WE ARE HIRING | Azure Cosmos DB Architect
Location: Hybrid – Phoenix, AZ / Dallas, TX / Columbus, OH
Position: Azure Cosmos DB Developer / Architect
Experience: 12+ Years Overall | 3+ Years Hands-on Azure Cosmos DB
Work Mode: Hybrid Onshore
We are looking for an experienced Azure Cosmos DB Architect with strong hands-on expertise in designing, implementing, and supporting large-scale, mission-critical applications using Azure Cosmos DB.
The ideal candidate should have experience building highly available, scalable, high-throughput, and always-on enterprise solutions, along with strong production support and performance optimization skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and optimize Azure Cosmos DB solutions for high-volume transactional workloads.
- Define data modeling, partition key strategies, and indexing policies.
- Architect highly available, resilient, and scalable database solutions.
- Optimize RU/s consumption, throughput, query performance, and latency.
- Troubleshoot production issues and resolve database performance bottlenecks.
- Manage deployments, capacity planning, schema evolution, and production operations.
- Implement disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity strategies.
- Integrate Cosmos DB with Azure cloud services.
- Develop operational runbooks and engineering standards.
- Drive cost optimization and platform improvements.
Required Technical Skills:
- Azure Cosmos DB architecture and development.
- Cosmos DB data modeling and partitioning strategies.
- Query optimization and performance tuning.
- RU/s and throughput optimization.
- Indexing policies and Change Feed processing.
- Multi-region deployment and global distribution.
- High availability and disaster recovery.
- Monitoring, logging, and observability.
- Distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
- Production support for high-volume enterprise applications.
Azure Ecosystem Experience:
- Azure Functions
- Azure App Services
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Azure Event Hubs
- Azure Service Bus
- Azure Application Insights
Experience Requirements:
- 12+ years of software engineering and database development experience.
- 3+ years of hands-on Azure Cosmos DB experience in production environments.
Ideal Candidate: A hands-on Azure Cosmos DB Architect who can balance solution architecture, database development, performance engineering, and production operations.
