Azure Cosmos DBA

Bridgenext is a digital consulting services leader that helps clients innovate with intention and realize their digital aspirations by creating digital products, experiences, and solutions around what real people need. Our global consulting and delivery teams facilitate highly strategic digital initiatives through digital product engineering, automation, data engineering, and infrastructure modernization services, while elevating brands through digital experience, creative content, and customer data analytics services.

Don't just work, thrive. At Bridgenext, you have an opportunity to make a real difference - driving tangible business value for clients, while simultaneously propelling your own career growth. Our flexible and inclusive work culture provides you with the autonomy, resources, and opportunities to succeed. 

We are looking for a talented and experienced Azure Cosmos DBA Engineer to join our team in Latin America. You will be expected to work autonomously and contribute to several high-impact projects including architecting the data pipeline infrastructure to support our customer's data needs.

You will be working in CST business hours. You will be part of team which will have on-call duties outside CST business hours as well and you would need to respond to a high-priority incident pager.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Provide Cosmos thought leadership in terms of governance and best practices for Cosmos DB design, security, and usage across the enterprise application with the ability to communicate and influence throughout the enterprise
• Provide clear direction on when to use which Cosmos API
• Mentor the data engineering team on maintenance/administration/security
• Mentor and lead development and application engineering teams on Cosmos optimization and tuning
• Guide and work on architecture and partitioning decisions to balance scalability and consistency
• Optimize performance and cost through indexing, query tuning, and integrate Cosmos DB into CI/CD pipelines with the help of DevOps teams
• Optimize cloud costs versus performance with Cosmos DB
• Automate monitoring, alerting, and backups for availability, performance, and compliance
• Evaluate new Cosmos DB features and recommend adoption strategies

Workplace: Remote Latin America

Must Have Skills:

• 5 years of hands-on experience with Cosmos DB/Mongo DB/NoSQL
• Expert knowledge of Azure Cosmos DB architecture and administration
• Extensive experience designing and optimizing Cosmos DB resource models, containers, databases, and collections
• Ability to properly size Cosmos DB by looking at access patterns and data growth to optimize performance and cost
• Must be able to work with application engineering to tune query performance
• Must be able to identify bottlenecks and optimize performance
• Ability to script solutions for automation and testing

Preferred Skills:

• Knowledge of Azure Data Factory a plus
• Strong knowledge of Azure SQL Database/Azure Postgres a plus
• Experience working on any other Database technologies hosted on Cloud is plus

Professional Skills:

• Solid written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
• Strong team and individual player
• Maintains composure during all types of situations and is collaborative by nature
• High standards of professionalism, consistently producing high quality results
• Self-sufficient, independent requiring very little supervision or intervention
• Demonstrate flexibility and openness to bring creative solutions to address issues
   

Bridgenext is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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