Designation – DBA – NoSQL
Location – India
About employer– Machinepulse
Job description:
The successful candidate will have a track record of operational excellence managing large scale production databases utilizing one or more of the following (MongoDB, Cloudera, Hortonworks, HBase, Cassandra). You will have excellent communication skills, a keen attention to detail, and a passion for learning new technology and building high quality, scalable software.
Responsibilities
- Ensuring the continuous availability of several MongoDB and Hadoop clusters
- Evaluating and Operationaizing new technology
- Automating and innovating new ways to manage database infrastructure
- Manage and maintain servers across multiple environment
- Advise development teams on clustering, indexing and other performance and architecture issues
- Monitor deployments for capacity and performance
- Implement and maintain MMS (MongoDB Management Services)
- Define and implement backup strategies per data retention requirements
- Admin MongoDB to achieve 100% monthly availability
- Solve production problems when needed 24×7
- Develop and document best practices for data migration
- Ability to work in a fast-paced development environment with a broad scope of responsibilities
- Ability to work seamlessly as part of a multi-site, multicultural development team
- Self-motivated, passionate about software, and driven to achieve
Qualification and Skills Required
- Strong operational experience with NoSQL Data Modeling
- Minimum 5+ years of experience working with large distributed database systems with focus on performance & tuning
- 2+ years of experience with MongoDB scaling across data centers and/or in-depth understanding of MongoDB HA strategies, including replica sets and sharding
- Deep knowledge of DB performance/scaling concepts and tuning best practices
- Ability to write and maintain Unix/Linux shell scripts
- Familiarity with map-reduce in a production NoSQL environment
- Experience with the Atlassian Software Development and Collaboration Tools (Jira, Confluence)
- Experience with Big Data ecosystem tools is a plus
- Able to straddle traditional operational and database admin roles
- Highly self-motivated with the desire to embrace new database technologies and must be able to work independently or within a team in a high demand and dynamic environment
- Experience with automation (Chef/Puppet)
- Familiarity with distributed file systems (HDFS, GlusterFS/GridFS2, etc.)
- Experience supporting cloud based environments AWS is a plus
- Experience with traditional SQL databases (i.e. MSSQL) is a plus
- Experience porting body of SQL code to a NoSQL environment (map-reduce or other) is a plus
- JavaScript programming is a plus
- Strong team player with excellent written and verbal skills
Interested people can apply for this job can mail their CV to [email protected] with subject as DBA – NoSQL – Machinepulse – India
