge of configuration management systems (e.g. Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet)

• Knowledge and experience with Percona platforms, PMB and Percona Toolkit

• Systems engineering experience, including Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking and troubleshooting

• Expert level knowledge and experience with Cloud database technologies

• Expert level knowledge and experience in performance monitoring and cost optimization methods

• Experience in tuning database server configurations, queries, and indexing strategies

• Expert level knowledge and experience with Virtualization, Networking, and Linux

• Experience with strategic architecture and roadmap development

• Professional Level Certified Specialist or Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer (or equivalent)

• Strong knowledge of DevOps technologies and experience with CI/CD practices

• Strong leadership, communication, persuasion, and teamwork skills

• Experience with management of distributed databases in multi-cloud environment is a strong plus

• Strong troubleshooting skills with the ability to identify issues before they become problems

• Possess working knowledge of agile development methodologies including DevOps concepts

• Proficient in a relevant programming language for cloud platforms (e.g. Python, Shell, Go, Javascript, etc)

• Preferably a degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology or related fields

• Deep understanding of NoSQL engines internals would be good

• Proficiency with Linux system administration

• Extensive experience with installation, management, upgrades, backup and restore of large key/value, OLTP/OLAP database system

• Experience benchmarking, clustering, and tuning the databases for performance, reliability and scalability

Originally posted on Himalayas