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Own the data tier of one of VA's most complex cloud platforms. As the MongoDB Engineer & Administrator, you will manage MongoDB Enterprise Advanced instances supporting mission-critical scheduling, telehealth, and digital health applications.
Position Description: The MongoDB Engineer & Administrator manages all aspects of MongoDB Enterprise Advanced across production, staging, and sandbox environments including performance tuning, backup and recovery, encryption, secrets management, and vendor coordination.
Minimum/General Experience: 3 years of experience administering MongoDB Enterprise Advanced in production cloud environments
Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree in computer science, information technology, or related field; MongoDB Certified DBA Associate (preferred)
Essential Skills/Qualifications:- Excellent experience administering MongoDB Enterprise Advanced including replica sets, sharding, performance tuning, index optimization, and capacity planning at enterprise scale
- Excellent knowledge of MongoDB backup and recovery including scheduled snapshots, point-in-time recovery, and restoration validation
- Excellent experience with MongoDB security including encryption at rest and in transit, RBAC, field-level encryption, and integration with HashiCorp Vault and AWS Secrets Manager
- Excellent ability to manage MongoDB in containerized Kubernetes/EKS environments including stateful workload management and persistent volume configuration
- Excellent experience with MongoDB monitoring
- Above average ability to configure alerting for performance degradation, storage thresholds, and replication lag
- Above average experience implementing MongoDB as part of event-driven architectures integrating with Kafka/MSK for scheduling and healthcare data pipelines
- Above average knowledge of vulnerability scanning and remediation for MongoDB
- Experience supporting a federal agency
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
General Physical Requirements needed to perform the essential functions of this job may vary based on the location of the assignment.
- Assignment Location - Remote
- Sedentary Work - Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
- Typing, communicating, repetitive motions.
- Close visual acuity to prepare and analyze data, view computer monitors and read. May need to view presentation screens and other visual aids in a virtual setting.
- Inside environmental conditions with protection from outside elements.
Security: Active Federal Civilian Public Trust clearance
- U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident that has lived in the United States for at least 3 years
Federal Civilian Public Trust Consists of a review of up to but not limited to:
- Covers 10 year period and in some instances lifetime events
- OPM Security Investigations Index (SII)
- DOD Defense Central Investigations Index (DCII)
- National Agency Check (NAC) records
- FBI name check
- FBI fingerprint check
- Credit report check
- Written inquiries to previous employers and references listed on the application for employment
- Potential interviews with the subject, spouse, neighbors, supervisor, coworkers
- Law enforcement check
- Court records check
- Education check - Attendance and Degrees
Tasks/activities include, but are not limited to:- Administers all MongoDB Enterprise Advanced instances across production, staging, and sandbox environments
- Manages MongoDB performance including query optimization, index management, and capacity planning
- Identifies performance degradation before it impacts platform services
- Implements and maintains MongoDB backup policies ensuring 15-minute snapshots retained 7 days, daily snapshots retained 30 days, and monthly snapshots retained 60 days with retrieval times not exceeding 1 minute
- Implements and operates MongoDB secrets management through HashiCorp Vault and AWS Secrets Manager
- Ensures automated rotation for 100% of credentials where supported and manual rotation at least every 90 days
- Ensures all MongoDB configuration is provisioned through approved Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling (e.g., Terraform)
- Prohibits manual production changes except through approved break-glass procedures
- Supports daily Change Control Board (CCB) meetings for MongoDB-related changes
- Ensures all production changes execute within government-approved windows with documented backout plans
- Supports the Scheduling Event Bus by providing MongoDB data tier design and operational support for event-driven workloads
- Coordinates with the Vulnerability Analyst and Security team to conduct and remediate MongoDB vulnerability scans
- Ensures versions remain on approved releases with no end-of-life software in production
- Contributes MongoDB metrics, incident reports, and performance data to the Monthly Maintenance Report
Compensation & Benefits: The annual projected pay range for this position is $81,284 - $116,894 with consideration being given to various factors including but not limited to qualifications, experience, job responsibilities, and geographic location.
Oxley Enterprises, Inc. offers a full array of benefits including:
- Medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage for you and your family.
- Life Insurance, short-term disability and long-term disability paid for by the Company.
- Supplemental coverages including Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital.
- Additional Life insurance coverage for you and your dependents.
- 401k plan with various options to select based on your retirement goals.
