Senior MongoDB Database Platform Engineer
About The Position
Allstate is seeking an experienced Senior MongoDB Database Platform Engineer to join its Database Engineering team and build, operate, and modernize the enterprise MongoDB platform. The role supports production and non-production environments across on-premises infrastructure and MongoDB Atlas PaaS, with responsibilities spanning design, implementation, automation, security, performance, high availability, backup and recovery, and operational support. The engineer will develop and operate MongoDB replica sets and sharded clusters; manage installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, migrations, and lifecycle activities; and establish engineering standards, reference architectures, and operational practices. The role also supports disaster recovery, backup and restore, performance optimization, security and compliance, automation, observability, capacity planning, and production incident response. The engineer will collaborate across application, infrastructure, security, SRE, network, and cloud engineering teams, provide technical leadership, and mentor other engineers. The position includes participation in on-call rotations, major incident response, change management, and problem management. Allstate provides a technology setup including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse. Employees eligible to work from home receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement. Those working from home must have a dedicated private workspace and reliable internet with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload.
Requirements
- 10+ years of database administration, database engineering, or data-platform engineering experience.
- 8+ years of hands-on MongoDB administration and engineering experience supporting mission-critical production environments.
- Strong Linux administration experience.
- Deep understanding of MongoDB architecture, storage engine behavior, replication, sharding, configuration, security, maintenance, and performance tuning.
- Hands-on experience with MongoDB replica sets, sharded clusters, high availability, disaster recovery, backup and recovery, point-in-time recovery, and capacity planning.
- Hands-on experience administering or engineering MongoDB Atlas, including cluster deployment, scaling, backup, monitoring, networking, access management, and migrations.
- Strong skills in MongoDB query analysis, indexing, aggregation pipelines, schema and data modeling, and workload optimization.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot complex database, operating system, storage, network, and connectivity issues in production environments.
- Experience planning and executing database upgrades, migrations, patching, platform changes, and production releases.
- Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders and work effectively across organizational boundaries.
- Strong ownership, accountability, customer focus, analytical and troubleshooting skills, and ability to work independently, manage priorities, and drive initiatives to completion.
- Strong collaboration, documentation, and communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- RHEL or a comparable enterprise Linux distribution experience.
- Experience with MongoDB Enterprise Advanced and MongoDB Ops Manager for on-premises lifecycle management, monitoring, backup, and automation.
- Experience designing or operating hybrid MongoDB platforms across on-premises environments and MongoDB Atlas on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience with MongoDB migration and synchronization tools such as mongodump/mongorestore, MongoDB Database Tools, Atlas Live Migration, or MongoDB Relational Migrator.
- Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or native MongoDB and Atlas monitoring.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and delivery tools such as Terraform, GitHub, GitLab, or CI/CD pipelines.
- Hands-on experience using Ansible to automate MongoDB installation, configuration, patching, validation, and repeatable operational tasks.
- Exposure to other database technologies such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, or Neo4j.
- Experience leading technical initiatives, mentoring team members, and influencing enterprise platform standards.
- Experience working in large-scale, highly available, and regulated enterprise environments.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, administer, and support enterprise MongoDB environments across on-premises infrastructure and MongoDB Atlas PaaS.
- Lead MongoDB installation, configuration, patching, version upgrades, migrations, and lifecycle management.
- Design and operate MongoDB replica sets and sharded clusters, including topology, storage, networking, and capacity configurations.
- Define and maintain MongoDB engineering standards, reference architectures, build procedures, operational controls, and best practices.
- Participate in architecture reviews and advise application teams on data modeling, indexing, scalability, resilience, connectivity, and operational readiness.
- Design and support highly available MongoDB solutions, including multi-site or multi-region architectures.
- Implement and maintain disaster-recovery strategies; plan and execute failover, recovery, regional-resiliency, and disaster-recovery tests; and help maintain recovery time and recovery point objectives.
- Design, implement, and operate MongoDB backup and recovery solutions, including snapshots, continuous backup, point-in-time recovery, retention, restores, and recovery validation.
- Conduct restore testing and support disaster-recovery exercises.
- Monitor availability, capacity, health, replication, storage, and performance across on-premises and Atlas environments.
- Analyze and optimize queries, indexes, aggregation pipelines, schemas and data models, connection behavior, and database configurations.
- Troubleshoot production incidents, lead root-cause analysis, and implement preventive actions.
- Drive database reliability, observability, capacity planning, and operational excellence initiatives.
- Implement MongoDB security controls, access-management standards, and least-privilege practices.
- Manage roles and privileges, authentication, authorization, encryption, auditing, key management, and credential-management integrations.
- Configure and support Atlas security capabilities, including private connectivity, network access controls, identity integration, and organizational access governance.
- Support compliance reviews, vulnerability remediation, security assessments, and evidence requests.
- Develop automation for MongoDB provisioning, configuration, deployment, patching, validation, monitoring, and routine operations.
- Use Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, source control, APIs, and CI/CD practices to improve consistency and repeatability.
- Partner with engineering teams to expand safe self-service capabilities and reduce manual operational effort.
- Support mission-critical production and non-production MongoDB environments.
- Participate in on-call rotations, major incident response, change management, and problem management.
- Create and maintain runbooks, troubleshooting guides, standards, architectural documentation, and operational procedures.
- Mentor engineers, review technical solutions, and provide technical leadership for MongoDB platform initiatives.
Benefits
- Technology setup including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse.
- Monthly connectivity reimbursement for employees eligible to work from home.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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