MongoDB Database Administrator

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and support MongoDB databases across Development, Staging, Production, and DR environments.
• Manage MongoDB replica sets, replication, sharding, and high-availability configurations.
• Perform database installation, configuration, patching, version upgrades, and migrations.
• Monitor database health, performance, capacity, storage, and replication lag.
• Troubleshoot complex database issues, performance bottlenecks, and production incidents.
• Implement and manage backup, restore, and disaster recovery procedures, including periodic recovery testing.
• Manage database security, authentication, role-based access control, auditing, and encryption.
• Perform query analysis, indexing, and performance tuning.
• Automate routine DBA tasks, monitoring, alerting, and maintenance activities.
• Maintain technical documentation, SOPs, and operational procedures.
• Coordinate with application, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams to resolve database issues.
• Ensure database availability, reliability, and compliance with organizational security and operational standards.
• Participate in incident, problem, and change management, including on-call support when required.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Strong, hands-on experience as a MongoDB DBA, with MongoDB as the primary specialization.
• Valid MongoDB certification relevant to database administration.
• Proven experience administering and supporting MongoDB in production environments.
• Strong knowledge of replication, replica sets, backup and recovery, performance tuning, security, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with MongoDB upgrades, patching, monitoring, capacity planning, and automation.
• Experience with MongoDB Enterprise and/or MongoDB Atlas.
• Good knowledge of Linux/Unix administration and scripting.
• Understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, and production database operations.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Additional Advantage

• Hands-on experience administering PostgreSQL, including installation, configuration, upgrades, backup and recovery, replication, security, and performance tuning.
• PostgreSQL certification.

Ideal Candidate

A certified, core MongoDB DBA with proven production administration experience who can independently manage database operations, troubleshoot complex issues, and maintain high availability and reliability. PostgreSQL experience will be a plus.

Pay: AED18,000.00 - AED20,000.00 per month

Work Location: In person