AWS Cloud Data Platform Engineer — Scalable, Reliable & Automated

RELX Group; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in Nottingham is seeking an Engineer to join our Data Platform team. You will help operate and evolve cloud-based database platforms hosted in AWS, while developing expertise across cloud infrastructure, automation, reliability, and Infrastructure as Code.

You will collaborate with experienced engineers and stakeholders to deliver resilient, secure, and scalable solutions. The role covers database engineering, monitoring, tuning, backup and recovery, and adopting new

Qualifications

• Experience in database engineering, cloud platform operations, or a related infrastructure engineering discipline.
• Cloud platforms such as AWS.
• Relational database technologies including MySQL and Aurora.
• Infrastructure as Code tools including Terraform and Ansible.
• Linux administration and scripting or programming skills, ideally Python.
• Version control technologies such as Git.
• Security best practices and their practical application in platform design and operations.

Responsibilities

• Help operate and evolve highly available cloud database platforms hosted in AWS.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of scalable, resilient, and secure systems.
• Investigate and resolve complex technical challenges alongside experienced engineers.
• Monitor, analyse, and optimise database and platform performance.
• Automate operational processes using Infrastructure as Code and modern DevOps practices.
• Support backup, recovery and business continuity capabilities.
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies that improve platform performance, stability, and security.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, security teams, and business stakeholders to deliver successful outcomes.

Skills

Python

Git

Linux administration

Cloud platform operations

DevOps practices

Security best practices

Tools

MySQL

Aurora

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in Nottingham is seeking an Engineer to join our Data Platform team. You will help operate and evolve cloud-based database platforms hosted in AWS, while developing expertise across cloud infrastructure, automation, reliability, and Infrastructure as Code.

You will collaborate with experienced engineers and stakeholders to deliver resilient, secure, and scalable solutions. The role covers database engineering, monitoring, tuning, backup and recovery, and adopting new