Database Administrator

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🌾 Nebraska – Remote

🌾 Nebraska – Remote

💵 $85k - $107.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

📀 Database Administrator

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Nelnet

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1996

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Nelnet is a diversified services company that provides a wide range of solutions including government services, consumer services, technology services, and federal student loan services. The company specializes in customer-centric services, operational optimization, and support, offering digital accessibility, custom development, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and information security. Nelnet also offers business process outsourcing, contact center and back-office processing, loan servicing, and education services. Furthermore, Nelnet is involved in financial management, payment technology, and renewable energy through tax equity funding and solar installations. Nelnet is committed to enhancing education, government service provision, and energy innovation, promoting community engagement and philanthropic efforts through partnerships.

📋 Description

• Support the day-to-day administration and operational health of MongoDB Atlas across production, test, and preview environments • Monitor MongoDB Atlas alerts, performance metrics, cluster health, and resource utilization • Review logs and monitoring tools to identify potential issues before they affect applications • Assist with cluster performance and capacity management, including workload trends, storage growth, cluster sizing, and autoscaling behavior • Analyze query and index performance using MongoDB Atlas monitoring and diagnostic tools • Investigate inefficient queries and application behavior with development teams • Support administration of MongoDB databases, collections, indexes, users, roles, network access controls, and security settings • Assist with MongoDB Atlas backup and restore activities, point-in-time recovery, disaster recovery testing, and recovery validation • Support MongoDB Atlas maintenance and platform changes, including upgrades, version changes, scaling events, and configuration changes • Participate in incident response and production troubleshooting to identify root cause and restore service • Troubleshoot application connectivity and database access issues with development teams, application support, and Cloud Operations • Support database security and access management, including access requests, role assignments, permission changes, and employee termination reviews • Support database change management by reviewing, testing, and documenting approved changes • Evaluate MongoDB Atlas capabilities, automation opportunities, and operational practices • Assist with Redis, Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, and Azure SQL Managed Instance platforms • Document procedures, configurations, troubleshooting steps, recurring support tasks, and incident findings • Build technical knowledge of MongoDB Atlas and related cloud database technologies

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Technology, or a related field; equivalent education and experience may be considered • Five or more years of experience working with database systems, data platforms, or related technical database environments preferred • One or more years of hands-on experience with MongoDB or MongoDB Atlas strongly preferred • Experience with relational database technologies such as Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, or Azure SQL Managed Instance beneficial • Experience with cloud platforms, monitoring tools, or application troubleshooting valuable • Strong understanding of database concepts, including databases, collections or tables, indexes, queries, security, backup, and recovery • Understanding of document-oriented and NoSQL database concepts • Understanding of database performance concepts, including query behavior, indexing, resource utilization, and performance monitoring • Familiarity with cloud-based database platforms such as MongoDB Atlas, Azure SQL, Azure SQL Managed Instance, Amazon Web Services database services, or similar technologies • Familiarity with monitoring and troubleshooting tools; ability to use metrics, logs, and alerts for technical investigations • Basic understanding of cloud networking and application connectivity • Familiarity with authentication, access control, and security concepts • Basic understanding of the software development lifecycle • Familiarity with change management, incident management, and Agile methodologies beneficial • Participate in an on-call rotation and respond to production incidents as needed • Required to complete the MongoDB University MongoDB Atlas Administrator Path within the first three months of employment • Required to successfully complete the MongoDB Atlas Administrator Exam and earn the MongoDB Associate Atlas Administrator certification within the first six months of employment

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • HSA and FSA • Generous earned time off • 401(k) • Student loan repayment • Life insurance and AD&D insurance • Employee assistance program • Employee stock purchase program • Tuition reimbursement • Performance-based incentive pay • Short- and long-term disability • Robust wellness program