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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.
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.
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.
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Other duties as assigned by manager.
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.
CERTIFICATIONS/TRAINING
MongoDB Certified DBA (preferred).
AWS Certified Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer (preferred).
HCL Technologies is a global IT services and consulting company offering digital, engineering, cloud, and AI solutions. Headquartered in Noida, India, it serves clients across industries in over 60 countries.
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