Cgg
MongoDB Database Engineer
Houston, United States of America
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 15 days ago
PythonGoBashGitSQLPostgreSQLMongoDBDockerKubernetesLinuxPrometheusGrafanaDevOpsCollaborationProblem Solving
About the role
- You will join a team responsible for managing the database platforms that underpin Viridien's global software and HPC environments.
Responsibilities
- Manage, maintain, and support MongoDB and relational database environments.
- Support PostgreSQL environments, including day-to-day administration, backup, and recovery.
- Develop strategies to support data growth, scalability, and high-traffic workloads.
- Implement backup, restore, Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR), and High Availability (HA) solutions.
- Support business continuity through robust operational practices.
- Work with development teams to improve database design and application performance.
- Support testing, validation, and quality assurance activities for database changes.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Proven experience administering MongoDB in production environments, including sharded clusters and replica sets.
- Experience supporting PostgreSQL or other enterprise relational databases.
- Experience with MongoDB Ops Manager and monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
- Strong knowledge of database backup, recovery, PITR, and High Availability strategies.
- Experience troubleshooting and optimising database performance.
- Ability to work effectively in production-critical environments.
- Experience supporting globally distributed or high-availability database platforms.
- Experience with database automation using Bash, Python, or Golang.
- Familiarity with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab, or DevOps practices.
- Required
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Preferred
- Knowledge of data modelling, schema design, and database optimisation techniques.
Benefits
- Monitor database health, performance, and availability using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and MongoDB Ops Manager.
Company info
- Install, configure, and administer MongoDB sharded clusters and replica sets.
- Analyse and optimise database performance, queries, and configurations.
- Troubleshoot database issues and ensure the reliability of production systems.
- Contribute to automation, operational improvements, and database best practices.
- Experience contributing to quality assurance and testing of database platforms.
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