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Database Engineer, MongoDB
Location
Canada
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Database Engineer, MongoDB
Valtech
• 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.
Job Requirements
- 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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