Platform Database Engineer

Valtech; Colombia; Presencial; COP 70.000.000 - 90.000.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A global digital services company is seeking a Platform Database Engineer in Colombia to design, deploy, and optimize MongoDB systems in a cloud-based enterprise ecosystem. The ideal candidate will have over 4 years of experience with MongoDB administration, strong AWS knowledge, and skills in Terraform and CI/CD automation. This role also requires collaboration with various teams to enhance operational excellence and spearhead incident responses. Join us to contribute to cutting-edge data architectures and ensure reliability of our critical data platforms.

Formación

• 4+ years of experience as a MongoDB DBA, including 4+ years administering MongoDB Atlas.
• Proficiency in Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD automation, and containerized workloads.
• Strong analytical, communication, and documentation skills are required.

Responsabilidades

• Architect, implement, and maintain MongoDB environments for high availability.
• Design and enforce disaster recovery strategies for database systems.
• Optimize database performance and support application development teams.

Conocimientos

MongoDB administration

AWS ecosystem

Terraform

CI/CD automation

Linux administration

Scripting (Python, Bash)

Observability platforms

Herramientas

MongoDB Atlas

Dynatrace

CloudWatch

Kubernetes (EKS)

Descripción del empleo

Why Valtech? We’re advisors, visionaries, creative and techies. We embrace all things digital. We talk to each other. We have fun. We love our clients. We’re looking ahead • We are global

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.

Preferred Qualifications

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