MongoDB Database Consultant
Based in Ottawa, Canada | Hybrid | Work from home and the Ottawa office
Why Pythian?
At Pythian, we are experts in strategic database and analytics services, driving
digital transformation and operational excellence. Pythian, a multinational
company, was founded in 1997 and started by ensuring the reliability and
performance of mission-critical databases. We quickly earned a reputation for
solving tough data challenges. We were there when the industry moved from
on-premises to cloud environments, and as enterprises sought more from their
data, we expanded our competencies to include advanced analytics.
Today, we empower organizations to embrace transformation and leverage advanced
technologies, including AI, to stay competitive. We deliver innovative solutions
that meet each client’s data goals and have built strong partnerships with
Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and Snowflake. The powerful
combination of our extensive expertise in data and cloud and our ability to keep
on top of the latest bleeding edge technologies make us the perfect partner to
help mid and large-sized businesses transform to stay ahead in today’s rapidly
changing digital economy.
Why you?
Are you an experienced MongoDB DBA? Are you passionate about planning, designing
and implementing new solutions? Do you enjoy evaluating existing solutions and
helping to build automation tooling and processes to improve systems? Working as
a MongoDB Database Consultant at Pythian can hone your skills, helping you grow
in your career with a breadth of knowledge in platforms and technologies that
few professionals can claim.
If this is you, and you wonder what it would be like to work at Pythian, reach
out to us and find out!
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What you will be doing:
- Focus on project work, debugging performance degradations, audits, and health
checks.
- Design and help implement new MongoDB and Cassandra deployments.
- Evaluate existing clusters and provide recommendations on best practices.
- Debug high priority issues on mission critical production environments.
- Engage with the Mongo DB and Cassandra community through user lists, irc,
blog posts, webinars, and open source projects.
- Contribute to rapid brainstorming, designing and developing of prototypes.
- Automate and provide documentation on operational procedures.
- Train and mentor junior team members.
- Provide performance and forecast reports on the health and load of critical
business processes to help ensure the infrastructure has adequate capacity.
- Participate in company, and team meetings.
- Continued education in Pythian’s Operations as a Service supported stack.
- Provide on-call support in your team’s on-call rotational schedule.
What we need from you:
- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical
experience.
- A minimum of 5 years of experience with MongoDB databases is required for
this position.
- Experience with Cassandra database is an asset.
- Experience with NoSQL databases such as Solr, Scylla, CockroachDB is an
asset.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Shell, Java, Go, C#,
C++, Ruby, Python, Ansible), with Shell and Python being preferred.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Experience with web applications, distributed systems and databases.
- Familiarity with multiple orchestration and configuration management systems.
- Understanding of continuous integration and automation practices.
- Knowledge of multiple monitoring, alerting and metric collection systems.
- An understanding of current IT service standards, such as ITIL.
- Exceptional oral and written communication skills.
- A self-motivated and directed approach to working in a demanding, fast-paced
environment.
- Meticulous attention to detail.
- Strong active listening skills.
- Robust analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Highly effective multitasking and organizational skills.
What you get in return:
- Love your career: Competitive total rewards and salary package. Blog
[https://www.pythian.com/blog] during work hours; take a day off and
volunteer for your favorite charity.
- Love your work/life balance: Flexibly work remotely from your home, there’s
no daily travel requirement to an office! All you need is a stable internet
connection.
- Love your coworkers: Collaborate with some of the best and brightest in the
industry!
- Love your development: Hone your skills or learn new ones with our
substantial training allowance; participate in professional development days,
attend training, become certified, whatever you like!
- Love your workspace: We give you all the equipment you need to work from
home including a laptop with your choice of OS, and an annual budget to
personalize your work environment!
- Love yourself: Pythian cares about the health and well-being of our team. You
will have an annual wellness budget to make yourself a priority (use it on
gym memberships, massages, fitness and more). Additionally, you will receive
a generous amount of paid vacation and sick days, as well as a day off to
volunteer for your favorite charity.
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Disclaimer
Pythian is looking to fill this position as soon as possible as this position is
for an active and open position.
The successful applicant will need to fulfill the requirements necessary to
obtain a background check.
Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in any
aspect of the selection process.
