Senior SQL & MongoDB Atlas DBA | Azure SQL Pro

UnitedHealth Group; Cebu City; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions live healthier lives. UnitedHealth Group seeks a skilled database administrator to maintain SQL Server, Azure SQL, and MongoDB environments across production workloads.

You will design, deploy, and optimize database architectures, participate in architecture reviews, and drive automation including AI-assisted solutions, with on-call support and adherence to company policies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Data Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field
• 8+ years of Microsoft SQL Server database administration experience in production environments (2012-2025)
• 2+ years of MongoDB or MongoDB Atlas administration experience in enterprise production environments
• 2+ years of experience in programming using T-SQL and PowerShell for data transformation and infrastructure automation
• Ability to participate in a rotational on-call support

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, and optimize enterprise SQL Server, Azure SQL, MongoDB environments supporting critical business applications
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery readiness, and optimal database performance
• Troubleshoot and resolve database, infrastructure, and application-related issues using native SQL Server, Windows tools, Azure SQL, MongoDB Atlas
• Lead administration and operational ownership of enterprise-scale MongoDB Atlas environments, ensuring high availability, security, scalability, and performance across mission-critical production workloads
• Design, deploy, and manage MongoDB Atlas Projects, Clusters, Private Endpoints, Backup policies, and Disaster Recovery configurations in cloud environments
• Serve as the subject matter expert for MongoDB Atlas architecture, including replica sets, sharding, multi-region deployments, Atlas Search, and cloud-native database services
• Participate in architecture and design reviews, providing expert guidance on database solutions and performance optimization
• Lead database-related projects and drive continuous improvement through automation and adoption of emerging technologies, including AI-driven solutions
• Drive the adoption of AI-assisted database engineering solutions to improve operational efficiency, automate routine administrative tasks, accelerate root cause analysis, and optimize database performance and reliability
• Provide on-call support on a rotational basis and be available during scheduled support windows
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives

Skills

SQL Server DBA

MongoDB Atlas

T-SQL

PowerShell

On-call rotation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

MongoDB Atlas

Azure

Terraform

Ansible

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions live healthier lives. UnitedHealth Group seeks a skilled database administrator to maintain SQL Server, Azure SQL, and MongoDB environments across production workloads.

You will design, deploy, and optimize database architectures, participate in architecture reviews, and drive automation including AI-assisted solutions, with on-call support and adherence to company policies.