Data Engineer - Edinburgh

An exciting opportunity for an experienced Data Engineer to work for a large Public Sector organisation in Edinburgh. You will migrate on-prem Postgres databases to AWS ensuring new databases are defined in code and deployed and managed through pipelines by default.

Essential skills:

Significant commercial experience with the following technology:

• 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)

Significant and demonstrable experience in the following areas:

• 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

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy or maternity or age