Role Overview:We are seeking an experienced Azure Cosmos DB Developer with deep expertise in designing, implementing, and supporting large-scale, mission-critical applications on Azure Cosmos DB. The ideal candidate will build highly available, high-throughput, always-on solutions, balancing architecture responsibilities with day-to-day operational support and performance optimization. This role requires a Cosmos DB subject matter expert who can provide strategic architectural guidance and hands-on support for production environments, ensuring scalable, resilient solutions and optimizing performance, reliability, and operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities:- Design, implement, and optimize Azure Cosmos DB solutions for high-volume transactional workloads.
- Define and implement data modeling strategies, partition key design, indexing policies, and data lifecycle management.
- Architect highly available, resilient, and scalable solutions leveraging Cosmos DB best practices.
- Monitor and optimize RU consumption, throughput, latency, and overall database performance.
- Troubleshoot production issues, investigate performance bottlenecks, and implement corrective actions.
- Support day-to-day operational activities including deployments, schema evolution, capacity planning, and incident resolution.
- Partner with application, infrastructure, and architecture teams to ensure optimal integration with Azure services.
- Establish disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity strategies.
- Create operational runbooks, documentation, and engineering standards.
- Provide recommendations on cost optimization, scalability, and long-term platform improvements.
Required Skills:- Strong experience with Cosmos DB data modeling and partitioning strategies.
- Expertise in query optimization and performance tuning.
- Proficiency in throughput management (RU/s optimization).
- Experience with indexing policies and change feed processing.
- Knowledge of multi-region deployment and global distribution.
- Understanding of high availability and disaster recovery patterns.
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools.
- Experience supporting high-volume, always-on enterprise applications.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.
- Experience with Azure services such as Functions, App Services, AKS, Event Hubs, Service Bus, and Application Insights.
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.
Qualifications:- 7+ years of software engineering and database development experience.
- 3+ years of hands-on Azure Cosmos DB experience in production environments.
Preferred Skills:- Experience in financial services or regulated industries.
- Knowledge of microservices architecture and event-driven systems.
- Experience with .NET and/or Java-based applications.
- Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience establishing governance, operational standards, and performance best practices.
