Couchbase DBA

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Responsibilities

Own operational support and lifecycle management for DynamoDB and DAX environments supporting PEP. Partner with PEP application teams to design and validate DynamoDB data models, access patterns, and partition strategies. Manage DynamoDB capacity planning, including on-demand vs provisioned throughput, autoscaling, and cost optimization. Support and operate DAX clusters, including cache behavior tuning, failover considerations, and performance validation. Design and support low-impact change and deployment strategies for NoSQL workloads. Monitor NoSQL environments using CloudWatch and Datadog, identifying performance bottlenecks and availability risks. Implement security controls including IAM-based access, encryption at rest and in transit, and least-privilege policies. Collaborate with Cloud Engineering and DevOps teams using Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code to provision and manage NoSQL resources. Support incident response and on-call rotations for production NoSQL platforms. Produce operational documentation, runbooks, and best practices for NoSQL usage across PEP. Provide guidance on NoSQL vs relational tradeoffs, ensuring appropriate technology choices for application use cases.

Qualifications

Senior-level experience supporting DynamoDB in production environments. Hands-on experience with DAX, including cache behavior, performance tuning, and operational considerations. Strong understanding of NoSQL data modeling, partitioning, consistency models, and access pattern design. Experience operating NoSQL systems at scale with high availability and low latency requirements. Strong knowledge of AWS services including IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, and KMS. Experience using Terraform or similar IaC tools to manage DynamoDB, DAX, and related infrastructure. Experience supporting 24/7 production platforms and participating in on-call rotations. Ability to work independently, troubleshoot complex production issues, and communicate clearly with application teams. Availability to work U.S. Central Time hours in a remote capacity.