Job Description
Job Title: Azure Cosmos DB Architect
Location: Phoenix, AZ / Dallas, TX / Columbus, OH – Onsite
Tax Term (W2, C2C): W2 / C2C
Job Type (Permanent/Contract): Contract
Duration: Long Term
Pay Range: DOE
Description:
We are seeking an experienced Azure Cosmos DB Architect to design, optimize, and support highly scalable Azure Cosmos DB solutions for high-volume enterprise applications. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Cosmos DB, Azure cloud architecture, distributed systems, and related Azure services.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Design and optimize Azure Cosmos DB solutions for high-volume workloads.
- Define data modeling, partitioning, indexing, and data lifecycle strategies.
- Optimize RU consumption, throughput, latency, and database performance.
- Support deployments, schema changes, capacity planning, and production incidents.
- Design high availability, disaster recovery, and multi-region solutions.
- Troubleshoot performance and production issues.
- Integrate Cosmos DB with Azure Functions, App Services, AKS, Event Hubs, Service Bus, and Application Insights.
- Develop operational runbooks, documentation, and engineering standards.
- Recommend scalability and cost optimization improvements.
Required Skills:
- 5+ years of hands-on Azure Cosmos DB experience.
- Strong Cosmos DB data modeling, partitioning, indexing, and query optimization.
- Experience with RU/s optimization and performance tuning.
- Experience with Change Feed, multi-region deployments, and global distribution.
- Strong knowledge of high availability and disaster recovery.
- Experience with Azure cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience with Azure Functions, App Services, AKS, Event Hubs, Service Bus, and Application Insights.
- Strong troubleshooting and communication skills.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of relevant Azure Cosmos DB experience.
- Experience supporting high-volume, always-on enterprise applications.
- Strong documentation and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to work onsite in Phoenix, Dallas, or Columbus.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Phoenix, AZ |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $55–$60 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Website | https://www.apolisrises.com/ |
Benefits
Paid Sick Days, Employee Referral Program, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans
About Company
Since 1996, RJT has provided successful SAP, Oracle, and IT consulting solutions and staffing services to clients around the world. The new Apolis brings you the same personalized service fortified with a greater array of IT solutions, global expertise, and cost-management strategies.
We are a global IT consultancy that seamlessly integrates experts and leading-edge solutions into your organization so you can focus on what really matters.
Skills
- Architectural Designunmatched
- Capacity Managementunmatched
- Cloud Architectureunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Cost Controlunmatched
- Data Modelingunmatched
- Data Partitioningunmatched
- Database Architectureunmatched
- Database Designunmatched
- Database Optimizationunmatched
- Database Technologyunmatched
- Disaster Recoveryunmatched
- Distributed Computingunmatched
- Documentation Standardsunmatched
- Enterprise Applicationsunmatched
- High Availabilityunmatched
- Hubsunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Microsoft Windows Azureunmatched
- Operations Planningunmatched
- Performance Tuning/Optimizationunmatched
- Query Optimizationunmatched
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