MongoDB Administrator

About the role

We are looking for an experienced MongoDB Administrator to manage and optimise our MongoDB environments. The role involves supervising existing deployments, designing future architectures, and ensuring the databases support mission‑critical applications with high performance, availability and security.

Key responsibilities

• Install, configure and maintain MongoDB clusters, including sharding and replication.
• Monitor performance, tune queries and indexes, and optimise resource usage.
• Design and implement backup, recovery and disaster‑recovery strategies.
• Enforce security policies, manage user roles and access controls.
• Troubleshoot database incidents and provide rapid resolution.
• Automate routine maintenance tasks through scripting.
• Collaborate with developers on schema design and query optimisation.
• Document configurations, standards and procedures.
• Participate in compliance audits and ensure adherence to security standards.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field.
• 4–6 years of hands‑on experience as a MongoDB DBA or equivalent NoSQL administrator.
• Strong problem‑solving abilities and capacity to work under pressure.
• Excellent communication skills for cross‑functional collaboration.

Required skills

• MongoDB architecture, sharding and replication.
• Performance tuning and query optimisation.
• Backup, recovery and disaster‑recovery planning.
• Database security, user roles and access control management.
• Scripting languages: Shell, Python, Perl.
• Linux/Unix operating systems.
• Understanding of transaction consistency and compliance requirements.