MongoDB Engineer & Administrator (Remote)

Oxley Enterprises®, Inc.Stafford, VA
$81,284 - $116,894Remote

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.
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