Platform Database Engineer (MONGO DB)

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<p> </p> <div> <h1><strong>Platform Database Engineer</strong></h1> <div class="paragraph-in-scc-markdown-text ___1ngh792 ftgm304 f1iaxwol"><strong>Location: Colombia – Remote</strong></div> <h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2> <div class="paragraph-in-scc-markdown-text ___1ngh792 ftgm304 f1iaxwol">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.</div> <hr> <h2><strong>What You Will Do</strong></h2> <ul> <li class="___ccc16d0 fje8fi8 f1ng9h0j f1bwykku f18jd3zf">Architect, implement, and maintain MongoDB Atlas and non‑Atlas environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security.</li> <li class="___ccc16d0 fje8fi8 f1ng9h0j f1bwykku f18jd3zf">Design and enforce resiliency and disaster recovery strategies, including backup, restore, and multi‑region failover.</li> <li class="___ccc16d0 fje8fi8 f1ng9h0j f1bwykku f18jd3zf">Optimize database performance and query execution to support application development teams throughout all SDLC phases.</li> <li class="___ccc16d0 fje8fi8 f1ng9h0j f1bwykku f18jd3zf">Develop and manage infrastructure‑as‑code solutions (Terraform, GitOps) for database provisioning and automation.</li> <li class="___ccc16d0 fje8fi8 f1ng9h0j f1bwykku f18jd3zf">Implement and refine observability and monitoring solutions using Dynatrace, CloudWatch, and MongoDB native telemetry.</li> <li class="___ccc16d0 fje8fi8 f1ng9h0j f1bwykku f18jd3zf">Manage access control, auditing, and encryption to meet enterprise security and compliance requirements.</li> <li class="___ccc16d0 fje8fi8 f1ng9h0j f1bwykku f18jd3zf">Collaborate closely with application, DevOps, and platform teams to continuously improve reliability, performance, and operational excellence.</li> <li class="___ccc16d0 fje8fi8 f1ng9h0j f1bwykku f18jd3zf">Lead incident response for database‑related issues, drive root cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventative measures.</li> <li class="___ccc16d0 fje8fi8 f1ng9h0j f1bwykku f18jd3zf">Mentor and guide technical teams, contributing to documentation, standards, and design reviews.</li> </ul> <hr> <h2><strong>Minimum Qualifications</strong></h2> <ul> <li class="___ccc16d0 fje8fi8 f1ng9h0j f1bwykku f18jd3zf">4+ years of experience as a MongoDB DBA, including 4+ years administering MongoDB Atlas.</li> <li class="___ccc16d0 fje8fi8 f1ng9h0j f1bwykku f18jd3zf">Strong experience with the AWS ecosystem (EC2, EKS, CloudWatch, IAM, KMS, VPC, Lambda).</li> <li class="___ccc16d0 fje8fi8 f1ng9h0j f1bwykku f18jd3zf">Proficiency in Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD automation, and containerized workloads (EKS/Kubernetes).</li> <li class="___ccc16d0 fje8fi8 f1ng9h0j f1bwykku f18jd3zf">Experience with Dynatrace, Prometheus, or equivalent observability platforms.</li> <li class="___ccc16d0 fje8fi8 f1ng9h0j f1bwykku f18jd3zf">Strong Linux administration expertise and scripting skills (Python, Bash).</li> <li class="___ccc16d0 fje8fi8 f1ng9h0j f1bwykku f18jd3zf">Excellent analytical, communication, and documentation skills.</li> <li class="___ccc16d0 fje8fi8 f1ng9h0j f1bwykku f18jd3zf">Ability to participate in on‑call rotation and incident response.</li> <li class="___ccc16d0 fje8fi8 f1ng9h0j f1bwykku f18jd3zf">Travel requirement: <10%.</li> </ul> <hr> <h2><strong>Preferred Qualifications</strong></h2> <ul> <li class="___ccc16d0 fje8fi8 f1ng9h0j f1bwykku f18jd3zf">Experience with Kafka, CDC, and enterprise data integration platforms.</li> <li class="___ccc16d0 fje8fi8 f1ng9h0j f1bwykku f18jd3zf">Familiarity with GitOps practices and infrastructure observability at enterprise scale.</li> </ul> </div>