Database Engineer (MONGO DB) at Valtech. . Location: Canada - Remote. . . . Platform Database Engineer. . Location:Canada 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 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.. .
Database Engineer (MONGO DB) at Valtech