MongoDB Engineer & Administrator

Role Description

Own the data tier of one of VA's most complex cloud platforms. As the MongoDB Engineer & Administrator, you will manage MongoDB Enterprise Advanced instances supporting mission-critical scheduling, telehealth, and digital health applications.

The MongoDB Engineer & Administrator manages all aspects of MongoDB Enterprise Advanced across production, staging, and sandbox environments including:

• Performance tuning
• Backup and recovery
• Encryption
• Secrets management
• Vendor coordination

Qualifications

• 3 years of experience administering MongoDB Enterprise Advanced in production cloud environments
• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, information technology, or related field; MongoDB Certified DBA Associate (preferred)

Requirements

• Excellent experience administering MongoDB Enterprise Advanced including:
• Replica sets
• Sharding
• Performance tuning
• Index optimization
• Capacity planning at enterprise scale
• Excellent knowledge of MongoDB backup and recovery including:
• Scheduled snapshots
• Point-in-time recovery
• Restoration validation
• Excellent experience with MongoDB security including:
• Encryption at rest and in transit
• RBAC
• Field-level encryption
• Integration with HashiCorp Vault and AWS Secrets Manager
• Excellent ability to manage MongoDB in containerized Kubernetes/EKS environments including:
• Stateful workload management
• Persistent volume configuration
• Excellent experience with MongoDB monitoring
• Above average ability to configure alerting for:
• Performance degradation
• Storage thresholds
• Replication lag
• Above average experience implementing MongoDB as part of event-driven architectures integrating with Kafka/MSK for scheduling and healthcare data pipelines
• Above average knowledge of vulnerability scanning and remediation for MongoDB
• Experience supporting a federal agency
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Benefits

• The annual projected pay range for this position is $81,284 - $116,894.
• Medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage for you and your family.
• Life Insurance, short-term disability and long-term disability paid for by the Company.
• Supplemental coverages including Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital.
• Additional Life insurance coverage for you and your dependents.
• 401k plan with various options to select based on your retirement goals.

Security

• Active Federal Civilian Public Trust clearance
• U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident that has lived in the United States for at least 3 years
• Federal Civilian Public Trust consists of a review of up to but not limited to:
• Covers 10 year period and in some instances lifetime events
• OPM Security Investigations Index (SII)
• DOD Defense Central Investigations Index (DCII)
• National Agency Check (NAC) records
• FBI name check
• FBI fingerprint check
• Credit report check
• Written inquiries to previous employers and references listed on the application for employment
• Potential interviews with the subject, spouse, neighbors, supervisor, coworkers
• Law enforcement check
• Court records check
• Education check - Attendance and Degrees

Tasks/Activities

• Administers all MongoDB Enterprise Advanced instances across production, staging, and sandbox environments
• Manages MongoDB performance including:
• Query optimization
• Index management
• Capacity planning
• Identifies performance degradation before it impacts platform services
• Implements and maintains MongoDB backup policies ensuring:
• 15-minute snapshots retained 7 days
• Daily snapshots retained 30 days
• Monthly snapshots retained 60 days with retrieval times not exceeding 1 minute
• Implements and operates MongoDB secrets management through HashiCorp Vault and AWS Secrets Manager
• Ensures automated rotation for 100% of credentials where supported and manual rotation at least every 90 days
• Ensures all MongoDB configuration is provisioned through approved Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling (e.g., Terraform)
• Prohibits manual production changes except through approved break-glass procedures
• Supports daily Change Control Board (CCB) meetings for MongoDB-related changes
• Ensures all production changes execute within government-approved windows with documented backout plans
• Supports the Scheduling Event Bus by providing MongoDB data tier design and operational support for event-driven workloads
• Coordinates with the Vulnerability Analyst and Security team to conduct and remediate MongoDB vulnerability scans
• Ensures versions remain on approved releases with no end-of-life software in production
• Contributes MongoDB metrics, incident reports, and performance data to the Monthly Maintenance Report