Platform Database Engineer

Job 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.