Database Administrator (Contract)
Posted 1 day ago by MRJ Recruitment
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Database Administrator / Database Engineer involves leading a significant cloud and database transformation project in the UK, focusing on migrating legacy MongoDB environments to AWS DocumentDB. This position requires extensive experience in database administration and a strong understanding of NoSQL technologies, particularly within AWS environments. The successful candidate will play a critical role in optimizing and ensuring the performance of the new database architecture. This is a unique opportunity to influence a large-scale migration project in a high-profile setting.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leading the migration of large-scale MongoDB environments into AWS DocumentDB
- Designing and optimising highly available, secure and resilient DocumentDB clusters
- Identifying and resolving MongoDB to DocumentDB compatibility challenges
- Driving database performance tuning, monitoring and optimisation activities
- Supporting migration execution using AWS DMS and associated tooling
- Establishing operational standards, governance and best practice across the database estate
- Working closely with Cloud, DevOps and Engineering teams to deliver a successful transformation programme
Key Skills:
- Extensive experience administering AWS DocumentDB in production environments
- 8+ years as a DBA, Database Engineer or similar database-focused role
- Deep expertise across MongoDB and NoSQL database technologies
- Strong AWS platform knowledge and experience operating cloud-native database services
- Proven experience delivering complex database migration programmes
- Strong understanding of DocumentDB architecture, limitations, compatibility considerations and operational best practices
- Experience with AWS DMS and enterprise-scale migration tooling
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
We're supporting one of the UK's most ambitious cloud and database transformation programmes and currently looking for an experienced Database Administrator / Database Engineer to play a critical role in the project. This isn't a BAU DBA contract. You'll be joining a high-profile programme responsible for migrating a substantial legacy database estate into a modern, AWS-native architecture. At the heart of the project is the migration of complex MongoDB environments into AWS DocumentDB, helping deliver a platform capable of supporting millions of customer interactions at enterprise scale. For experienced database professionals, opportunities to influence a migration of this size and complexity don't come around often.
The Challenge You'll lead the database workstream across a major modernisation programme, owning the migration, optimisation and ongoing performance of critical NoSQL environments. Working alongside Cloud, Platform and Engineering teams, you'll help shape the future-state database architecture while ensuring a seamless transition from legacy MongoDB environments into a secure, resilient and highly scalable AWS ecosystem.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Leading the migration of large-scale MongoDB environments into AWS DocumentDB
- Designing and optimising highly available, secure and resilient DocumentDB clusters
- Identifying and resolving MongoDB to DocumentDB compatibility challenges
- Driving database performance tuning, monitoring and optimisation activities
- Supporting migration execution using AWS DMS and associated tooling
- Establishing operational standards, governance and best practice across the database estate
- Working closely with Cloud, DevOps and Engineering teams to deliver a successful transformation programme
What We're Looking For
- Extensive experience administering AWS DocumentDB in production environments
- 8+ years as a DBA, Database Engineer or similar database-focused role
- Deep expertise across MongoDB and NoSQL database technologies
- Strong AWS platform knowledge and experience operating cloud-native database services
- Proven experience delivering complex database migration programmes
- Strong understanding of DocumentDB architecture, limitations, compatibility considerations and operational best practices
- Experience with AWS DMS and enterprise-scale migration tooling
Next steps: Join one of the largest database migration programmes in the UK this year! Interviews taking place ASAP. Apply now and lets chat