Senior Site Reliability Engineer + MongoDB

Position: Senior Site Reliability Engineer + MongoDB Basic Purpose The Platform Database Engineer is responsible for designing, deploying, administering, and optimizing MongoDB (Atlas and on-premise) databases within a large-scale, cloud-based enterprise ecosystem. The role combines deep database expertise with SRE principles to ensure performance, reliability, scalability, and automation across critical data platforms. Essential Duties and Responsibilities Architect, implement, and maintain MongoDB Atlas and non-Atlas environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security. Design and enforce resiliency and disaster recovery strategies, including backup, restore, and multi-region failover. Optimize database performance and query execution to support application development teams through all SDLC phases. Develop and manage infrastructure-as-code solutions (Terraform, GitOps) for database provisioning and automation. Implement and refine observability and monitoring solutions using Dynatrace, CloudWatch, and MongoDB native telemetry. Manage access control, auditing, and encryption to meet enterprise security and compliance standards. Collaborate with application, DevOps, and platform teams to drive continuous improvement in performance and operational excellence. Lead incident response for database-related issues, drive root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions. Mentor and guide technical teams, contributing to documentation, standards, and design reviews. Other duties as assigned by manager. Supervision May mentor junior DBAs or SRE engineers. Relationships Internal: Application developers, cloud operations, platform engineering, InfoSec, compliance, and architecture teams. External: Cloud vendors (AWS, MongoDB Atlas support), third‑party monitoring and observability providers. Work Environment Remote: This role is fully remote, and the associate is expected to perform assigned responsibilities from a home‑based environment. Minimum Qualifications Minimum of 4+ years’ experience as a MongoDB DBA, including 4+ years in MongoDB Atlas administration. Strong experience in AWS ecosystem (EC2, EKS, CloudWatch, IAM, KMS, VPC, Lambda). Proficiency in Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD automation, and containerized workloads (EKS/Kubernetes). Experience with Dynatrace, Prometheus, or equivalent observability platforms. Strong Linux administration and scripting (Python, Bash). Excellent analytical, communication, and documentation skills. Available for on‑call rotation and incident response as required. Travel: Education Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related discipline; or equivalent practical experience. Certifications/Training MongoDB Certified DBA (preferred). AWS Certified Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer (preferred). Preferred Qualifications Experience with Kafka, CDC, and data integration platforms. Familiarity with GitOps practices and infrastructure observability at enterprise scale. Benefits Life insurance Major Medical Expenses Insurance Minor Medical Expense Insurance Savings Fund 30 days as Christmas Bonus 12 days of vacation in the first year, increasing 2 days as dictated by law. Continuously training and development opportunities to help employees achieve their professional goals. #J-18808-Ljbffr HCLTech