AWS Data Platform Engineer

iO Associates
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
3 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English

Job location

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Agile Methodologies
Airflow
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Confluence
JIRA
Audit Trail
Bash
Cloud Engineering
Continuous Integration
Data as a Services
Directed Acyclic Graph (Directed Graphs)
Information Engineering
Data Infrastructure
Disaster Recovery
Github
Identity and Access Management
Python
Role-Based Access Control
Reliability Engineering
Cloud Services
DataOps
SQL Databases
YAML
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
State Machines
Electronic Medical Records
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Gitlab
Gitlab-ci
Cloudwatch
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Terraform
Docker

Job description

AWS Cloud Data Engineer UK Remote | £60-85K Perm | Active eSC Clearance

Role Overview Experienced Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and optimise cloud data infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines using native cloud services, IaC, orchestration for enterprise data operations.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provision/manage AWS data services: S3, Redshift, Athena, Glue, Lambda, Batch
  • Implement Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • Manage Apache Airflow orchestration workflows
  • Support GitLab CI/CD pipelines + Docker containerisation
  • Monitor S3 security scanning, access patterns, data ingress/egress
  • Support disaster recovery, performance optimisation for data engineering workflows
  • Collaborate with Data Engineering, SRE, Security teams
  • Troubleshoot incidents + maintain RBAC controls

Technical Environment Core Services: S3, Redshift, OpenSearch, Athena, Lambda, Glue, Batch, Step Functions, SQS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EMR Automation: Terraform IaC, Airflow DAGs, GitLab CI/CD (YAML), Docker Security: IAM policies, RBAC, VPC networking Scripting: Python, SQL, Bash

Essential Requirements

  • Hands-on AWS data services (S3/Redshift/Athena/Glue/Lambda)
  • Terraform IaC implementation
  • Airflow orchestration/monitoring
  • GitLab/GitHub Actions CI/CD + Docker
  • Python/SQL/Bash automation
  • AWS security best practices (IAM/RBAC/VPC)
  • Disaster recovery/backup experience
  • ACTIVE eSC clearance mandatory

Desirable

  • AWS Neptune, EKS experience
  • Jira Service Desk, Confluence documentation
  • Data engineering support background
  • Consulting delivery experience

Soft Skills Strong problem-solving, Agile delivery, stakeholder collaboration, technical communication.

Requirements

  • Hands-on AWS data services (S3/Redshift/Athena/Glue/Lambda)
  • Terraform IaC implementation
  • Airflow orchestration/monitoring
  • GitLab/GitHub Actions CI/CD + Docker
  • Python/SQL/Bash automation
  • AWS security best practices (IAM/RBAC/VPC)
  • Disaster recovery/backup experience
  • ACTIVE eSC clearance mandatory

Desirable

  • AWS Neptune, EKS experience
  • Jira Service Desk, Confluence documentation
  • Data engineering support background
  • Consulting delivery experience

Soft Skills Strong problem-solving, Agile delivery, stakeholder collaboration, technical communication.

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