Senior NoSQL Technical Specialist

• Experience with multi-model NoSQL databases, MongoDB, DocumentDB, CosmosDB  Wide-column (Cassandra) Graph (Neo4j, Neptune)
• Time-series (InfluxDB, ScyllaDB, Timestream), Key-Value (Redis,Valkey, DynamoDB), Search (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch), AI and Vector Database support etc.
• In-depth understanding of NoSQL Internals
• Proven experience in distributed data management systems, cloud-native architectures including database modernization with AWS, Azure and GCP
• Knowledge of configuration management systems (e.g. Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet)
• Knowledge and experience with Percona platforms, PMB and Percona Toolkit
• We are looking for a sharp, disciplined, highly proficient and self-motivated database specialist with expertise in multiple NoSQL technologies including Design/Administration and passion for building cloud solutions with Amazon Web Services, Azure, and/or GCP
• Self-oriented professionals with a high sense of ownership and accountability who can design scalable, resilient, and flexible architectures to accelerate the adoption of new services
• Analyze, design, and build cloud-based solutions to address our clients' needs for IaaS, PaaS, and DBaaS solutions
• Help the development of engaging, modern data solutions, strategies, migrations, and applications

Responsibilities:

• Delivery of distributed NoSQL solutions, including multi-model architectures combining document, graph, and time-series capabilities
• Partner with our development team on database best practices and database design
• Partner with engineering teams to provide optimal data designs, query construction
• Design and Implement Data partitioning, sharding, and global distribution strategies 
• Support Event-driven and streaming integrations
• Responsible for database configuration, implementation, and maintenance of database systems to ensure high performance with excellent reliability
• Partner with business teams in gathering business requirements and developing database solutions
• Design, Develop and implement large relational database systems and provide architecture guidance
• Gather technical requirements, assess client capabilities, and analyze findings to provide appropriate data solution recommendations and adoption strategy
• Define cloud, on-prem, and hybrid data architectures, including crafting multi-phased implementation roadmaps for High Availability, Scalability and Disaster Recovery solutions
• Strong knowledge of Cloud native solutions and expertise in AWS, Azure and/or GCP cloud solutions, reference architectures in related technologies
• Design strategies for database systems as well as set standards for operations, programming, and security
• Perform Security assessment for potential risk gaps
• Provide Technical leadership, work with the implementation team and operational support team as the subject matter expert to provide directions
• Automate the ingestion, delivery, processing, quality of structured and unstructured data models
• You will be responsible for monitoring day to day NoSQL database systems in terms of operations and management
• Perform database capacity planning and maintenance, monitoring and performance tuning
• Diagnose any database issues and employ measures to prevent recurrence
• Work with engineering and operations team in building tooling to drive scalability, reliability, and performance
• Research and develop new technologies and approaches for building highly available data persistence systems
• Continuously improve the reliability and performance of existing open-source database platforms in hybrid data solutions
• Adopt self-service tools to make it easier to use data store services to help the technical development team (or developer) succeed
• Provide appropriate support to users of database systems and database code deployments
• Provide database consulting to collaborating engineering teams (verifying database changes, database architecture solution, benchmark testing, collaborating on proof of concept, performance tuning, troubleshooting, etc.)
• Troubleshoot database issues in production and investigate external services or other levels of the architecture to analyze root causes
• Strategize on building proactive monitoring and alerting to pre-empt outages
• Participate in the OnCall rotations
• Skills/Abilities and Knowledge:
• Experience with multi-model NoSQL databases, like Document, Wide-column, Graph, Time-series, Search (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch), etc.
• In-depth understanding of NoSQL Internals and data management systems structure principles
• Knowledge building and maintaining largescale mission-critical production database systems
• Proven experience in cloud-native architectures and database modernization 
• Knowledge analyzing issues from the application tier to database
• Experience working directly with cross-functional teams, resolving data or/and database related issues
• Knowledge of configuration management systems (e.g. Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet)
• Knowledge and experience with Percona platforms, PMB and Percona Toolkit
• Systems engineering experience, including Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking and troubleshooting
• Expert level knowledge and experience with Cloud database technologies 
• Expert level knowledge and experience in performance monitoring and cost optimization methods
• Experience in tuning database server configurations, queries, and indexing strategies
• Expert level knowledge and experience with Virtualization, Networking, and Linux
• Experience with strategic architecture and roadmap development
• Professional Level Certified Specialist or Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer (or equivalent)
• Strong knowledge of DevOps technologies and experience with CI/CD practices
• Strong leadership, communication, persuasion, and teamwork skills
• Experience with management of distributed databases in multi-cloud environment is a strong plus
• Strong troubleshooting skills with the ability to identify issues before they become problems
• Possess working knowledge of agile development methodologies including DevOps concepts
• Proficient in a relevant programming language for cloud platforms (e.g. Python, Shell, Go, Javascript, etc)
• Preferably a degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology or related fields
• Deep understanding of NoSQL engines internals would be good
• Proficiency with Linux system administration
• Extensive experience with installation, management, upgrades, backup and restore of large key/value, OLTP/OLAP database system
• Experience benchmarking, clustering, and tuning the databases for performance, reliability and scalability