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Azure Cosmos DB Architect
Apolis
🇺🇸 United States
On-site
Mid level
1 month ago
$55 – $60 / hour
- Azure
- Cosmos DB
- Azure Cloud
- Data Modeling
- Disaster Recovery
- Azure Functions
- App Services
- AKS
1 month ago
Job Title: Azure Cosmos DB Architect
Location: Phoenix, AZ / Dallas, TX / Columbus, OH – Onsite
Tax Term (W2, C2C): W2 / C2C
Job Type (Permanent/Contract): Contract
Duration: Long Term
Pay Range: DOE
Description:
We are seeking an experienced Azure Cosmos DB Architect to design, optimize, and support highly scalable Azure Cosmos DB solutions for high-volume enterprise applications. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Cosmos DB, Azure cloud architecture, distributed systems, and related Azure services.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Design and optimize Azure Cosmos DB solutions for high-volume workloads.
- Define data modeling, partitioning, indexing, and data lifecycle strategies.
- Optimize RU consumption, throughput, latency, and database performance.
- Support deployments, schema changes, capacity planning, and production incidents.
- Design high availability, disaster recovery, and multi-region solutions.
- Troubleshoot performance and production issues.
- Integrate Cosmos DB with Azure Functions, App Services, AKS, Event Hubs, Service Bus, and Application Insights.
- Develop operational runbooks, documentation, and engineering standards.
- Recommend scalability and cost optimization improvements.
Required Skills:
- 5+ years of hands-on Azure Cosmos DB experience.
- Strong Cosmos DB data modeling, partitioning, indexing, and query optimization.
- Experience with RU/s optimization and performance tuning.
- Experience with Change Feed, multi-region deployments, and global distribution.
- Strong knowledge of high availability and disaster recovery.
- Experience with Azure cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience with Azure Functions, App Services, AKS, Event Hubs, Service Bus, and Application Insights.
- Strong troubleshooting and communication skills.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of relevant Azure Cosmos DB experience.
- Experience supporting high-volume, always-on enterprise applications.
- Strong documentation and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to work onsite in Phoenix, Dallas, or Columbus.
Azure Cosmos DB Architect · Apolis