Senior MongoDB Database Administrator - 85140

Position Title : MongoDB Engineering Standards Specialist

Duration : Contract until Oct 31, (possible extension)

Location : Downtown Toronto or Scarborough (2-3 days onsite)

Responsibilities :

MongoDB Engineering Standards

• Design replica set and sharded cluster topologies tailored to workload (R / W patterns, data growth, latency, multi-AZ / region).
• Schema and index design aligned with document modeling patterns (subdocuments, bucketization, extended reference, outlier pattern).
• Capacity planning (IOPS / CPU / RAM / Storage), performance tuning (indexes, query plans, connection pools, WT cache).
• Backup / restore strategy design
• Security hardening : RBAC, client certs / TLS, encryption-at-rest (KMIP / KMS), auditing, least-privilege, IP allowlists / NSGs, CIS benchmarks.
• Observability : metrics, logs, and tracing integrations (MongoDB exporters / agents).
• Release management & lifecycle : rolling upgrades, feature compatibility versions (FCV), patching cadence, maintenance windows.

Ansible Automation (IaC for Databases)

Collaboration & Governance

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