AWS Cloud Database Platform Engineer

Talent Octopusventures; Nottingham, City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in the UK is seeking an Engineer to join the Data Platform team. You will support and evolve cloud-based database platforms powering critical services, while developing expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, reliability, and IaC in a modern AWS environment.

You will work with experienced engineers to deliver resilient, secure, and scalable platforms, contributing to design, monitoring, and optimization across the stack.

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.
• Database monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning, back-up and recovery.
• 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

DB Eng

Cloud ops

AWS

MySQL

Aurora

Terraform

Ansible

Linux scripting

Python

Git

Security

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in the UK is seeking an Engineer to join the Data Platform team. You will support and evolve cloud-based database platforms powering critical services, while developing expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, reliability, and IaC in a modern AWS environment.

You will work with experienced engineers to deliver resilient, secure, and scalable platforms, contributing to design, monitoring, and optimization across the stack.