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Senior Mongo DBA (NJ, TX, or MA)

Company:
Eliassen Group
Location:
Jersey City, NJ
Posted:
June 23, 2025
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Description:

Hybrid role: 2 weeks a month onsite in Westlake, TX, Jersey City, NJ, Boston, MA. Our industry leading financial services client is seeking a MongoDB Database Administrator.

We can facilitate w2 consultants for this role. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $70-80/ hr. W2. This is the target rate range, if you are looking for more we can discuss.

Responsibilities

As Senior Mongo Database Administrator, you will bring your technology expertise, design, and administration skills to create unique state-of-the-art database systems.

You have a passion for technology tempered by a level-headed approach to problem solving and broad experience in diverse technologies.

You will bring a hunger for problem solving and desire to understand and play with newer technologies and business ideas.

Designing, configure and monitor very large-scale database system including Relational databases, NoSQL and in memory databases.

Working in tandem with database administrators and data engineers across the organization.

Experience Requirements

10 + years of overall DBA experience.

5+ years MongoDB DBA experience.

Experience in Cockroach is preferable.

Strong knowledge and experience in installing, configuring, and upgrading MongoDB databases, as well as general administration.

Experience in installing, configuring, and upgrading Ops manager.

Schema design, performance tuning, query optimization, backup solutions (Physical and Logical) Replica set (elections, read/write concerns, arbiters) etc.

Managing MongoDB Oplog and journals.

Design indexing strategies and Sharding (choosing a good shard key, balancer, moving chunks, zoning shard with pre-split chunks, etc.).

Debugging skills and the ability to troubleshoot methodically, identifying, and applying fixes for known errors, and when necessary, capacity to think outside of the box to resolve complex issues.

Scripting/automation tooling (bash/python and Ansible) experience is a must.

Experienced in CI/CD, DevOps using tools like Udeploy, JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, Git.

Must have worked on trending cloud solutions (AWS/Azure /GCP) – AWS preferred.

Experience in AWS EC2, CFT, Route53, RDS.

Experience in Datadog and integration with ServiceNow

Cross-functional training in NoSQL, Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps methodologies are encouraged.

Knowledge in working of REST APIs, ability to read documentation and make calls to read or write data using API is a plus.

Experience in containerization technologies such as ECS and Docker

5 to 10 years of DBA experience

AWS Solutions Architect certification

B.E. or MCA

Experience or subject knowledge in Redis and Elasticsearch.

Clear understanding of query planning

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in both oral and written English

Adept at version control tools GIT Stash, build tools like Maven.

Experience in working with different kinds of hosted infrastructure.

Ability to learn new concepts and technologies in strict timelines

Must be adaptable in a changing environment and be effective in many different business settings.

Experience with cloud data warehousing and data lake solutions is a plus

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.

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