Cloud Data Store Engineer

Cloud Data Store Engineer - Day-Rate Contract - Fully Remote (From Ireland)

The Cloud Data Infrastructure Specialist collaborates with product development and cloud platform teams to implement, maintain, and enhance cloud-based data solutions including databases, caching systems, and messaging services. This role interfaces regularly with the enterprise technology department to construct, administer, automate, and maintain our AWS cloud ecosystem.

This position requires a meticulous individual with exceptional technical abilities who is passionate about keeping pace with technology advancements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with system architects, developers, and business units to deliver technical solutions and procedures that enhance operational efficiency.
• Create, deploy, operate, and support high-availability database systems, NoSQL repositories, caching frameworks, and messaging platforms that deliver security, scalability, reliability, and performance in AWS environments.
• Deploy and manage AWS data services through infrastructure-as-code methodologies (using Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation, or similar tools).
• Proactively identify opportunities to streamline processes, eliminate redundancies, and reduce system complexity.
• Prioritize and address service requests to achieve performance metrics and service commitments.
• Follow established protocols for incident response, problem resolution, change implementation, and required reporting.

Requirements:

• 3+ years managing high-availability PostgreSQL clusters in cloud environments, preferably AWS RDS or Aurora
• Advanced proficiency with containerization technologies and Kubernetes deployments, especially Amazon EKS
• Demonstrated success implementing infrastructure with Terraform, particularly for database and messaging components
• Practical knowledge of event streaming technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, and/or NATS)
• Expert-level SQL skills
• Python programming proficiency (GoLang experience beneficial)
• Comprehensive understanding of AWS security principles, especially for data services (S3, RDS, Elasticache, MSK, Kinesis, DynamoDB)
• Hands-on experience with GitHub, DataDog, and AWS platforms
• Ability to self-learn and implement diverse open-source technologies without formal instruction
• Experience in distributed team environments with offshore components
• Results-oriented mindset with strong ownership principles

For more information on this please call Brian on 01 6520652 or send updated CV to [email protected]