MongoDB Engineer & Administrator (Remote)

Oxley Enterprises • Stafford, VA

5d • Remote

About The Position

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. This role is responsible for the data tier of one of VA's most complex cloud platforms, managing MongoDB Enterprise Advanced instances that support mission-critical scheduling, telehealth, and digital health applications.

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