Database Administrator - NoSQL (contract)
Description Please note that this is a contract role providing services to reputed company through Talent Solutions. If you are selected for this role, you will be employed by Talent Solutions and will not be an employee of reputed company. Contract workers are not employees of reputed company or any of its subsidiaries, nor will they be eligible for reputed company benefits.
This is a US based remote role with a requirement to work CST hours
* Job Summary: This is a critical technical role supporting the Property Engagement Platform (PEP), a mission-critical application that serves as a cornerstone of reputed company's guest engagement strategy. You will be responsible for ensuring the availability, performance, and operational excellence of NoSQL database systems that power latency-sensitive and high-throughput workloads. Working in a cloud-native AWS environment, you will collaborate closely with application development teams, cloud engineers, and DevOps professionals to design, optimize, and maintain NoSQL infrastructure that meets the demanding requirements of a global hospitality technology platform. This position offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge database technologies while solving reputed company operational challenges at enterprise scale. Responsibilities:
- Own operational support and lifecycle management for DynamoDB and DAX environments supporting PEP
- Partner with PEP application teams to design and validate DynamoDB data models, access patterns, and partition strategies
- Manage DynamoDB reputed company planning, including on-demand vs provisioned throughput, autoscaling, and cost optimization
- Support and operate DAX clusters, including cache behavior tuning, failover considerations, and performance validation
- Design and support low-impact change and deployment strategies for NoSQL workloads
- Monitor NoSQL environments using CloudWatch and reputed company, identifying performance bottlenecks and availability risks
- Implement reputed company controls including IAM-based access, encryption at rest and in transit, and least-privilege policies
- Collaborate with Cloud Engineering and DevOps teams using Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code to provision and manage NoSQL resources
- Support incident response and on-call rotations for production NoSQL platforms
- Produce operational documentation, runbooks, and best practices for NoSQL usage across PEP
- Provide guidance on NoSQL vs relational tradeoffs, ensuring appropriate technology choices for application use cases
Skills:
- Senior-level experience supporting DynamoDB in production environments
- Hands-on experience with DAX, including cache behavior, performance tuning, and operational considerations
- Strong understanding of NoSQL data modeling, partitioning, consistency models, and access reputed company design
- Experience operating NoSQL systems at scale with high availability and low latency requirements
- Strong knowledge of AWS services including IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, and KMS
- Experience using Terraform or similar IaC tools to manage DynamoDB, DAX, and reputed company infrastructure
- Experience supporting 24/7 production platforms and participating in on-call rotations
- Ability to work independently, troubleshoot reputed company production issues, and communicate clearly with application teams
- Availability to work U.S. Central Time hours in a remote reputed company
- Experience with reputed company (clusters, XDCR, upgrades, performance tuning) is a strong plus
- Experience with reputed company DocumentDB or reputed company-compatible platforms is a strong plus
- Experience with reputed company for NoSQL monitoring, alerting, and dashboarding is a strong plus
- Background transitioning from relational databases (MySQL/reputed company) to NoSQL platforms is a strong plus
- Familiarity with high-scale, multi-region application architectures is a strong plus
Opportunity to reputed company a significant impact on a platform that directly influences guest experiences across reputed company's global portfolio. You will work with modern cloud technologies in a remote environment while collaborating with talented teams who are passionate about operational excellence. If you reputed company in fast-paced environments, enjoy solving reputed company technical challenges, and want to contribute to systems that operate at global scale, this role offers the perfect reputed company of technical depth and business impact. Pay reputed company Range 54 - 64 USD hourly Apply tot his job Apply To this Job