Description
The following states/districts are excluded from this job ad: AK, CA, CO, CT, DC, HI, LA, MA, MN, MO, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, ND, OR, PR, RI, VT, WA, WY
Future Need - Actively Interviewing
Location: Remote in any United States jurisdiction not excluded from this job advertisement.
Own the data tier of one of VA's most complex cloud platforms. As the MongoDB Engineer & Administrator, you will manage MongoDB Enterprise Advanced instances supporting mission-critical scheduling, telehealth, and digital health applications.
Position Description: The MongoDB Engineer & Administrator manages all aspects of MongoDB Enterprise Advanced across production, staging, and sandbox environments including performance tuning, backup and recovery, encryption, secrets management, and vendor coordination.
Tasks/activities include, but are not limited to:
- Administers all MongoDB Enterprise Advanced instances across production, staging, and sandbox environments
- Manages MongoDB performance including query optimization, index management, and capacity planning
Identifies performance degradation before it impacts platform services - Implements and maintains MongoDB backup policies ensuring 15-minute snapshots retained 7 days, daily snapshots retained 30 days, and monthly snapshots retained 60 days with retrieval times not exceeding 1 minute
- Implements and operates MongoDB secrets management through HashiCorp Vault and AWS Secrets Manager
- Ensures automated rotation for 100% of credentials where supported and manual rotation at least every 90 days
- Ensures all MongoDB configuration is provisioned through approved Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling (e.g., Terraform)
- Prohibits manual production changes except through approved break-glass procedures
- Supports daily Change Control Board (CCB) meetings for MongoDB-related changes
- Ensures all production changes execute within government-approved windows with documented backout plans
- Supports the Scheduling Event Bus by providing MongoDB data tier design and operational support for event-driven workloads
- Coordinates with the Vulnerability Analyst and Security team to conduct and remediate MongoDB vulnerability scans
- Ensures versions remain on approved releases with no end-of-life software in production
- Contributes MongoDB metrics, incident reports, and performance data to the Monthly Maintenance Report
Compensation & Benefits: The annual projected pay range for this position is $81,284 - $116,894 with consideration being given to various factors including but not limited to qualifications, experience, job responsibilities, and geographic location.
Oxley Enterprises, Inc. offers a full array of benefits including:
- Medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage for you and your family.
- Life Insurance, short-term disability and long-term disability paid for by the Company.
- Supplemental coverages including Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital.
- Additional Life insurance coverage for you and your dependents.
- 401k plan with various options to select based on your retirement goals.
Oxley Enterprises®, Inc. is a certified service-disabled veteran-owned (SDVOSB), veteran-owned (VOSB), and woman-owned small business (WOSB) that has 26 years of experience building and delivering quality IT systems and programs. Oxley is ranked in the INC 5000 7 times (2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025). Oxley is a 2019 - 2025 Department of Labor HIRE Vets Medallion Award Winner. Oxley is Virginia Values Veterans certified.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
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Requirements
Minimum/General Experience: 3 years of experience administering MongoDB Enterprise Advanced in production cloud environments
Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree in computer science, information technology, or related field; MongoDB Certified DBA Associate (preferred)
Essential Skills/Qualifications:
- Excellent experience administering MongoDB Enterprise Advanced including replica sets, sharding, performance tuning, index optimization, and capacity planning at enterprise scale
- Excellent knowledge of MongoDB backup and recovery including scheduled snapshots, point-in-time recovery, and restoration validation
- Excellent experience with MongoDB security including encryption at rest and in transit, RBAC, field-level encryption, and integration with HashiCorp Vault and AWS Secrets Manager
- Excellent ability to manage MongoDB in containerized Kubernetes/EKS environments including stateful workload management and persistent volume configuration
- Excellent experience with MongoDB monitoring
- Above average ability to configure alerting for performance degradation, storage thresholds, and replication lag
- Above average experience implementing MongoDB as part of event-driven architectures integrating with Kafka/MSK for scheduling and healthcare data pipelines
- Above average knowledge of vulnerability scanning and remediation for MongoDB
- Experience supporting a federal agency
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
General Physical Requirements needed to perform the essential functions of this job may vary based on the location of the assignment.
- Assignment Location - Remote
- Sedentary Work - Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
- Typing, communicating, repetitive motions.
- Close visual acuity to prepare and analyze data, view computer monitors and read. May need to view presentation screens and other visual aids in a virtual setting.
- Inside environmental conditions with protection from outside elements.
Security: Active Federal Civilian Public Trust clearance
- U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident that has lived in the United States for at least 3 years
Federal Civilian Public Trust Consists of a review of up to but not limited to:
- Covers 10 year period and in some instances lifetime events
- OPM Security Investigations Index (SII)
- DOD Defense Central Investigations Index (DCII)
- National Agency Check (NAC) records
- FBI name check
- FBI fingerprint check
- Credit report check
- Written inquiries to previous employers and references listed on the application for employment
- Potential interviews with the subject, spouse, neighbors, supervisor, coworkers
- Law enforcement check
- Court records check
- Education check - Attendance and Degrees