Senior Database Administrator- MongoDB

Powering the worlds payments ecosystem

ACI powers the payments ecosystem globally and you power ACI. Youll innovate collaborate and grow in an energetic technology culture with decades of proven success. ACIers in all roles and levels are truly your colleagues and many are your friends. Our size and reach allow you to see the global impact of your work. You are visible your talents are valued and you are empowered to shape the future of payments.

As a Senior Database Administrator- MongoDB in Pune you will join a diverse passionate team dedicated to powering the worlds payments ecosystem!

Job Summary

ACI Worldwide is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Database Administrator with strong expertise in MongoDB MongoDB Atlas performance engineering automation cloud-native database operations and Site Reliability Engineering practices. This role is ideal for a hands-on database professional who can support highly available scalable and reliable MongoDB environments while improving performance observability automation and operational efficiency.

This role will focus heavily on MongoDB performance availability monitoring automation and reliability in a managed service environment where traditional database activities such as backups recovery storage and infrastructure scaling may be handled through the managed platform. The successful candidate will work closely with engineering DevOps security and database teams to support the Kinetic platform and enterprise database operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Design implement monitor and manage MongoDB environments including replica sets sharding backups performance and availability.
• Support MongoDB Atlas and cloud-hosted MongoDB environments with a strong focus on performance availability monitoring and automation.
• Analyze and optimize MongoDB performance across query execution indexing memory usage I/O schema design and data modeling.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve application-database interaction patterns and ensure scalable high-performing database solutions.
• Apply SRE principles to database operations including SLIs SLOs error budgets incident response root cause analysis and postmortems.
• Build and improve observability dashboards monitoring alerting and operational insights using tools such as Prometheus Grafana Datadog ELK or similar platforms.
• Automate database operational tasks such as monitoring patching provisioning configuration management and recurring maintenance activities.
• Support secure compliant reliable and cost-effective cloud database operations across AWS Azure GCP or MongoDB Atlas environments.
• Collaborate with DevOps Engineering Database and Security teams to ensure reliability scalability security and operational excellence.
• Mentor junior DBAs and contribute to knowledge sharing standards documentation and continuous improvement in database reliability and performance.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Technology or related field.
• 5 years of experience as a Database Administrator Database Engineer or similar role.
• At least 3 years of hands-on experience with MongoDB administration performance tuning and scaling.
• Strong understanding of MongoDB internals indexing query optimization replication sharding backups and high availability.
• Experience working with MongoDB Atlas or cloud-hosted MongoDB environments.
• Experience applying SRE practices to database operations including monitoring incident response reliability improvement and automation.
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS Azure or GCP.
• Strong troubleshooting analytical communication and documentation skills.

Technical Expertise

• Expert-level experience with MongoDB administration MongoDB Atlas replica sets sharding indexing backups and performance tuning.
• Strong knowledge of MongoDB performance engineering query optimization schema design data modeling capacity planning and benchmarking.
• Experience with cloud-native database operations across AWS Azure GCP and MongoDB Atlas.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform CloudFormation or similar automation frameworks.
• Strong understanding of SRE practices SLIs SLOs error budgets incident response root cause analysis and postmortems.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus Grafana Datadog ELK or similar platforms.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python Bash or similar scripting languages.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines centralized logging configuration management and automation for database operations.
• Understanding of security compliance high availability disaster recovery and operational reliability for enterprise database platforms.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in MongoDB MongoDB Atlas performance tuning automation cloud-native database operations and SRE practices with the ability to support scalable reliable and highly available enterprise database platforms. The successful candidate will be performance-driven automation-focused and comfortable working in a managed service database environment where monitoring reliability and continuous improvement are critical.

Core Capabilities

We seek colleagues who embody our core capabilities these shape our culture and enable us to make a meaningful impact together:

• Ensure Accountability: holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Drives Results: consistently achieving results even under tough circumstances.
• Customer Focus: building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Cultivate Innovation: creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful.
• Collaborates: building partnerships and working collaboratively with others.
• Courage: stepping up to address difficult issues saying what needs to be said.

In return for your expertise we offer opportunities for growth career development and a competitive compensation and benefits packageall within an innovative and collaborative work environment.

Are you ready to help us transform the payments ecosystem To learn more about ACI Worldwide visit our web site at

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