Azure/Cosmos DB Developer

Job Description:

The Mississippi Department of Education is looking for a Azure/Cosmos DB developer who is passionate about technology and wants to deliver real improvements to business users in smart and effective ways, improving their everyday tasks. The successful candidate must have a desire to enhance their skills and willingness to learn.

The candidate will thoroughly evaluate all functionality of the solution before delivering to the customer. They will provide ongoing support and will work to fix issues as they arise. The candidate must have strong written and oral communication skills to be able to document internal processes and build user documentation.

This position will require a qualified Azure/Cosmos DB Developer to take the lead in the following tasks:

• Coordinate with the data team to organize tasks across pipelines
• Designing and implementing data models and data distribution
• Loading data into an Azure Cosmos DB database
• Optimizing and maintaining the solution
• Integrate the solution with other Azure services
• Design, implement, and monitor solutions that consider security, availability, resilience and performance requirements
• Familiar with provisioning and managing resources in Azure
• Able to interpret JSON, read C# or Java code, and use PowerShell

REQUIRED DEGREE
Bachelor's degree

Three (3) references of submitted candidates required. Please provide the following information. Must submit with
resume.

• First/last name of reference
• Title
• Company Name
• Job title of contractor while reporting to this supervisor/manager
• Telephone number
• Email Address (if available)

REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE	# Experience
Experience in designing, implementing, and monitoring cloud-native applications that store and manage data.	5
Experience developing apps for Azure and working with Azure Cosmos DB database technologies.	5
Experience writing SQL queries for the API and be able to create appropriate indexing policies.	3
Experience creating server-side objects with JavaScript.	3

Preference given to candidates with the below skills/experience. Must also meet minimum requirements.

Experience developing apps for Azure and working with Azure Cosmos DB database technologies.

Experience Integrating and maintaining an Azure Cosmos DB solution

Microsoft Certified: Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty

Experience with Common Education Data Standards (CEDS)

Experience with education data