Couchbase DBA

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 capacity 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 Datadog, identifying performance bottlenecks and availability risks. - Implement security 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. Qualifications - 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 pattern 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 related infrastructure. - Experience supporting 24/7 production platforms and participating in on-call rotations. - Ability to work independently, troubleshoot complex production issues, and communicate clearly with application teams. - Availability to work U.S. Central Time hours in a remote capacity. Nice-to-Have / Strong Plus - Experience with Couchbase (clusters, XDCR, upgrades, performance tuning). - Experience with Amazon DocumentDB or MongoDB-compatible platforms. - Experience with Datadog for NoSQL monitoring, alerting, and dashboarding. - Background transitioning from relational databases (MySQL/Postgres) to NoSQL platforms. - Familiarity with high-scale, multi-region application architectures.