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Valtech

Platform Database Engineer (MONGO DB)

Valtech Colombia

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

Nov 02
Remote dba Mid (2-5 yrs) Full-time Colombia
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About the role

The Platform Database Engineer will design, deploy, and optimize MongoDB environments while ensuring high availability and scalability. They will also manage infrastructure-as-code solutions and lead incident response efforts to maintain operational excellence.

What they look for

MongoDB MongoDB Atlas AWS Terraform GitOps Kubernetes EKS Dynatrace Python Bash Linux Administration CI/CD Infrastructure as Code Observability Disaster Recovery

Requirements

Candidates must have at least 4 years of experience as a MongoDB DBA, including expertise with MongoDB Atlas and the AWS ecosystem. Proficiency in Linux administration, scripting, and automation tools like Terraform and GitOps is also required.

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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