Cloud Data Platform Engineer — AWS, Automation & Reliability

Talent Octopusventures; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Country-specific benefits

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions seeks an Engineer to join the Data Platform team. You will support and evolve cloud‑based database platforms powering critical services, while growing expertise across cloud infrastructure, automation, and Reliability as Code in a modern AWS environment.

You will collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and highly available platforms, contributing to continuous improvement and operational excellence.

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

Database engineering

AWS

MySQL

Aurora

Git

Python

Linux

Security best practices

Monitoring

Backups & recovery

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions seeks an Engineer to join the Data Platform team. You will support and evolve cloud‑based database platforms powering critical services, while growing expertise across cloud infrastructure, automation, and Reliability as Code in a modern AWS environment.

You will collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and highly available platforms, contributing to continuous improvement and operational excellence.