Cloud Architect

dLocal
Spain, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Montevideo, Barcelona, Madrid
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Teamwork","Problem-solving"]

Senior Cloud Database Administrator focusing on NoSQL and the AWS ecosystem, owning production-grade database services, optimizing DynamoDB workloads, and designing DocumentDB/MongoDB clusters. You will automate operations, improve observability, and collaborate across distributed teams, while on-call duties and incident response are part of the role.

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dLocal
3 years ago

Cloud Architect

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Job Summary

Senior Cloud Database Administrator focusing on NoSQL and the AWS ecosystem, owning production-grade database services, optimizing DynamoDB workloads, and designing DocumentDB/MongoDB clusters. You will automate operations, improve observability, and collaborate across distributed teams, while on-call duties and incident response are part of the role.
Location: Spain, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Montevideo, Barcelona, Madrid
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time · Permanent
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own, operate, and optimize DynamoDB workloads in production, including data modeling, capacity strategy, GSIs/LSIs, TTL, Streams, backup/restore, and multi-region patterns.
  • •Design, deploy, and maintain DocumentDB and MongoDB clusters, including sharding, indexing strategies, backups, and performance tuning.
  • •Leverage AWS services across the data stack (S3, KMS, IAM, CloudWatch, DMS, Lambda) to build reliable, observable, and secure data solutions.
  • •Implement automation-as-code (CLI/SDK) for schema and capacity changes, operational tasks, and guardrails to reduce toil and error.
  • •Establish and improve observability for databases (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, SLOs/alerts) and lead performance/root-cause investigations.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Learning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •Hands-on, senior-level expertise operating DynamoDB in production (table design and single-table modeling, indexes, Streams, backup/restore, and performance/cost optimization).
  • •Experience with AWS MSK or Kafka for event-driven/streaming use cases.
  • •Experience with DocumentDB and/or MongoDB administration (cluster sizing, replication/sharding, indexing, backups, upgrades, performance tuning).
  • •Solid command of AWS cloud fundamentals for data platforms (IAM, KMS encryption, networking basics, S3 patterns, monitoring/alerting with CloudWatch; DMS and Lambda is a plus).
  • •Automation proficiency using Python or JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, the AWS CLI, and SDKs to build repeatable operations and safety checks.
Experience:NoSQLAWSDynamoDBDocumentDBMongoDBKafkaMSK
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationTeamworkProblem-solving
Certifications:AWS Certified Solutions ArchitectAWS Certified Database – Specialty
Languages:English
Tech Stack:DynamoDBDocumentDBMongoDBAWSS3KMSIAMCloudWatchDMSLambdaPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptGoAWS CLITerraformCloudFormationGitOpsECSEKS

Company Brief

dLocal
Provides cross-border payments and financial infrastructure enabling global merchants to collect payments, manage payouts, and reconcile transactions across emerging markets through a unified payments platform.
Industry: Payments
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Montevideo, Uruguay
Founded: 2016
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