Key Responsibilities
- Own the design, operation, and continuous improvement of database tables powering fan-facing and internal services.
- Create and maintain data models aligned to access patterns (partition/sort keys, GSIs/LSIs, item design, TTL, denormalisation strategies).
- Manage capacity/performance (on-demand vs provisioned, autoscaling, hot partitions, query patterns, latency tuning).
- Drive cost optimisation (table/index efficiency, item sizing, query design, caching patterns, lifecycle/TTL).
- Implement and test resilience & recovery (PITR, backups, restores, multi-region patterns where needed).
- Own security controls (IAM least privilege, KMS encryption, access auditing, secrets management).
- Maintain platform runbooks, operational dashboards, alerting, and incident response processes.
- Own ingestion and processing patterns (eg, webhooks, polling, event streams) and ensure data quality and traceability to support integrations
- Build/operate server-side components around AWS: Lambda, API Gateway, SQS/SNS, EventBridge, Step Functions
- Ensure services meet reliability goals via: observability (CloudWatch logs/metrics/tracing), performance testing, and error budgets
- Implement CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code for repeatable, auditable delivery.
Key Skills & Experience
- Strong hands-on experience with noSQL in production (data modelling, indexes, performance and cost tuning).
- Experience building Back End services using AWS Lambda and/or containerised services, plus API Gateway.
- Event-driven integration experience using SQS/SNS/EventBridge (or equivalent).
- Strong observability and ops mindset: monitoring, alerting, on-call/incident handling, root cause analysis.
- Infrastructure-as-Code experience (eg, Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK).
- Confident coding ability in TypeScript/Node.js, Python, or Java.
- Excellent stakeholder skills and comfort working with an external vendor on technical delivery.
We have a great opportunity with a world leading organisation where you will be provided with all of the support and development to succeed.
A progressive organisation where you can really make a difference.
We have a great opportunity for a Data Engineer on a long term program of work.
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LA International is an award-winning partner of choice for many of the world's most influential companies and government organisations.
Holding Enhanced Government Security Accreditation, we are recognised as the European market leader in the delivery of Security Cleared talent to organisations that demand the very highest levels of security, compliance and assurance.
A multiple award-winning organisation, having secured the prestigious Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade over consecutive years.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace where everyone feels valued and supported.
We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of background or identity, and we encourage candidates who may not meet every listed requirement to still apply.
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