To be a successful Mongo Site Reliability Engineer Lead, you should have experience with:

• 10+ years of proven experience as a Principal Level Database Administrator, with a focus on MongoDB and similar database technologies such as Oracle, MS-SQL or DB2.
• Proven track record of implementing and leading site reliability engineer practices across large organizations or complex teams.
• Expert-level knowledge of telemetry, monitoring, and platform observability tooling (e.g., ESAAS, Grafana, Prometheus,) with experience in customizing and scaling these solutions.
• Leadership role in implementing modern DevOps and site reliability engineer practices in enterprise environments.
• Proven expertise in SQL query optimization and database performance tuning at scale.
• Experience with DevOps automation tools such as Code versioning (git), JIRA, Ansible, Containers and Kubernetes (OpenShift), database CI/CD tools and their implementation.
• Experience in implementing MongoDB Container patterns on Kubernetes with the help of a MongoDB operator or a Helm charts.
• Recognized as a MongoDB subject matter expert, serving as the highest level of technical escalation for complex database issues.
• Proven experience in designing and executing database migration strategies at enterprise-scale.
• Exceptional collaboration skills with executives and cross-functional teams.
• Extensive experience working with large, distributed, high-performance, high-availability databases with 24/7 uptime.
• Excellent spoken and written English communication skills.

Additional relevant skills given below are highly valued:

• Working experience in a financial environment
• Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience of working on Data migration tools and software.
• Expert in system configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible for database server configurations.
• Expert expertise with scripting languages (e.g. PowerShell, Python, Bash) for automation/migration tasks.
  • AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification is a plus.