Senior MongoDB Database Platform Engineer

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.  Job Description We are seeking an experienced Senior MongoDB Database Platform Engineer to join the Database Engineering team and help build, operate, and modernize our enterprise MongoDB platform. This role will be responsible for the design, implementation, automation, security, performance, high availability, backup and recovery, and operational support of MongoDB environments spanning on-premises infrastructure and MongoDB Atlas Platform as a Service (PaaS). The ideal candidate will have deep MongoDB expertise, strong Linux administration skills, hands-on experience with replica sets, sharded clusters, high availability and disaster recovery, and the ability to partner effectively with application, infrastructure, security, SRE, network, and cloud engineering teams. MongoDB Platform Engineering ·    Design, build, deploy, administer, and support enterprise MongoDB environments across production and non-production landscapes, including on-premises deployments and MongoDB Atlas PaaS. ·    Lead MongoDB installation, configuration, patching, version upgrades, migrations, and lifecycle management activities. ·    Design and operate MongoDB replica sets and sharded clusters, including appropriate topology, storage, networking, and capacity configurations. ·    Define and maintain MongoDB engineering standards, reference architectures, build procedures, operational controls, and best practices. ·    Participate in architecture reviews and advise application teams on data modeling, indexing, scalability, resilience, connectivity, and operational readiness. High Availability and Disaster Recovery ·    Design and support highly available MongoDB solutions using replica sets, elections, read preferences, write concerns, and multi-site or multi-region architectures. ·    Implement and maintain disaster-recovery strategies for both on-premises MongoDB and MongoDB Atlas deployments. ·    Plan and execute failover, recovery, regional resiliency, and disaster-recovery tests. ·    Work with stakeholders to define, validate, and maintain recovery time and recovery point objectives. Backup and Recovery ·    Design, implement, and operate enterprise MongoDB backup and recovery solutions for on-premises and MongoDB Atlas environments. ·    Administer snapshot, continuous backup, point-in-time recovery, retention, restore, and recovery-validation processes using MongoDB-native and enterprise tooling. ·    Conduct regular restore testing and support disaster-recovery exercises to verify recoverability. Performance and Reliability ·    Monitor database availability, capacity, health, replication, storage, and performance across on-premises and MongoDB Atlas environments. ·    Analyze and optimize queries, indexes, aggregation pipelines, schema and data models, connection behavior, and database configurations. ·    Troubleshoot complex production incidents, lead root-cause analysis, and implement preventive actions. ·    Drive database reliability, observability, capacity planning, and operational excellence initiatives. Security and Compliance ·    Implement MongoDB security controls, access-management standards, and least-privilege practices. ·    Manage roles and privileges, authentication, authorization, encryption in transit and at rest, auditing, key management, and credential-management integrations. ·    Configure an