Platform Database Engineer (MONGO DB)

Valtech; Colombia; Presencial; COP 35.000 - 60.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading technology services firm is seeking a Platform Database Engineer to manage MongoDB environments in a cloud ecosystem, ensuring availability and performance. This role requires a strong background in database administration, particularly with MongoDB Atlas, along with experience in AWS, Terraform, and automation tools. The position is remote, entails collaboration across teams, and offers opportunities to lead initiatives and enhance operational excellence.

Formación

• 4+ years of experience in MongoDB administration, specifically with Atlas.
• Strong experience with AWS services like EC2, EKS, and CloudWatch.
• Proficiency in Terraform and GitOps for infrastructure management.
• Solid understanding of observability platforms such as Dynatrace.

Responsabilidades

• Design and optimize MongoDB environments for high availability.
• Implement resiliency and disaster recovery strategies.
• Collaborate with teams to enhance reliability and performance.
• Lead incident responses for database-related issues.

Conocimientos

MongoDB administration

AWS ecosystem

Terraform

CI/CD automation

Linux administration

Python scripting

Communication skills

Herramientas

Dynatrace

Prometheus

GitOps

EKS/Kubernetes

Descripción del empleo

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.

Location

Colombia – Remote

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

Travel may be required.

Preferred Qualifications

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