Cloud Data Platform Engineer: AWS, Automation & Scale

RELX; Dublin; On-site; EUR 47,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a cloud-first data platform team in Ireland, is seeking an Engineer to help support and evolve cloud-based database platforms powering critical services in a modern AWS environment.

You will work alongside experienced DBAs, Platform Engineers, and Cloud Specialists to deliver secure, scalable solutions, develop expertise in infrastructure as code, automation, and performance engineering.

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

• 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 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

Cloud operations

Linux administration

Python scripting

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Aurora

Terraform

Ansible

Git

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a cloud-first data platform team in Ireland, is seeking an Engineer to help support and evolve cloud-based database platforms powering critical services in a modern AWS environment.

You will work alongside experienced DBAs, Platform Engineers, and Cloud Specialists to deliver secure, scalable solutions, develop expertise in infrastructure as code, automation, and performance engineering.