Senior Technical Lead - Java, Spring Boot, MongoDB
India
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Job Description
Senior Technical Lead - Java, Spring Boot, MongoDB
Sholinganallur, Tamil Nadu

Job Summary

The Platform Database Engineer is responsible for designing, deploying, administering, and optimizing MongoDB (Atlas and on-premise) databases within a large-scale, cloud-based enterprise ecosystem. The role combines deep database expertise with SRE principles to ensure performance, reliability, scalability, and automation across critical data platforms.

Key Responsibilities

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES  

  • Architect, implement, and maintain MongoDB Atlas and non-Atlas environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security.
  • Design and enforce resiliency and disaster recovery strategies, including backup, restore, and multi-region failover.
  • Optimize database performance and query execution to support application development teams through all SDLC phases.
  • Develop and manage infrastructure-as-code solutions (Terraform, GitOps) for database provisioning and automation.
  • Implement and refine observability and monitoring solutions using Dynatrace, CloudWatch, and MongoDB native telemetry.
  • Manage access control, auditing, and encryption to meet enterprise security and compliance standards.
  • Collaborate with application, DevOps, and platform teams to drive continuous improvement in performance and operational excellence.
  • Lead incident response for database-related issues, drive root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.
  • Mentor and guide technical teams, contributing to documentation, standards, and design reviews.
  • Other duties as assigned by manager.

Skill Requirements

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • Minimum of 7+ years’ experience as a MongoDB DBA, including 4+ years in MongoDB Atlas administration.
  • Strong experience in AWS ecosystem (EC2, EKS, CloudWatch, IAM, KMS, VPC, Lambda).
  • Proficiency in Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD automation, and containerized workloads (EKS/Kubernetes).
  • Experience with Dynatrace, Prometheus, or equivalent observability platforms.
  • Strong Linux administration and scripting (Python, Bash).
  • Excellent analytical, communication, and documentation skills.
  • Available for on-call rotation and incident response as required.

Other Requirements

CERTIFICATIONS/TRAINING

  • MongoDB Certified DBA (preferred).
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer (preferred).
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