Cloud Database Engineer - AWS Automation & IaC

LexisNexis Risk Solutions; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in the United Kingdom is seeking an Engineer to join the Data Platform team. You will support and evolve cloud-based database platforms powering critical services, while building expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, and IaC in AWS.

You will collaborate with platform engineers, DBAs, and security teams to deliver resilient, secure, and scalable solutions, ensuring high availability and performance.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years experience in database engineering or cloud platform operations.
• Experience with AWS and relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Aurora).
• Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure as code.
• Linux administration and Python scripting skills.
• Git for version control and collaboration.
• Security best practices in platform design and operation.

Responsibilities

• Operate and evolve highly available cloud database platforms hosted in AWS.
• Contribute to design and implementation of scalable, secure systems.
• Investigate and resolve complex technical challenges with senior engineers.
• Monitor, analyse, and optimise 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 teams, and stakeholders.

Skills

Database engineering

Cloud operations

Linux admin

Python scripting

Git version control

Security practices

Education

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in the United Kingdom is seeking an Engineer to join the Data Platform team. You will support and evolve cloud-based database platforms powering critical services, while building expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, and IaC in AWS.

You will collaborate with platform engineers, DBAs, and security teams to deliver resilient, secure, and scalable solutions, ensuring high availability and performance.