Azure Cosmos DB Architect & Performance Engineer

Insight Global; Phoenix (AZ); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking an experienced Azure Cosmos DB Developer to design, implement, and support large-scale, mission-critical applications running on Cosmos DB in Azure. You will balance architecture work with hands-on production support, focusing on high availability, throughput, and performance.

The role requires deep expertise in Cosmos DB modeling, partitioning, and global distribution, plus experience with Azure services like Functions, App Services, AKS, Event Hubs, Service Bus, and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering and database development experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on Azure Cosmos DB experience in production environments.
• Strong experience with Cosmos DB data modeling and partitioning strategies.
• Query optimization and performance tuning.
• Throughput management (RU/s optimization).
• Indexing policies and change feed processing.
• Multi-region deployment and global distribution.
• High availability and disaster recovery patterns.
• Monitoring and observability tools.
• Experience with .NET and/or Java-based apps.
• DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC.
• Experience in financial services or regulated industries.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize Azure Cosmos DB solutions for high-volume workloads.
• Define and implement data modeling strategies, partition key design, indexing policies, and data lifecycle management.
• Architect highly available, resilient, and scalable solutions leveraging Cosmos DB best practices.
• Monitor RU consumption, throughput, latency, and overall database performance.
• Troubleshoot production issues, investigate bottlenecks, and implement fixes.
• Support deployments, schema evolution, capacity planning, and incident resolution.
• Partner with application, infrastructure, and architecture teams for Azure service integration.
• Establish disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity strategies.
• Create runbooks, documentation, and engineering standards.
• Provide recommendations on cost optimization, scalability, and platform improvements.

Skills

Cosmos DB

Software engineering

Data modeling

Performance tuning

RU optimization

Multi-region deployment

Cloud architecture

DevOps CI/CD

.NET/Java

Observability

Tools

Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Functions

App Services

AKS

Event Hubs

Service Bus

Application Insights

CI/CD

IaC (Terraform/ARM)

Job description

Insight Global is seeking an experienced Azure Cosmos DB Developer to design, implement, and support large-scale, mission-critical applications running on Cosmos DB in Azure. You will balance architecture work with hands-on production support, focusing on high availability, throughput, and performance.

The role requires deep expertise in Cosmos DB modeling, partitioning, and global distribution, plus experience with Azure services like Functions, App Services, AKS, Event Hubs, Service Bus, and