AWS Data Engineer National Security & Defence
Sanderson Recruitment Plc
Cheltenham, United Kingdom
2 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
EnglishJob location
Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Data analysis
Batch Processing
Cloud Computing
Configuration Management
Data Architecture
Data Infrastructure
Data Security
Linux
Python
NoSQL
Ansible
Data Streaming
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
Test Driven Development
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Terraform
Data Pipelines
Jenkins
Job description
Join a fast-growing consultancy at the forefront of secure data and cloud infrastructure, delivering AI-ready platforms for some of the UK's most high-impact projects., We're looking for an experienced AWS Data Engineer to help design, build, and maintain a secure, scalable data platform for a government client - supporting real-time and batch processing that underpins critical analytics and decision-making.
What you'll be doing:
- Building, testing, and maintaining robust data pipelines
- Designing logical and physical data models
- Scaling the data platform to meet evolving use cases
- Analysing data flows and improving processing performance
- Ensuring data architecture aligns with agreed standards
- Troubleshooting issues and driving continuous improvement
Requirements
Essential:
- Proven experience building data pipelines
- Strong understanding of data modelling and structures
- Hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, RDS, Lambda, Athena, Glue)
- Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases
- Python or equivalent scripting language
- Experience with test-driven development
- Familiarity with Agile delivery
Desirable:
- CI tooling (Jenkins, Drone)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Configuration management (Ansible, Packer)
- Comfortable working across Linux and Windows environments