MongoDB Engineer & Administrator (Remote)

Oxley Enterprises®, Inc. • Stafford, VA

6d • $81,284 - $116,894 • Remote

About The Position

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. 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.

Requirements

• 3 years of experience administering MongoDB Enterprise Advanced in production cloud environments
• 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
• Active Federal Civilian Public Trust clearance
• U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident that has lived in the United States for at least 3 years

Nice To Haves

• MongoDB Certified DBA Associate

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior