Remote Couchbase DBA: HA Architect & Performance Tuner

Cognizant; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 73,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Paid Time Off

401(k)

Disability Insurance

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a senior Couchbase DBA to support production and non-production clusters remotely. The role demands extensive expertise in Couchbase administration, cluster management, upgrades, security, monitoring, and automation to ensure high availability and performance.

You will design scalable architectures, tune SQL++ (N1QL) queries, implement XDCR and DR, manage backups, and partner with application and cloud teams to optimize data workloads.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Couchbase administration experience.
• Experience managing Couchbase clusters and troubleshooting.
• Experience with upgrades, security, monitoring, and automation.

Responsibilities

• Manage and support Couchbase database clusters across production and non-production environments, ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance.
• Design and implement scalable Couchbase database architectures, including cluster configuration, data modeling, replication, and capacity planning.
• Perform database performance tuning, SQL++ (N1QL) query optimization, indexing, and troubleshooting of database-related issues.
• Manage database backup and recovery, disaster recovery (DR), failover, and Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR).
• Plan and execute Couchbase upgrades, patching, cluster rebalancing, and database maintenance with minimal business disruption.
• Monitor database health, resolve production incidents, conduct root cause analysis (RCA), and implement preventive measures.
• Implement database security standards, including RBAC, encryption, auditing, and compliance requirements.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and cloud teams on database architecture, migrations, automation, and performance optimization initiatives.

Skills

Couchbase DBA

Cluster Mgmt

Troubleshooting

Upgrades

Security

Monitoring

Automation

Architecture

Data Modeling

High Availability

Scalability

SQL++

Indexing

Performance

Tools

SQL++ (N1QL)

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a senior Couchbase DBA to support production and non-production clusters remotely. The role demands extensive expertise in Couchbase administration, cluster management, upgrades, security, monitoring, and automation to ensure high availability and performance.

You will design scalable architectures, tune SQL++ (N1QL) queries, implement XDCR and DR, manage backups, and partner with application and cloud teams to optimize data workloads.