NBS Database Administrator (MongoDB)

Location: Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

Salary: $85,000–$107,500 per year

Company

hirify.global Business Services provides payment technology and education services to higher education institutions, K-12 schools, students, families, and supporters.

What you will do

• Administer and monitor MongoDB Atlas across production, test, and preview environments.
• Analyze query plans, slow operations, index utilization, cluster health, resource usage, storage growth, and autoscaling behavior.
• Manage databases, collections, indexes, users, roles, network access controls, and security settings.
• Support backup, restore, point-in-time recovery, disaster recovery testing, upgrades, scaling events, and configuration changes.
• Participate in incident response, production troubleshooting, connectivity investigations, and root-cause analysis with development, application support, and Cloud Operations teams.
• Support related platforms including Redis, Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, and Azure SQL Managed Instance while documenting procedures and operational findings.

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 with database systems, data platforms, or related technical database environments is preferred.
• At least one year of hands-on MongoDB or MongoDB Atlas experience is strongly preferred, especially in production environments.
• Understanding of database concepts, NoSQL and document-oriented databases, query performance, indexing, monitoring, security, backup, and recovery.
• Familiarity with cloud database platforms, monitoring tools, cloud networking, authentication, access control, software development lifecycle, change management, and incident management.
• Participation in an on-call rotation is required. The MongoDB Atlas Administrator Path must be completed within three months, followed by the MongoDB Atlas Administrator Exam and Associate Atlas Administrator certification within six months.

Nice to have

• Database, cloud, MongoDB, or technology-related certifications.
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, Azure SQL Managed Instance, AWS database services, application troubleshooting, or Agile methodologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative technical environment focused on learning, knowledge sharing, and increasing ownership.
• Medical, dental, vision, HSA, and FSA benefits.
• Generous earned time off, life insurance, disability coverage, employee assistance, and wellness programs.
• 401(k), student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, employee stock purchase program, and performance-based incentive pay.
• Welcoming and respectful equal-opportunity workplace.