About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled AWS Data Platform Engineer ( Exp: 3 - 6 yrs ) to manage, operate, and optimize enterprise-scale AWS data platforms across production environments. The role focuses on ensuring reliability, scalability, security, backup compliance, and operational excellence across relational databases, object storage, data lakes, and analytics services.

The ideal candidate should possess solid operational expertise in Amazon RDS/Aurora, Amazon S3, AWS Backup, and AWS-native analytics platforms, with hands-on experience in performance optimization, disaster recovery, governance, monitoring, and automation.

Key Responsibilities

AWS Database Platform Operation

Manage and operate Amazon RDS and Aurora database environments across development, staging, and production

Configure and maintain Multi-AZ deployments, read replicas, replication strategies, and failover mechanisms

Perform database patching, upgrades, maintenance scheduling, and parameter tuning

Monitor database performance, replication lag, storage utilization, and query efficiency

Troubleshoot SQL performance bottlenecks, deadlocks, connectivity issues, and operational failures

Implement backup, recovery, snapshot management, and Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR) strategies

Conduct database restoration validation and disaster recovery drills

Support schema migration and production deployment activities

Perform capacity planning for compute, storage, IOPS, and throughput requirements

AWS Storage &

- Data Lake Operation s

Manage enterprise-scale Amazon S3 storage environments for application, analytics, and archival workloads

Configure bucket policies, lifecycle policies, replication, versioning, and archival strategies





Implement storage tiering and archival workflows using Glacier and Intelligent Tiering

Monitor storage growth, access patterns, and optimize storage costs

Configure and manage cross-region replication (CRR) and same-region replication (SRR)

Ensure secure access management using IAM policies, bucket policies, VPC endpoints, and encryption controls

Support operational management of data lake environments using AWS Glue, Athena, and Lake Formation

Backup, Recovery &

- Disaster Recover

Configure and manage AWS Backup policies across databases, storage, and related services

Implement centralized backup governance and retention policies

Monitor backup health, recovery points, and backup job success/failure

Design and validate disaster recovery procedures aligned to defined RPO/RTO objectives

Conduct periodic recovery and restoration testing

Manage cross-account and cross-region backup strategies for business continuity

Monitoring, Reliability &

- Operations

Configure monitoring, alerting, and observability using Cloud Watch, Open Search, and related AWS services

Develop operational dashboards and automated alerting for critical infrastructure metricss

Ensure high availability, scalability, reliability, and operational stability of data platform

Troubleshoot production incidents, storage failures, pipeline disruptions, and service degradation





Participate in on-call support and incident management processes

Create operational runbooks, SOPs, and recovery procedures

Security, Governance &

- Compliance

Implement encryption at rest and in transit using AWS KMS and AWS-native security controls

Manage secrets, credentials, and database authentication mechanisms

Enforce governance, access control, backup retention, and compliance standards

Support audit readiness and operational compliance reporting

Automation &

- Cost Optimization

Automate infrastructure provisioning and operational workflows using Terraform, Cloud Formation, Lambda, or scripting too

Optimize database and storage costs through lifecycle management, tiering, reserved capacity, and utilization analysis

Continuously improve operational efficiency, monitoring coverage, and platform reliability

Required Skills &

- Experience:

Must-Have AWS Services

Amazon RDS / Aurora

Amazon S3

AWS Backup

Amazon Dynamo DB

Amazon Cloud Watch

AWS IAM

AWS KMS

Core Technical Skills

Strong understanding of relational database concepts, backup/recovery, replication, and high availability

Experience with S3 lifecycle management, replication, archival, and storage optimization

Hands-on experience in disaster recovery planning and restoration testing for databases

Experience troubleshooting database and storage performance issues

Knowledge of monitoring, alerting, and operational observability

Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or Cloud Formation)

Understanding of security best practices and governance controls in AWS

Note: This is not a Data Engineer position. Candidates with primarily Data Engineer/AWS Data Engineer experience are requested not to apply.

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