Role: AWS DYNAMO ADMIN
Location: REMOTE
Duration: 12-month Contract
Interview: Video
Job description:
Role Overview
We are seeking a seniorlevel NoSQL Database Administrator to support the Property Engagement Platform (PEP), a missioncritical, customerfacing system. While the NoSQL footprint is smaller than Hilton s relational environment, this role is high impact due to strict availability, latency, and performance requirements. This is a handson, productionfocused role, not advisory or theoretical.
The position is fully remote, operates on U.S. Central Time, and requires a selfdirected senior resource who can operate independently in a complex cloud environment.
Top Technical Skills to Prioritize (MustHave)
**Must have 2-4 years of hands-on-use of Couchbase experience**
Recruiters should prioritize candidates with real production ownership, not just exposure.
- AWS DynamoDB (SeniorLevel, Production Experience)
- Handson operational support of DynamoDB in live environments
- Strong understanding of NoSQL data modeling, access patterns, partitioning, and consistency models
- Experience making tradeoffs between ondemand vs provisioned throughput, autoscaling, and cost optimization
- DAX (Strong Preference)
- Practical experience supporting DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) in production
- Understanding of cache behavior, performance tuning, failover considerations, and latencysensitive workloads
- AWS Cloud Fundamentals
- IAM (leastprivilege access, rolebased permissions)
- CloudWatch monitoring and alerting
- KMS, encryption at rest and in transit
- VPC/networking awareness as it relates to database services
- Infrastructure as Code
- Experience using Terraform (or similar IaC tools) to provision and manage DynamoDB, DAX, and supporting infrastructure
- Comfort working alongside Cloud Engineering / DevOps teams
- Production Operations
- Experience supporting 24/7 platforms
- Participation in oncall rotations
- Incident response, troubleshooting, and postincident followups
- Ability to document runbooks and operational best practices
NicetoHave / Strong Differentiators
These are not required, but should be flagged as strong positives:
- Couchbase (cluster management, upgrades, XDCR, performance tuning)
- Amazon DocumentDB or MongoDBcompatible platforms
- Datadog for NoSQL monitoring, alerting, and dashboards
- Background transitioning workloads from relational (MySQL/Postgres) to NoSQL
- Experience supporting highscale or multiregion architectures
Soft Skills & Seniority Indicators (Very Important)
This role requires a senior mindset, not just technical skill. Recruiters should screen for:
- Ability to work independently
- Comfortable owning environments endtoend with minimal handholding
- Can prioritize work, identify risks, and take initiative
- Strong communication skills
- Able to clearly explain NoSQL concepts and tradeoffs to application teams
- Comfortable partnering with developers, cloud engineers, and DevOps
- Can translate technical issues into clear, actionable explanations
- Calm under pressure
- Experience supporting production systems where downtime or latency has real impact
- Can troubleshoot complex issues methodically during incidents
- Processoriented but pragmatic
- Understands operational rigor (change management, documentation)
- Can design lowimpact deployment and change strategies
What Recruiters Should Listen For in Screening Calls
Good signs
- Candidate describes specific DynamoDB use cases, not generic AWS experience
- Can explain why certain access patterns or partition strategies were chosen
- Has owned production incidents and can explain lessons learned
- Comfortable discussing cost vs performance tradeoffs
- Talks about collaboration with application teams, not working in isolation
Red flags
- Only theoretical knowledge of DynamoDB or NoSQL
- No real oncall or production ownership experience
- Focuses heavily on relational databases without clear NoSQL depth
- Struggles to explain DAX, caching behavior, or performance tuning
- Needs heavy direction or escalation to solve issues
Logistics to Confirm Early
- Fully remote, U.S.based
- Availability during U.S. Central Time business hours
- Willingness to participate in oncall rotations
- Seniorlevel contract resource comfortable with handson delivery
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