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Valtech

Platform Database Engineer

Valtech Argentina

IT Services and IT Consulting · 5,001-10,000 employees

Nov 02
Remote dba Senior (5-10 yrs) Full-time Argentina
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About the role

The Platform Database Engineer will design, deploy, and optimize MongoDB environments within a large-scale cloud ecosystem. They are responsible for ensuring high availability, security, and performance while implementing infrastructure-as-code and observability solutions.

What they look for

MongoDB MongoDB Atlas AWS Terraform GitOps Kubernetes EKS Dynatrace CloudWatch Linux Python Bash Infrastructure as Code Database Administration SRE CI/CD

Requirements

Candidates must have at least 4 years of experience as a MongoDB DBA, including 4 years with MongoDB Atlas. Proficiency in AWS, Terraform, GitOps, and Linux administration is required, along with strong analytical and documentation skills.

Full description

Platform Database Engineer

Location: Colombia – Remote

About the Role

The Platform Database Engineer is responsible for designing, deploying, administering, and optimizing MongoDB (Atlas and on‑premise) within a large-scale, cloud-based enterprise ecosystem. This role blends deep database engineering expertise with SRE principles to ensure performance, reliability, scalability, and automation across mission‑critical data platforms.

What You Will Do

  • Architect, implement, and maintain MongoDB Atlas and non‑Atlas environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security.
  • Design and enforce resiliency and disaster recovery strategies, including backup, restore, and multi‑region failover.
  • Optimize database performance and query execution to support application development teams throughout all SDLC phases.
  • Develop and manage infrastructure‑as‑code solutions (Terraform, GitOps) for database provisioning and automation.
  • Implement and refine observability and monitoring solutions using Dynatrace, CloudWatch, and MongoDB native telemetry.
  • Manage access control, auditing, and encryption to meet enterprise security and compliance requirements.
  • Collaborate closely with application, DevOps, and platform teams to continuously improve reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
  • Lead incident response for database‑related issues, drive root cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventative measures.
  • Mentor and guide technical teams, contributing to documentation, standards, and design reviews.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 4+ years of experience as a MongoDB DBA, including 4+ years administering MongoDB Atlas.
  • Strong experience with the AWS ecosystem (EC2, EKS, CloudWatch, IAM, KMS, VPC, Lambda).
  • Proficiency in Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD automation, and containerized workloads (EKS/Kubernetes).
  • Experience with Dynatrace, Prometheus, or equivalent observability platforms.
  • Strong Linux administration expertise and scripting skills (Python, Bash).
  • Excellent analytical, communication, and documentation skills.
  • Ability to participate in on‑call rotation and incident response.
  • Travel requirement: <10%.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with Kafka, CDC, and enterprise data integration platforms.
  • Familiarity with GitOps practices and infrastructure observability at enterprise scale.

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