Senior AWS & Multi-Database Engineer - Remote

Senior AWS & Multi-Database Engineer - Remote

Posted Today by Sarum LLC

Negotiable
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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

Detailed Description From Employer:

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