Job Description

About the Role:

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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.

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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.

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Key Responsibilities:

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AWS Database Platform Operation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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- Conduct database restoration validation and disaster recovery drills

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- Support schema migration and production deployment activities

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

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AWS Storage & Data Lake Operations

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

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

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- Implement storage tiering and archival workflows using Glacier and Intelligent Tiering

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- Monitor storage growth, access patterns, and optimize storage costs

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

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

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

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Backup, Recovery & Disaster Recover

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

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- Implement centralized backup governance and retention policies

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

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

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- Conduct periodic recovery and restoration testing

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

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Monitoring, Reliability & Operations

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

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- Develop operational dashboards and automated alerting for critical infrastructure metricss

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

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

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- Participate in on-call support and incident management processes

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- Create operational runbooks, SOPs,



and recovery procedures

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Security, Governance & Compliance

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

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- Manage secrets, credentials, and database authentication mechanisms

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

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- Support audit readiness and operational compliance reporting

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Automation & Cost Optimization

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

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

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- Continuously improve operational efficiency, monitoring coverage, and platform reliability

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Required Skills & Experience:

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Must-Have AWS Services

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- Amazon RDS / Aurora

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- Amazon S3

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- AWS Backup

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- Amazon DynamoDB

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- Amazon Cloud Watch

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- AWS IAM

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- AWS KMS

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Core Technical Skills:

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

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

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

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- Experience troubleshooting database and storage performance issues

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- Knowledge of monitoring, alerting, and operational observability

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- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or Cloud Formation)

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- Understanding of security best practices and governance controls in AWS

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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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