Automation Engineer
barclays
Job Description
To be a successful Mongo Site Reliability Engineer Lead, you should have experience with:
- 10+ years of proven experience as a Principal Level Database Administrator, with a focus on MongoDB and similar database technologies such as Oracle, MS-SQL or DB2.
- Proven track record of implementing and leading site reliability engineer practices across large organizations or complex teams.
- Expert-level knowledge of telemetry, monitoring, and platform observability tooling (e.g., ESAAS, Grafana, Prometheus,) with experience in customizing and scaling these solutions.
- Leadership role in implementing modern DevOps and site reliability engineer practices in enterprise environments.
- Proven expertise in SQL query optimization and database performance tuning at scale.
- Experience with DevOps automation tools such as Code versioning (git), JIRA, Ansible, Containers and Kubernetes (OpenShift), database CI/CD tools and their implementation.
- Experience in implementing MongoDB Container patterns on Kubernetes with the help of a MongoDB operator or a Helm charts.
- Recognized as a MongoDB subject matter expert, serving as the highest level of technical escalation for complex database issues.
- Proven experience in designing and executing database migration strategies at enterprise-scale.
- Exceptional collaboration skills with executives and cross-functional teams.
- Extensive experience working with large, distributed, high-performance, high-availability databases with 24/7 uptime.
- Excellent spoken and written English communication skills.
Additional relevant skills given below are highly valued:
- Working experience in a financial environment
- Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Experience of working on Data migration tools and software.
- Expert in system configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible for database server configurations.
- Expert expertise with scripting languages (e.g. PowerShell, Python, Bash) for automation/migration tasks.
- AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification is a plus.