Data Engineer - Cloud

A leading research?driven organisation is growing its cloud and data engineering capability and is hiring a Cloud & Data Platform Engineer to support the development, governance and optimisation of its modern Azure?based environment. This role is ideal for someone with early career experience in cloud/data engineering who is ready to take ownership of real platform responsibilities.

The Role You will support the build and optimisation of a scalable data and ML platform, working across Azure, Snowflake and a range of modern engineering tools. The position blends technical platform work with governance responsibilities, ensuring Azure environments remain secure, compliant and cost?efficient.

This is not a senior architecture role - it is hands?on engineering and cloud administration, contributing directly to how the organisation uses its cloud services.

Key Responsibilities Cloud Engineering & Administration

• Act as a global administrator within Azure, supporting identity, governance and platform configuration

• Apply, maintain and improve Azure policies, including cost monitoring, optimisation and resource governance

• Support automation, monitoring and operational upkeep of cloud services

Data Platform Engineering

• Work with Snowflake as part of the core enterprise data platform

• Contribute to data pipeline creation, integrations and ongoing platform health

• Support ML/data workflows using tools such as Databricks, Azure ML, Synapse, MLflow, Airflow, or similar technologies

Collaboration & Platform Support

• Work closely with data engineers, ML practitioners and analysts
• Troubleshoot and resolve cloud platform issues
• Help shape best practices for cloud operations and cost?effective design

• Around 2-3 years' experience in cloud engineering or data engineering
• Strong experience working with Azure (AWS familiarity fine, but Azure must be primary)
• Hands?on experience with Snowflake is a plus
• Familiarity with modern data/ML platforms (Databricks, Azure ML, Synapse, MLflow, Airflow, etc.)
• Experience applying Azure policies, managing cloud governance and monitoring cloud cost efficiency
• Experience acting as an Azure global administrator, overseeing core platform configuration
• Broad engineering mindset - someone who works on platforms, not analysing data

Planet Pharma was founded by a dedicated team of professionals with extensive experience supporting the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and device industries. Our goal is to create an organization that strengthens the employer-employee dynamic by connecting clients with talent. This results in making staffing more personal and creating enduring, valuable relationships. We value communication with our clients and make it our priority to have the hiring process be as fast and successful as possible. We leverage cutting-edge technology and flexible service delivery models that provide efficient, personalized solutions for your business. Our global headquarters is in Northbrook, IL and branch offices are based across the United States and Europe.