Job Title: Database Administrator IV
Location: Buffalo, NY (Remote)
Employment Type: Temp (12 Months)
Industry: Banking
Compensation: $74.98/Hour
Schedule: 40 Hours/Week
About the Opportunity:
- We are seeking an experienced Database Administrator (DBA) responsible for managing, administering, securing, and optimizing enterprise database platforms, with a primary focus on MongoDB hosted on Azure.
- The ideal candidate will serve as the subject matter expert for MongoDB architecture, performance tuning, high availability, disaster recovery, and operational support.
Why You'll Love Working Here:
- Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
- Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
- People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
- Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.
Why This Opportunity is Exciting:
This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritises both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.
About Acara Solutions
Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.
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What You'll Do:
- Database Administration
- Administer and support MongoDB databases hosted in Azure environments.
- Design and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure MongoDB architectures.
- Monitor and optimize database performance through indexing, query tuning, and resource management.
- Perform database upgrades, migrations, patching, backup, and recovery activities.
- Implement and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex database issues in production environments.
- Establish monitoring, alerting, and operational standards for MongoDB platforms.
- Ensure compliance with security, audit, and regulatory requirements.
- Application & DevOps Collaboration
- Partner with application development teams utilizing Java and Spring Boot.
- Support database integration for microservices and API-based applications.
- Assist with CI/CD pipeline implementations involving database deployments and schema changes.
- Contribute to automation and Infrastructure-as-Code initiatives.
- Support release management and deployment activities across environments.
What You'll Bring:
- High School Diploma or GED
- Minimum of 8 years RDBMS experience
- Minimum of 8 years Database Administration experience.
- Minimum of 5 years hands-on MongoDB Administration experience.
- Minimum 10 years of experience with:
- MongoDB Atlas
- Replica Sets
- Sharding
- Performance Tuning
- Query Optimization
- Backup & Recovery
- High Availability and Disaster Recovery
- Capacity Planning
- Security, Authentication, and Authorization
- Minimum 10 years of experience in managing MongoDB workloads on Microsoft Azure.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in supporting production-critical database environments.
- Minimum 10 years of experience working simultaneously on multiple projects of a complex nature.
- Minimum 10 years of experience leading large system and RDBMS enhancements, conversions, and production problem resolution.
- Minimum 10 years of experience with leading problem-solving efforts and lead in issue resolution.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in RDBMS project analysis, design, development, troubleshooting and tuning efforts
- Minimum 10 years of experience in CICD, SDLC, Agile
- Minimum 10 years of experience in MongoDB/Cloud /Azurex`
What Sets You Apart:
- Associates Degree
- Bachelor's Degree
- Minimum of 8 years RDBMS experience
- Minimum 4+ years of experience with:
- Java
- Spring Boot
- REST APIs
- Microservices Architecture
- Experience with CI/CD tools and practices:
- Azure DevOps
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- Git
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Scripting and automation experience using Shell, Python, or similar technologies.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience with Bank applications, framework, business needs and RDBMS direction and framework.
- Awareness of the Bank's standards, business plan and strategic objectives with the ability to shape direction.
- Proven mentoring and leadership capabilities in RDBMS project analysis, design, development, troubleshooting and tuning efforts.
- Mastery level understanding of multiple RDBMS skills, tools and functions with advanced knowledge of operating systems.
- Previous experience in banking RDBMS support.
- CAPPM experience.
- Strong project management skills.
- Strong task management skills.
- Good database administration skills, the candidate should possess working knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, and CI/CD practices to effectively collaborate with development teams, support application integrations, and drive automation initiatives.
- Mastery of RDBMS skills, tools, and functions and familiarity.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent analytical skills.
- Excellent decision-making skills.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Strong lateral thinking skills.
- Experience working with others to independently connect disparate ideas into cohesive solutions.
- Excellent presentation skills.
- Ability to understand businesses supported and their terminology.
- Ability to encourage teamwork and serve as a role model when leading and directing others.
- Ability to understand technical, business and operational impacts of a project or problem..
Additional Information:
- Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.
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Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.
Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.
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Jul 14, 2026