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Platform Database Engineer (MONGO DB) Colombia - Remote 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