Senior AWS DB Architect (Aurora/RDS) | SC Cleared | Hybrid London

Investigo Change Solutions; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 84,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

Investigo Change Solutions in London seeks a Senior Database Administrator with Active SC Clearance to lead design, operation and optimization of critical AWS-based databases, including Aurora, RDS and PostgreSQL. This hands-on role requires strong architecture and production support experience, with a focus on resilience and recoverability.

You will drive performance tuning, data reconciliation, and tooling alignment with Terraform/CloudFormation, CI/CD practices, and production standards.

Qualifications

• Active SC Clearance held by a government agency within the last 6 months.
• Experience leading architecture and delivery of enterprise AWS database solutions.
• Design scalable, resilient database platforms with disaster recovery strategies.
• Strong SQL development and query tuning skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design and delivery of enterprise AWS database solutions using Aurora, RDS and PostgreSQL.
• Design scalable, resilient, and highly available database platforms with DR strategies.
• Drive database performance through SQL development and tuning.
• Manage upgrades, patching, security, monitoring, and backups.
• Collaborate with cloud and development teams on governance and automation.

Skills

Active SC Clearance

AWS Aurora

Amazon RDS

PostgreSQL

SQL performance tuning

Data modelling

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Investigo Change Solutions in London seeks a Senior Database Administrator with Active SC Clearance to lead design, operation and optimization of critical AWS-based databases, including Aurora, RDS and PostgreSQL. This hands-on role requires strong architecture and production support experience, with a focus on resilience and recoverability.

You will drive performance tuning, data reconciliation, and tooling alignment with Terraform/CloudFormation, CI/CD practices, and production standards.