Platform Engineer

Lorien
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English

Job location

Tech stack

Airflow
Computing Platforms
Bash
Big Data
Data as a Services
Data Governance
Data Infrastructure
Data Security
Linux
Elasticsearch
Hadoop
Hadoop Distributed File System
Hive
Python
Ansible
Cloudera
Software Vulnerability Management
System Availability
Spark
Gitlab
Containerization
Data Lake
Kubernetes
Apache Nifi
Data Management
Puppet
Data Pipelines
Docker
Jenkins

Job description

Platform Engineer (Data Platforms)

Location: London

We're looking for a Platform Engineer to build and maintain scalable, secure and high-performance data platforms. You'll play a key role in ensuring reliable data services while working closely with data scientists, analysts and engineering teams. What you'll be doing

  • Building and maintaining scalable data platform infrastructure
  • Ensuring high availability, performance and security of data services
  • Developing and maintaining data pipelines
  • Collaborating with data teams to integrate tools and services
  • Troubleshooting complex platform and data infrastructure issues
  • Supporting cross-team integration with wider systems and applications
  • Driving improvements across platform architecture and design

What we're looking for

Essential:

  • Strong experience in platform engineering/operations (Linux-based)
  • Experience with data platforms or big data environments
  • Understanding of data lake architectures and data governance
  • Strong knowledge of security (encryption, access control, vulnerability management)
  • Experience with Scripting and automation (Python, Bash, Ansible, Puppet)
  • Familiarity with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)

Nice to have:

  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Jenkins)
  • Exposure to data tooling (Airflow, NiFi, Elasticsearch)
  • Experience with Cloudera/Hadoop ecosystems (Spark, Hive, HDFS)

Why join?

  • Work on modern data platforms at scale
  • Collaborate with data scientists and engineering teams
  • Opportunity to shape platform architecture and best practice

If you're passionate about data platforms, automation and scalable infrastructure - apply now.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Requirements

Essential:

  • Strong experience in platform engineering/operations (Linux-based)
  • Experience with data platforms or big data environments
  • Understanding of data lake architectures and data governance
  • Strong knowledge of security (encryption, access control, vulnerability management)
  • Experience with Scripting and automation (Python, Bash, Ansible, Puppet)
  • Familiarity with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)

Nice to have:

  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Jenkins)
  • Exposure to data tooling (Airflow, NiFi, Elasticsearch)
  • Experience with Cloudera/Hadoop ecosystems (Spark, Hive, HDFS)

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