Valtech
Platform Database Engineer
Remote Platform Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJul 15, 2026
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
Argentina
Role overview
Platform Database Engineer
Requirements and responsibilities
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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.
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