Role : Cloud DBA – NoSQL
Location : Remote
Rate : $70/hr
Indent : PSL213506_1-85-1
Optum is seeking a Cloud DBA – NoSQL to design, operate, and optimize large-scale NoSQL data platforms supporting the CCS 2.0 modernization program. This role is responsible for ensuring the NoSQL data platform meets stringent NFRs for availability, performance, auditability, and disaster recovery, while enabling audit-grade reprocessing and replay.
Key Responsibilities
• Design, manage, and optimize NoSQL database platforms such as MongoDB and/or Azure Cosmos DB in cloud environments.
• Ensure database platforms meet non-functional requirements for availability, scalability, performance, security, audit replay, and disaster recovery.
• Support audit-grade reprocessing, replay, and historical data access patterns required for regulatory, dispute resolution, and operational investigations.
• Define and implement replication, backup, restore, and DR strategies aligned to business continuity objectives.
• Partner with application and data engineering teams on data modeling, indexing, consistency choices, and access patterns for high-volume workloads.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and capacity planning for NoSQL platforms, with appropriate telemetry shipped to enterprise observability and SIEM systems per standards.
• Support production incidents and root-cause analysis, and drive continuous improvement for database reliability and performance.
• Ensure compliance with data governance, retention, and security requirements for protected data.
Required Qualifications
• 8+ years of DBA or data platform experience with strong focus on NoSQL technologies.
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB and/or Azure Cosmos DB (or equivalent managed NoSQL platforms).
• Strong understanding of distributed data architectures, replication models, and performance tuning.
• Experience operating cloud data platforms with HA and DR expectations.
• Comfortable working in DevOps-oriented, product-focused delivery teams and collaborating across engineering disciplines.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience in healthcare or other regulated industries.
• Experience supporting audit/compliance requirements and large-scale historical datasets