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Cloud Architect

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over 3 years ago
Buenos Aires, Argentina or São Paulo, BrazilSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own, operate, and optimize production DynamoDB workloads, including data modeling, capacity strategy, indexes, TTL, Streams, backup and restore, and multi-region patterns.
  • Design, deploy, and maintain relational and NoSQL databases, including sharding, indexing, backups, and performance tuning.
  • Use AWS services to build reliable, observable, secure data solutions and automate schema, capacity, and operational changes through CLI and SDK tooling.
  • Establish database observability with metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, SLOs, and alerts, and lead performance and root-cause investigations.
  • Guide data access patterns, migrations, schema evolution, disaster recovery, chaos and restore testing, and incident reviews.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation and handle emergency off-hours escalations.

Requirements

  • Senior-level hands-on production expertise with DynamoDB, including table design, single-table modeling, indexes, Streams, backup and restore, and performance and cost optimization.
  • Experience with AWS MSK or Kafka for event-driven and streaming use cases.
  • Experience administering DocumentDB and/or MongoDB, including sizing, replication, sharding, indexing, backups, upgrades, and performance tuning.
  • Strong AWS cloud fundamentals for data platforms, including IAM, KMS, networking, S3, CloudWatch, and preferably DMS and Lambda.
  • Proficiency with Python or JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, AWS CLI, and SDKs for operational automation and safety checks.
  • Working knowledge of MySQL/Aurora or PostgreSQL and experience with hybrid data designs.
  • AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect or Database Specialty, or equivalent demonstrable expertise, are preferred.
  • Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation, GitOps, ECS or EKS, cloud-native data security, and multi-region DocumentDB/MongoDB topologies is preferred.
  • Strong English communication, collaboration, troubleshooting, ownership, and continuous-improvement skills.

Benefits

  • Flexible schedules and a flexible work model combining self-managed focus time with in-person collaboration depending on role and location.
  • Fintech industry environment.
  • Referral bonus program.
  • Work from anywhere while traveling for up to three months each year.

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