Azure Cosmos Database Engineer

Job Description:

Company: LTI Mindtree

Payroll: Amakshar

Location: Pune, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Coimbatore

Experience Required: 510 Years

Job Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Azure Cosmos DB DBA / Database Engineer to manage, optimize, and support mission-critical cloud database environments. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Azure Cosmos DB administration, MySQL database management, performance optimization, disaster recovery planning, and Azure cloud technologies.

The role requires hands-on experience managing production databases, ensuring high availability, implementing security best practices, and supporting enterprise-scale workloads in Azure environments.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Azure Cosmos DB Administration:

- Provision, configure, and manage Azure Cosmos DB accounts, databases, and containers across multiple subscriptions and regions.

- Administer Cosmos DB Core (SQL API) and other supported APIs based on workload requirements.

- Design and optimize partition keys, indexing policies, TTL configurations, and data models.

- Manage throughput (RU/s), autoscaling, and capacity planning to achieve performance and cost objectives.

- Monitor database performance, latency, availability, and resource utilization.

2. Performance & Optimization:

- Perform query tuning and indexing optimization to improve application performance.

- Analyze query metrics and recommend performance improvements.

- Optimize database configurations based on workload patterns and business requirements.

- Conduct proactive health checks and performance assessments.

3. Monitoring & Support:

- Monitor database health using Azure Monitor, Diagnostic Settings, and Log Analytics.

- Troubleshoot production incidents related to performance, throttling, connectivity, replication, and availability.

- Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and implement preventive measures.

- Provide operational support for critical production environments.

4. Backup, Recovery & High Availability:

- Implement and validate backup and restore strategies.

- Manage multi-region replication, failover, and disaster recovery processes.

- Conduct periodic disaster recovery drills and recovery testing.

- Ensure business continuity and high availability of database environments.

5. Security & Compliance:

- Implement security controls including RBAC, Managed Identities, Private Endpoints, VNet integration, encryption, and auditing.

- Ensure compliance with organizational security standards and best practices.

- Monitor and maintain database access controls and governance policies.

6. Collaboration & Automation:

- Work closely with development, DevOps, and application teams during deployments and migrations.

- Support schema changes, database upgrades, and release activities.

- Develop automation scripts using PowerShell and Azure CLI.

- Contribute to CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) initiatives.

7. Documentation:

- Create and maintain SOPs, runbooks, operational dashboards, and technical documentation.

- Participate in on-call support and planned maintenance activities.

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