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You’ll 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.\nAs a Senior Database Administrator- MongoDB in Pune, you will join a diverse, passionate team, dedicated to powering the world’s payments ecosystem!\nJob Summary\nACI 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.\nThis 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.\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign, implement, monitor, and manage MongoDB environments, including replica sets, sharding, backups, performance, and availability.\nSupport MongoDB Atlas and cloud-hosted MongoDB environments with a strong focus on performance, availability, monitoring, and automation.\nAnalyze and optimize MongoDB performance across query execution, indexing, memory usage, I/O, schema design, and data modeling.\nPartner with engineering teams to improve application-database interaction patterns and ensure scalable, high-performing database solutions.\nApply SRE principles to database operations, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems.\nBuild and improve observability dashboards, monitoring, alerting, and operational insights using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, or similar platforms.\nAutomate database operational tasks such as monitoring, patching, provisioning, configuration management, and recurring maintenance activities.\nSupport secure, compliant, reliable, and cost-effective cloud database operations across AWS, Azure, GCP, or MongoDB Atlas environments.\nCollaborate with DevOps, Engineering, Database, and Security teams to ensure reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence.\nMentor junior DBAs and contribute to knowledge sharing, standards, documentation, and continuous improvement in database reliability and performance.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.\n5+ years of experience as a Database Administrator, Database Engineer, or similar role.\nAt least 3 years of hands-on experience with MongoDB administration, performance tuning, and scaling.\nStrong understanding of MongoDB internals, indexing, query optimization, replication, sharding, backups, and high availability.\nExperience working with MongoDB Atlas or cloud-hosted MongoDB environments.\nExperience applying SRE practices to database operations, including monitoring, incident response, reliability improvement, and automation.\nExperience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.\nStrong troubleshooting, analytical, communication, and documentation skills.\nTechnical Expertise\nExpert-level experience with MongoDB administration, MongoDB Atlas, replica sets, sharding, indexing, backups, and performance tuning.\nStrong knowledge of MongoDB performance engineering, query optimization, schema design, data modeling, capacity planning, and benchmarking.\nExperience with cloud-native database operations across AWS, Azure, GCP, and MongoDB Atlas.\nExperience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar automation frameworks.\nStrong understanding of SRE practices, SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems.\nExperience with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, or similar platforms.\nProficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.\nKnowledge of CI/CD pipelines, centralized logging, configuration management, and automation for database operations.\nUnderstanding of security, compliance, high availability, disaster recovery, and operational reliability for enterprise database platforms.\nIdeal Candidate\nThe 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. 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