Platform Database Engineer

TL;DR

Platform Database Engineer: Designing, deploying, administering, and optimizing MongoDB (Atlas and on‑premise) within a large-scale, cloud-based enterprise ecosystem with an accent on performance, reliability, scalability, and automation. Focus on incident response for database‑related issues, drive root cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventative measures.

Location: Remote

Company

hirify.global is a global company that embraces all things digital, offering advisory, visionary, creative, and tech expertise.

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.
• Lead incident response for database‑related issues, drive root cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventative measures.

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).
• Ability to participate in on‑call rotation and incident response.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kafka, CDC, and enterprise data integration platforms.
• Familiarity with GitOps practices and infrastructure observability at enterprise scale.

Culture & Benefits

• Global team environment.
• Opportunity to work on diverse digital projects.