Platform Database Engineer (MONGO DB)

Valtech; Colombia; Presencial; COP 220.215.811 - 293.621.081; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A technology consulting company is seeking a Platform Database Engineer in Colombia to oversee MongoDB (Atlas and on-premise) within a cloud-based ecosystem. Responsibilities include architecting database solutions, implementing resiliency strategies, and collaborating with various teams to enhance performance and reliability. The ideal candidate has over 4 years of MongoDB experience, solid AWS knowledge, and proficiency in Terraform and Linux. This role emphasizes operational excellence and incident management.

Formación

• 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, and CI/CD automation.

Responsabilidades

• Architect, implement, and maintain MongoDB Atlas and non‑Atlas environments.
• Design resiliency and disaster recovery strategies.
• Optimize database performance and query execution.

Conocimientos

MongoDB administration

AWS ecosystem

Terraform

Linux administration

Scripting (Python, Bash)

Herramientas

MongoDB Atlas

Dynatrace

Terraform

EKS/Kubernetes

Descripción del empleo

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.