Senior Data Engineer

Job Title: Senior Data EngineerContract Type: Starting ASAPDuration: 5 monthsLocation: Edinburgh (Hybrid)Rate: £450 per day (Outside IR35)We are seeking a talented Senior Data Engineer to join our client's team in Edinburgh for a 5-month contract. This role offers the opportunity to work on exciting projects involving major version upgrades, migrations, automation, and monitoring improvements in a hybrid environment.Key Responsibilities:

• Lead major version upgrades of on-prem MongoDB and Postgres databases.
• Support development teams with on-prem migrations to AWS RDS.
• Assist in migrating on-prem Grafana instance to containers deployed on OpenShift.
• Collaborate with the Database team on BAU tasks such as upgrading, patching, automation, and monitoring improvements.
• Fix support requests raised by stakeholders and actively participate in defining and prioritizing the database roadmap and backlog.
• Engage with company communities of practice to share knowledge and experience.
• Knowledge sharing with team members and developing documentation and artefacts.
• Ensure existing on-prem estate meets service standards until migration to AWS is completed.
• Support disaster recovery assurance of digital services.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Significant commercial experience with MongoDB, Postgres, AWS IAM, S3, EC2, RDS, Ansible, Typescript, CDK, CloudFormation, SQL, and monitoring solutions.
• Experience in making excellent quality software with other people and working with business stakeholders to deliver value.
• Design and implementation of solutions using service-based and serverless architecture.
• Excellent collaboration, communication, and teamwork skills.
• Experience working in Agile delivery models such as Scrum and/or Kanban.
• Cloud database monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools, and processes.
• Defining infrastructure-as-code and testing disaster recovery procedures.
• Knowledge of data replication and high-availability technology.

If you have a passion for Data Engineering and the required skills and experience, we want to hear from you. Apply now!