Not authorized on admin to execute command create socket.io. Code 8000. Codename AtlasError

[maciejso]

I can successfully connect and work with a local instance of mongodb.
However, when from local dev machine I change the mongodb connection string to point to Mongodb Atlas I get the following error:

not authorized on admin to execute command { create: "socket.io", capped: true, size: 5242880 } {"name":"MongoError","ok":0,"errmsg":"not authorized on admin to execute command { create: \"socket.io\", capped: true, size: 5242880 }","code":8000,"codeName":"AtlasError"}

The database is hosted on Mongodb Atlas cluster.

The user is assigned a role: atlasAdmin @ admin.

{
    "url": "http://localhost:4567",
    "secret": "somesecret",
    "database": "mongo",
    "mongo": {
        "host": "127.0.0.1",
        "port": 27017,
        "username": "",
        "password": "",
        "database": "",
        "uri": "mongodb+srv://<user>:<password>@somecluster.mongodb.net/somedbname"
    },
    "port": "4567"
}

MongoDb npm package version: 3.2.3

MongoDb version on Atlas: 4.0.8