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Remote
Remote
Summary: The role of Senior AWS & Multi-Database Engineer involves designing, deploying, and maintaining AWS-managed and on-prem/cloud-hosted databases, with a focus on optimizing data infrastructure for performance and reliability. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with AWS services and traditional and NoSQL databases, and will collaborate with engineering and analytics teams to deliver efficient database solutions. Immediate availability is required, and a background check is mandatory. This position is fully remote.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, deploy, and maintain AWS-managed and on-prem/cloud-hosted databases
- Manage RDS clusters, snapshots, and instances, ensuring data integrity, availability, and recovery readiness
- Architect, implement, and maintain database monitoring, automation, and scaling strategies using AWS-native and third-party tools
- Partner with engineering, DevOps, and analytics teams to deliver secure, high performing, and cost-efficient database solutions
- Lead database migrations, upgrades, and disaster recovery planning with minimal downtime
- Implement and optimize backup, replication, and sharding strategies for multi-region and high-throughput workloads
- Continuously assess emerging technologies and propose data modernization and optimization strategies
Key Skills:
- 5-10+ years of experience managing production database systems in AWS and hybrid environments
- Deep hands-on experience with AWS services
- Strong operational and tuning experience with Oracle Database and MongoDB
- Demonstrated knowledge of SQL and NoSQL data modeling, performance tuning, and query optimization
- Experience implementing high availability, replication, and disaster recovery configurations
- Skilled in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) for provisioning and automation
- Familiarity with security best practices, encryption, IAM roles, VPC networking, and data access controls
- Excellent communication and documentation skills with a collaborative mindset
Salary (Rate): £34.50 hourly
City: undetermined
Country: undetermined
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
We have a Contract assignment available with our client.
Role name: Senior AWS & Multi-Database Engineer
Work site: Remote
Start date: Immediate availability.
Background check MANDATORY
Job Description: Role Summary
- We are seeking a Senior AWS & Multi-Database Engineer with deep expertise across
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AWS-managed database services as well as traditional and NoSQL platforms such as
Oracle DB and MongoDB. The ideal candidate is a self-starter, strategic problem solver,
and forward-thinking technologist who thrives on optimizing data infrastructure for scale,
performance, and reliability.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and maintain AWS-managed and on-prem/cloud-hosted databases
including:
o Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora, and Oracle engines)
o Amazon DynamoDB
o Amazon ElastiCache (Redis and Memcached)
o Amazon DocumentDB and MongoDB
o Amazon OpenSearch Service (formerly Elasticsearch Service)
o Standalone Oracle Database environments
- Manage RDS clusters, snapshots, and instances, ensuring data integrity,
availability, and recovery readiness.
- Architect, implement, and maintain database monitoring, automation, and
scaling strategies using AWS-native and third-party tools.
- Partner with engineering, DevOps, and analytics teams to deliver secure,
High performing, and cost-efficient database solutions.
- Lead database migrations, upgrades, and disaster recovery planning with
minimal downtime.
- Implement and optimize backup, replication, and sharding strategies for
multi-region and high-throughput workloads.
- Continuously assess emerging technologies and propose data modernization and
optimization strategies.
Required Qualifications
- 5-10+ years of experience managing production database systems in AWS and
hybrid environments.
- Deep hands-on experience with AWS services:
o aws_rds_db_snapshot, aws_dynamodb, aws_rds_instance, aws_elasticache,
aws_rds_cluster, aws_docdb_cluster, aws_elasticsearch_domain
- Strong operational and tuning experience with Oracle Database and MongoDB.
- Demonstrated knowledge of SQL and NoSQL data modeling, performance tuning,
and query optimization.
- Experience implementing high availability, replication, and disaster recovery
configurations.
- Skilled in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) for provisioning and
automation.
- Familiarity with security best practices encryption, IAM roles, VPC networking,
and data access controls.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills with a collaborative mindset.
Preferred Qualifications
- AWS Certified Database Specialty or AWS Solutions Architect certification.
- Experience with MongoDB and Oracle DB