Job Summary
The Platform Database Engineer is responsible for designing, deploying, administering, and optimizing MongoDB (Atlas and on-premise) databases within a large-scale, cloud-based enterprise ecosystem. The role combines deep database expertise with SRE principles to ensure performance, reliability, scalability, and automation across critical data platforms.
Key Responsibilities
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- 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 through 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 standards.
- Collaborate with application, DevOps, and platform teams to drive continuous improvement in performance and operational excellence.
- Lead incident response for database-related issues, drive root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.
- Mentor and guide technical teams, contributing to documentation, standards, and design reviews.
- Other duties as assigned by manager.
Skill Requirements
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum of 7+ years’ experience as a MongoDB DBA, including 4+ years in MongoDB Atlas administration.
- Strong experience in 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 and scripting (Python, Bash).
- Excellent analytical, communication, and documentation skills.
- Available for on-call rotation and incident response as required.
Other Requirements
CERTIFICATIONS/TRAINING
- MongoDB Certified DBA (preferred).
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer (preferred).