AWS Data Engineer x2

• Contract - Outside IR35
• £495 - £500 per day
• Remote working with optional site visits to Edinburgh or Glasgow
• Government

Summary:

A Data Engineer with solid commercial AWS development experience is required to accelerate the move from legacy on-prem databases to new cloud-native solutions. This will be a developer with strong database design and
administration skills, or vice-versa.

The focus is developing shared CDK constructs to be consumed by multiple development teams across the organisation for new and migrated databases. The constructs will embody practical standards for database architecture and quality, allowing centralised assurance.

Skills and Experience:

• AWS IAM, S3, EC2
• Serverless (Lambda)
• Typescript (or modern JavaScript)
• CDK and AWS Development tools including Cloud Formation
• SQL
• RDS and PostgreSQL
• Monitoring solutions (e.g., CloudWatch, Grafana, Kibana)
• Making excellent quality software with other people.
• Working with business stakeholders, to understand the context and to focus on delivering value.
• Design and implementation of solutions using a service-based and serverless architecture.
• Excellent collaboration, communication, and teamwork skills
• Experience working in the Agile delivery models - such as Scrum and/or Kanban frameworks.
• Cloud database monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes
• Defining infrastructure-as-code
• Testing of disaster recovery procedures
• Data replication and high-availability technology