GHX
Sr Data Platform Engineer - MongoDB
Office Location or Remote - USA · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$114k-$152kDetected 28 days ago
PythonBashSQLNoSQLPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearchAWSCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTerraformAnsibleLinuxDatadogDevOpsPlatform EngineeringRESTIncident ResponseSupply ChainCustomer SupportPatient Care
About the role
- It is our passion and vision for a more operationally efficient healthcare supply chain, helping organizations reduce - not shift - the cost of doing business, paving the way to delivering patient care more effectively.
- Together we take more than a billion dollars out of the cost of delivering healthcare every year.
- GHX is privately owned, operates in the United States, Canada and Europe, and employs more than 1000 people worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain MongoDB replica sets, sharded clusters, and standalone instances across production, staging, and development environments
- Perform capacity planning and performance tuning for MongoDB workloads, including index optimization, query analysis, and WiredTiger cache management
- Design and implement backup and recovery strategies using mongodump, Ops Manager backups, AWS snapshots, or third-party solutions
- Implement monitoring and alerting for MongoDB metrics including replication lag, oplog size, connection pools, cache utilization, and slow queries
- Perform MongoDB upgrades (version and patch releases) with minimal downtime using rolling upgrades and blue-green deployment strategies
- Manage MongoDB security including authentication (LDAP, x.509), authorization (RBAC), encryption at rest, and TLS/SSL configuration
- Provide guidance and mentorship to junior database engineers on MongoDB best practices, schema design, and operational procedures
- Collaborate with application development teams on MongoDB schema design, query optimization, and data modeling strategies
- Partner with DevOps and Infrastructure teams on MongoDB deployment automation, container orchestration (Kubernetes), and cloud infrastructure
- Improper interference with the ability of GHX's employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.
Requirements
- Familiarity with at least one additional database platform (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, Redis, or Elasticsearch)
- Experience with configuration management and automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, or similar)
- Experience with MongoDB Atlas (managed MongoDB service) or MongoDB Cloud Manager/Ops Manager
- Experience with MongoDB change streams, aggregation pipelines, and time-series collections
Nice to have
- Participate in change management processes, incident response, and on-call rotation for production MongoDB clusters
- Safeguard the company's data, tools, and information systems by adhering to Operational and Security policies and procedures throughout the lifecycle of service delivery
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college in CS or related discipline or equivalent experience
- 5-8 years' experience in Database Administration with at least 3 years of hands-on MongoDB experience
- Expert-level knowledge of MongoDB architecture including replica sets, sharding, oplog, WiredTiger storage engine, and index structures
- Proven experience managing MongoDB in high-transaction, high-availability production environments (24x7 uptime requirements)
- Strong understanding of MongoDB performance tuning, query optimization, and index design patterns
- Experience with MongoDB backup and recovery strategies including point-in-time recovery and disaster recovery planning
Compensation
- The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high end of the GHX's salary range for this position.
- The base salary is one component of GHX's total compensation package for employees.
- $114,000 - $152,000
Benefits
- It's the way you do business in healthcare
- Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) enables better patient care and billions in savings for the healthcare community by maximizing automation, efficiency and accuracy of business processes.
- It is our passion and vision for a more operationally efficient healthcare supply chain, helping organizations reduce - not
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