Cloud Database Engineer — AWS & Automation

Nextens; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions 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 across cloud infrastructure, automation, reliability, and Infrastructure as Code in an AWS environment.

You'll collaborate with experienced engineers and stakeholders to deliver resilient, secure, and scalable solutions, monitor performance, and drive improvements in availability and resilience across

Qualifications

• 1-2 years experience in database engineering or cloud platform operations.
• Proficiency with AWS cloud platforms and relational databases.
• Knowledge of database monitoring, troubleshooting, and backup/recovery.
• Experience with Terraform or Ansible for IaC.
• Linux administration and Python scripting skills.
• Version control using Git.
• Understanding security best practices in platform design.

Responsibilities

• Operate and evolve highly available cloud database platforms in AWS.
• Design and implement scalable, resilient, secure systems.
• Investigate and resolve complex technical challenges with senior engineers.
• Monitor and optimize database and platform performance.
• Automate operations using IaC and modern DevOps practices.
• Support backup, recovery and business continuity capabilities.
• Evaluate new technologies to improve performance, stability and security.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, security, and stakeholders.

Skills

AWS cloud platforms

Database engineering

Linux administration

Python scripting

Security best practices

Git version control

Infrastructure as Code

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Git

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions 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 across cloud infrastructure, automation, reliability, and Infrastructure as Code in an AWS environment.

You'll collaborate with experienced engineers and stakeholders to deliver resilient, secure, and scalable solutions, monitor performance, and drive improvements in availability and resilience across