Database Administrator II
Phenom
n Senior Database Administrator (DBA II) with strong expertise in MongoDB to manage highly available, large-scale production database environments.
The ideal candidate will have deep experience with MongoDB administration, performance tuning, replication, sharding, backup/recovery, security, monitoring, and automation. Experience with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and other distributed databases is an added advantage.
What You'll Do
- Manage and optimize large-scale MongoDB production clusters.
- Administer Replica Sets, Sharding, Failover, Replication, and High Availability.
- Perform query, index, aggregation pipeline, and database performance tuning.
- Own backup, Point-in-Time Recovery, disaster recovery, and RTO/RPO processes.
- Implement MongoDB security, RBAC, authentication, auditing, and access controls.
- Monitor database health and performance using Grafana, Prometheus, PMM, and CloudWatch.
- Troubleshoot critical production database issues and perform RCA.
- Automate database operations using Terraform, SaltStack, Python/Bash scripting, and related tools.
- Support other database technologies including Aurora PostgreSQL, Cassandra, ClickHouse, and Elasticsearch.
- 4+ years of Database Administration experience.
- Strong hands-on expertise in MongoDB administration.
- Experience managing large-scale production MongoDB environments.
- Strong knowledge of Replica Sets, Sharding, Indexing, Query Optimization, Backup/Recovery, HA/DR, and Security.
- Strong Linux troubleshooting and AWS experience.
- Experience with database monitoring and automation.
- Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL/PostgreSQL.
- Cassandra, ClickHouse, or Elasticsearch.
- Terraform and SaltStack.
- AWS DMS, Debezium, and CDC.
- MongoDB-to-PostgreSQL migration experience.
Primary: MongoDB
Secondary: Aurora PostgreSQL
Additional: Cassandra, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch
Cloud: AWS
Automation/Monitoring: Terraform, SaltStack, Grafana, Prometheus, PMM, CloudWatch
Why Phenom?
Join Phenom to build and operate large-scale, cloud-native database platforms powering millions of talent interactions while solving complex scalability, performance, and reliability challenges