Senior MongoDB Database Engineer

Job Description

Be Part Of A High-Performing Team

Join a global financial services organization supporting a specialized capital markets technology environment where reliability, security, and data integrity are critical. This team is focused on strengthening enterprise database platforms through modernization, operational resilience, and security governance. The role will contribute to key MongoDB initiatives spanning platform upgrades, migrations, backup and recovery, automation, and security hardening.

What's In Store For You

• Engagement: W2 only (no C2C/1099)
• Hybrid opportunity based in New York City.
• Work on enterprise-scale MongoDB infrastructure supporting critical financial systems.
• Contribute directly to MongoDB modernization, migration, operational improvement, and security initiatives.
• Gain exposure to highly regulated technology environments where availability, governance, and platform resiliency are essential.

How You Will Make An Impact

• Administer and support self-hosted MongoDB Enterprise clusters across production and non-production environments.
• Manage and maintain MongoDB Ops Manager for deployment automation, monitoring, alerting, and operational administration.
• Lead migration efforts from legacy MongoDB Community Edition environments to MongoDB Enterprise.
• Support MongoDB upgrades and modernization initiatives while minimizing disruption to business-critical applications.
• Design and maintain high-availability, backup, disaster recovery, and database resiliency capabilities.
• Diagnose database performance issues and optimize configuration, indexing, workloads, and overall platform performance.
• Strengthen MongoDB security through access controls, configuration hardening, auditing, encryption, and governance.
• Implement controls aligned with recognized security standards, including CIS benchmark guidance.
• Develop repeatable automation and operational processes that improve database reliability and administration efficiency.
• Partner with application, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and engineering teams to resolve database issues and support platform initiatives.

Do You Bring Proven Success in Enterprise MongoDB Engineering?

• 5–7+ years of relevant database engineering, administration, or infrastructure experience.
• Strong hands-on expertise administering MongoDB Enterprise in self-hosted enterprise environments.
• Practical experience with MongoDB Ops Manager, including monitoring, deployment management, automation, and backup administration.
• Experience migrating MongoDB environments, preferably from Community Edition to Enterprise.
• Strong understanding of MongoDB architecture, replication, replica sets, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Experience with MongoDB upgrades, backup/recovery, performance troubleshooting, and capacity management.
• Knowledge of database security practices including authentication, authorization, encryption, auditing, and configuration hardening.
• Experience applying security or compliance standards such as CIS benchmarks within enterprise database environments.
• Ability to automate recurring MongoDB administration or operational activities through scripting and tooling.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience supporting databases in regulated financial-services or similarly controlled enterprise environments is highly desirable.