NoSQL Database Platform Engineer

About the role
We are looking for a NoSQL Platform Engineer to own the reliability scalability security and daytoday operations of our enterprise NoSQL database platforms across DEV TEST UAT and PROD.

The role is strongly focused on Azure-native services in particular Azure Cosmos DB with additional exposure to MongoDB and DocumentDB. You will combine hands-on operational support with platform engineering automation and continuous improvement in a regulated enterprise environment.

You will work closely with application teams cloud engineers security and architects to ensure distributed NoSQL platforms remain stable recoverable scalable and cost-efficient.

Key Responsibilities

• Platform Reliability & Operations
  Own and operate enterprise NoSQL platforms including provisioning upgrades monitoring and incident management. Perform root-cause analysis and participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation (710 days/month).
• Azure Cosmos DB & Performance Optimisation
  Design and operate highly available resilient Azure Cosmos DB environments. Optimise performance scalability and cost through partitioning strategy RU/s management indexing multi-region setups and capacity planning. Advise application teams on schema and data-access best practices.
• High Availability Backup & Recovery
  Design and maintain HA and DR solutions. Define automate and regularly test backup restore and recovery procedures.
• Automation & Platform Engineering
  Automate provisioning configuration monitoring backup and reporting using Infrastructure as Code and scripting. Contribute to platform standardisation and cloud adoption initiatives.
• Security & Governance
  Implement secure-by-default designs including RBAC encryption auditing monitoring and compliance controls. Support vulnerability remediation and operational governance requirements.

Required Qualifications

• 3 years administering NoSQL databases in production environments
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure Cosmos DB (partitioning RU/s consistency models multi-region deployments)
• Solid operational experience with MongoDB (replica sets sharding upgrades backup/recovery)
• Understanding of HA/DR incident management and operational support models
• Experience with automation and scripting (Python PowerShell Bash or similar)
• Experience working in Azure cloud environments and with Infrastructure as Code
• Working knowledge of security networking and access control principles
• Strong troubleshooting and documentation skills

Nice to Have

• Exposure to DocumentDB or other NoSQL platforms
• Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps ServiceNow or cloud migration projects
• Azure certifications (e.g. AZ900)

Please note that this is a permanent position and we do not offer freelance/contract arrangement for the role

Hybrid working model with a minimum of 8 days per month on site.

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