Lead Database Administrator

Please contact PAarna Ghosh at or email at Title: Sr./ Lead Database Administrator with MongoDB, Netezza and NoSQLLocation: remote till office reopens , Non-locals will workWe are looking for a Lead Database Administrator (MongoDB/IBM Netezza), who will be working in a senior capacity as part of a team of DBAs. Working in collaboration with cross-functional teams to design, build, upgrade, modify and operationally administer new or existing databases on multiple database technology platforms in support of critical enterprise applications. Primary focus area would be MongoDB/Netezza.Required Skills (top 3 to 5/ non-negotiables): 1. MongoDB Administration2. Netezza3. NoSQLMust have prior experience in and deep knowledge of the following:

• Strong MongoDB and or Netezza administration, database architecture skills supporting multi-terabyte enterprise database environments. Recent experience installing, configuring and managing the mentioned platforms.
• MongoDB/Netezza Security and Hardening expertise is required.
• A learning mentality is a must and willingness to get familiar with and develop expertise in new and varied database technology platforms both on-premises and in the cloud.
• It is expected to have an automation mindset to build streamlined solutions requiring minimal manual intervention as possible.
• Practical experience in pro-active and reactive database performance troubleshooting and tuning.
• Database capacity forecasting
• Supporting large scale MongoDB/Netezza databases on Linux OS.
• Databases hosted on virtualized platforms (VMware)
• Extensive experience with different backup/restore and disaster recovery solutions

• Expertise supporting multiple No SQL, relational database platforms. Experience in the following platforms is highly desirable: Cloudera (Hadoop), MySQL, IBM DB2, IBM Netezza
• Experience supporting Oracle Goldengate Replication technology and Kafka is highly desirable.
• Unix shell scripting, Python scripting skills are highly desirable.
• Infrastructure Automation skills highly desired What you like to see on resumes? (nice to have) 1. Cloudera 2. Goldengate 3. Kafka 4. Automation, Python