Azure Cosmos DB DBA — Performance, Reliability & Cost Optimizer

iQor; Laguna; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

iQor is seeking a highly skilled Azure Cosmos DB Database Administrator (DBA) to manage, optimize, and support enterprise-scale Cosmos DB deployments. The role focuses on high availability, performance, security, and cost efficiency across critical applications.

Responsibilities include monitoring, capacity planning, indexing optimization, DR testing, and DevOps automation with Ansible. The candidate will work with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, and Log Analytics to ensure robust observability.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Azure Cosmos DB.
• Deep understanding of indexing and query optimization.
• RU/s consumption and scaling models.
• Experience with NoSQL data modeling and distributed systems.
• Deep knowledge of Microsoft Azure.
• High availability and failover strategies.
• Networking (VNet, Private Endpoints, NSGs).

Responsibilities

• Manage and support Azure Cosmos DB environments.
• Monitor health, performance, and availability of Cosmos DB accounts, containers, and workloads.
• Plan capacity and throughput (RU/s) and optimize partition keys.
• Ensure SLA adherence for availability, latency, and throughput.
• Analyze query performance and optimize indexing policies and data models.
• Right-size RU/s provisioning and implement autoscale strategies to reduce costs.
• Configure multi-region replication and DR runbooks.
• Implement RBAC and network security controls for Cosmos DB.
• Automate provisioning with Ansible and IaC.
• Develop monitoring scripts and dashboards; support production incidents.

Skills

Azure Cosmos DB

NoSQL data modeling

RU/s scaling

Indexing optimization

Query performance tuning

Azure services

RBAC & identities

Monitoring & observability

Tools

Ansible

Azure Monitor

Dynatrace

Log Analytics

Job description

iQor is seeking a highly skilled Azure Cosmos DB Database Administrator (DBA) to manage, optimize, and support enterprise-scale Cosmos DB deployments. The role focuses on high availability, performance, security, and cost efficiency across critical applications.

Responsibilities include monitoring, capacity planning, indexing optimization, DR testing, and DevOps automation with Ansible. The candidate will work with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, and Log Analytics to ensure robust observability.