Overview
Skills
Job Details
Role:MongoDB DBA
Location: Plano, TX or 100% remote (open to either)
Duration: 6 months; likely extensions
Work Authorization: Any
Interview: 1-2 rounds; Offer
Notes:
MongoDB
Database Management
Sharding
High Availability
Job Description:
MongoDB DBA
Key Responsibilities
Manage and maintain MongoDB sharded clusters, ensuring high availability, performance, and security.
Perform MongoDB installations, upgrades, and patches across multiple shards and replica sets.
Monitor and optimize query performance, analyze slow queries, and provide tuning recommendations.
Scale clusters (adding/removing shards, rebalancing data) as per workload demands.
Use monitoring tools to track cluster health and resource utilization.
Troubleshoot replication lag, connectivity, and other database issues.
Document configurations, procedures, and best practices.
Required Skills & Experience
5+ years of hands-on experience in managing MongoDB sharded clusters.
Expertise in installation, upgrades, performance tuning, backups, and scaling MongoDB clusters
Hands-on experience in manual cluster management (backups, restores, scaling, replication).
Proficiency in performance tuning (indexing, query optimization, explain plans).