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We are seeking a senior-level NoSQL Database Administrator to support the Property Engagement Platform (PEP), a mission-critical, customer-facing system. The role requires a self-directed senior resource who can operate independently in a complex cloud environment. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Couchbase and AWS DynamoDB.
Key Highlights
Support the Property Engagement Platform (PEP)
Hands-on experience with Couchbase and AWS DynamoDB
Self-directed senior resource with complex cloud environment experience
Key Responsibilities
Support 24/7 platforms
Participate in on-call rotations
Incident response, troubleshooting, and post-incident follow-ups
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
Fully remote
12-month contract
U.S. Central Time business hours
Nice to Have
Couchbase cluster management
Amazon DocumentDB or MongoDB-compatible platforms
Datadog for NoSQL monitoring
Job Description
Position: senior level NoSQL Database Administrator
Location: Remote
Duration: 12 Months
Job Description
Role Overview
seeking a senior‑level NoSQL Database Administrator to support the Property Engagement Platform (PEP), a mission‑critical, customer‑facing system. While the NoSQL footprint is smaller than Hilton’s relational environment, this role is high impact due to strict availability, latency, and performance requirements. This is a hands‑on, production‑focused role, not advisory or theoretical.
The position is fully remote, operates on U.S. Central Time, and requires a self‑directed senior resource who can operate independently in a complex cloud environment.
Top Technical Skills To Prioritize (Must‑Have)
- Must have 2-4 years of hands-on-use of Couchbase experience**
- AWS DynamoDB (Senior‑Level, Production Experience)
- Hands‑on operational support of DynamoDB in live environments
- Strong understanding of NoSQL data modeling, access patterns, partitioning, and consistency models
- Experience making tradeoffs between on‑demand vs provisioned throughput, autoscaling, and cost optimization
- DAX (Strong Preference)
- Practical experience supporting DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) in production
- Understanding of cache behavior, performance tuning, failover considerations, and latency‑sensitive workloads
- AWS Cloud Fundamentals
- IAM (least‑privilege access, role‑based permissions)
- CloudWatch monitoring and alerting
- KMS, encryption at rest and in transit
- VPC/networking awareness as it relates to database services
- Infrastructure as Code
- Experience using Terraform (or similar IaC tools) to provision and manage DynamoDB, DAX, and supporting infrastructure
- Comfort working alongside Cloud Engineering / DevOps teams
- Production Operations
- Experience supporting 24/7 platforms
- Participation in on‑call rotations
- Incident response, troubleshooting, and post‑incident follow‑ups
- Ability to document runbooks and operational best practices
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These are not required, but should be flagged as strong positives:
- Couchbase (cluster management, upgrades, XDCR, performance tuning)
- Amazon DocumentDB or MongoDB‑compatible platforms
- Datadog for NoSQL monitoring, alerting, and dashboards
- Background transitioning workloads from relational (MySQL/Postgres) to NoSQL
- Experience supporting high‑scale or multi‑region architectures
This role requires a senior mindset, not just technical skill. Recruiters should screen for:
- Ability to work independently
- Comfortable owning environments end‑to‑end with minimal hand‑holding
- Can prioritize work, identify risks, and take initiative
- Strong communication skills
- Able to clearly explain NoSQL concepts and tradeoffs to application teams
- Comfortable partnering with developers, cloud engineers, and DevOps
- Can translate technical issues into clear, actionable explanations
- Calm under pressure
- Experience supporting production systems where downtime or latency has real impact
- Can troubleshoot complex issues methodically during incidents
- Process‑oriented but pragmatic
- Understands operational rigor (change management, documentation)
- Can design low‑impact deployment and change strategies
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Good signs
- Candidate describes specific DynamoDB use cases, not generic AWS experience
- Can explain why certain access patterns or partition strategies were chosen
- Has owned production incidents and can explain lessons learned
- Comfortable discussing cost vs performance tradeoffs
- Talks about collaboration with application teams, not working in isolation
- Only theoretical knowledge of DynamoDB or NoSQL
- No real on‑call or production ownership experience
- Focuses heavily on relational databases without clear NoSQL depth
- Struggles to explain DAX, caching behavior, or performance tuning
- Needs heavy direction or escalation to solve issues
- Fully remote, U.S.‑based
- Availability during U.S. Central Time business hours
- Willingness to participate in on‑call rotations
- Senior‑level contract resource comfortable with hands‑on delivery
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