# Platform Database Engineer (MONGO DB) at Valtech

_Remote · Unspecified · Listed 2026-04-02 · Source: RemoteDevWork_

- Location: Colombia - Remote

## Apply

Original listing: https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/valtech/jobs/4831257101
On RemoteDevWork: https://remotedevwork.com/jobs/6274/platform-database-engineer-mongo-db

## Description

**Platform Database Engineer**
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**Location: Colombia – Remote**

**About the Role**
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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.

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**What You Will Do**
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- 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.

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**Minimum Qualifications**
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- 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%.

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**Preferred Qualifications**
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- Experience with Kafka, CDC, and enterprise data integration platforms.
- Familiarity with GitOps practices and infrastructure observability at enterprise scale.