DynamoDB Consultant (DBA) - contract

Amazon DynamoDB NoSQL Database Consultant to join a leading enterprise client's team, working on their next-generation software platform.

As part of the SRE/DBA team, you'll take ownership of designing, implementing and optimising DynamoDB-based solutions for high-performance, scalable applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Design & implement scalable data models using DynamoDB

• Optimise table structures, partition/sort keys for performance & cost-efficiency

• Define and maintain best practices for DynamoDB usage

• Support migrations from other databases to DynamoDB

• Build backup & disaster recovery solutions

• Monitor & optimise performance, capacity, and costs

• Provide technical leadership and mentoring on DynamoDB topics

Experience Required

• Strong background with NoSQL

• Specialist hands-on Amazon DynamoDB experience

• Expertise in partition keys, sort keys, indexes, capacity modes

• Skilled in programming languages (Java, Python, Node.js)

• Experience with AWS SDK/CLI & related AWS services (Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch)

• Strong knowledge of distributed systems

Nice to Have

• AWS Certified Database Specialty

• DynamoDB Streams + Lambda integration

• DynamoDB Global Tables (multi-region)

• DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

• Security best practices (encryption at rest & in transit)

If you're interested, please send your CV along with your rate & availability.

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