Senior MongoDB Database Platform Engineer

Allstate•McCullom Lake, IL

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 covers design, implementation, automation, security, performance, high availability, backup and recovery, and operational support for MongoDB environments across on-premises infrastructure and MongoDB Atlas PaaS. The engineer will support production and non-production environments, lead database lifecycle activities, and partner with application, infrastructure, security, SRE, network, and cloud engineering teams. The position works the overnight shift; the posting gives 10:00 PM to 7:00 AM CST as an example. The role includes on-call rotations, major incident response, change and problem management, technical documentation, and mentoring. Allstate provides a technology setup including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse. Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement. Remote work requires a dedicated private workspace and reliable internet with at least 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 migration activities.
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.
Experience working in large-scale, highly available, and regulated enterprise environments.

Nice To Haves

RHEL or a comparable enterprise Linux distribution experience.
Experience with MongoDB Enterprise Advanced and MongoDB Ops Manager for on-premises database 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 capabilities.
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 PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, or Neo4j.
Experience leading technical initiatives, mentoring team members, and influencing enterprise platform standards.

Responsibilities

Design, build, deploy, administer, and support production and non-production MongoDB environments on-premises and in MongoDB Atlas.
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 and implement disaster-recovery strategies for on-premises and Atlas deployments.
Plan and execute failover, recovery, regional resiliency, disaster-recovery tests, and recovery validation; work with stakeholders on recovery time and recovery point objectives.
Design, implement, and operate backup and recovery solutions, including snapshots, continuous backup, point-in-time recovery, retention, restore, and restore testing.
Monitor availability, capacity, health, replication, storage, and performance across MongoDB environments.
Analyze and optimize queries, indexes, aggregation pipelines, schemas and data models, connection behavior, and database configurations.
Troubleshoot complex production incidents, lead root-cause analysis, and implement preventive actions.
Drive database reliability, observability, capacity planning, and operational excellence initiatives.
Implement security controls and least-privilege practices; manage roles, authentication, authorization, encryption, auditing, keys, and credential-management integrations.
Configure and support Atlas private connectivity, network access controls, identity integration, and organizational access governance.
Support compliance reviews, vulnerability remediation, security assessments, and evidence requests.
Develop automation for 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.
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

Comprehensive technology setup including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse.
Monthly connectivity reimbursement for employees eligible to work from home.

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