Platform Database Engineer (MONGO DB)

Overview

Design, deploy, administer and optimize MongoDB (Atlas and on-premise) in a large-scale, cloud-based enterprise ecosystem, blending database engineering with SRE principles.

What you'll 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.

What you'll need

• 4+ years of experience as a MongoDB DBA.
• 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.

Nice to have

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

Details

• Location: Colombia, remote.
• Travel requirement: less than 10%.