Cloud Database Engineer: AWS, Automation & Resilience

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 and help support and evolve cloud-based database platforms powering critical services in a modern AWS environment.

You will collaborate with experienced engineers to deliver secure, scalable, resilient systems and broaden your expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, and Infrastructure as Code.

Qualifications

• 2 years experience in database engineering, cloud platform operations, or related infrastructure engineering.
• Experience with AWS cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of relational databases (MySQL, Aurora).
• Database monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning, backup and recovery.

Responsibilities

• Operate and evolve highly available cloud database platforms hosted in AWS.
• Design and implement 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 DevOps practices.
• Support backup, recovery and business continuity capabilities.
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies to improve platform performance, stability, and security.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, security teams, and business stakeholders to deliver successful outcomes.

Skills

Database engineering

Cloud operations

Python scripting

Git version control

Security best practices

DevOps practices

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

AWS

MySQL

Aurora

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in the United Kingdom is seeking an Engineer to join the Data Platform team and help support and evolve cloud-based database platforms powering critical services in a modern AWS environment.

You will collaborate with experienced engineers to deliver secure, scalable, resilient systems and broaden your expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, and Infrastructure as Code.