Allstate

Senior MongoDB Database Platform Engineer

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1 day ago
Pune, India or Bengaluru, IndiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, deploy, administer, patch, upgrade, migrate, and support enterprise MongoDB environments across on-premises infrastructure and MongoDB Atlas.
  • Operate MongoDB replica sets and sharded clusters, including topology, storage, networking, capacity, high availability, and multi-region resilience.
  • Design and maintain backup, point-in-time recovery, failover, disaster-recovery, and restore-validation processes.
  • Monitor and optimize database availability, replication, queries, indexes, aggregation pipelines, schemas, data models, and workloads.
  • Implement MongoDB authentication, authorization, encryption, auditing, access management, private connectivity, and least-privilege controls.
  • Develop automation for MongoDB provisioning, configuration, deployment, patching, monitoring, validation, and routine operations.
  • Use Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, APIs, source control, and delivery practices to improve operational consistency.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, major incident response, root-cause analysis, change management, and problem management.
  • Create operational documentation and runbooks, review technical solutions, mentor engineers, and provide technical leadership for MongoDB platform initiatives.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of database administration, database engineering, or data-platform engineering experience.
  • 8+ years of hands-on MongoDB administration and engineering experience in mission-critical production environments.
  • Strong Linux administration experience; RHEL or a comparable enterprise Linux distribution is preferred.
  • Deep knowledge of MongoDB architecture, storage engines, replication, sharding, configuration, security, maintenance, and performance tuning.
  • Hands-on experience with MongoDB Atlas cluster deployment, scaling, backup, monitoring, networking, access management, and migration.
  • Experience with database upgrades, migrations, patching, platform changes, production releases, and troubleshooting database, operating system, storage, network, and connectivity issues.
  • Preferred experience with MongoDB Enterprise Advanced, MongoDB Ops Manager, hybrid cloud platforms, MongoDB migration tools, observability platforms, Terraform, GitHub, GitLab, CI/CD pipelines, and Ansible.
  • Preferred exposure to PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, or Neo4j.
  • Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders, lead technical initiatives, mentor team members, and influence enterprise platform standards.

Benefits

  • The selected candidate will work an overnight US shift, approximately 10:00 PM to 7:00 AM CST.
  • The role supports mission-critical enterprise database platforms in a large-scale, highly available, and regulated environment.

Tech Stack

AnsibleAWSAzureDatadogGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaLinuxMicrosoft SQL ServerMongoDBMySQLNeo4jPostgreSQLPrometheusSplunkTerraform

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About Allstate

10,000+ employees

Allstate is a major U.S. personal-lines insurer that sells auto, homeowners, renters, and life policies to consumers through agents and direct online channels. It earns premiums and service fees across insurance and protection products, including telematics-based programs and device/identity protection. Founded in 1931 and headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois, Allstate is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker ALL.

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