Platform Database Engineer

 

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.