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# Data Platform Engineer (Contract)

- **Company:** hedgehog lab
- **Location:** Edinburgh, UK
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Continuous Integration, Data Infrastructure, OpenShift, GitHub Copilot, Delivery Pipeline, Snowflake, Kubernetes
- **Published:** July 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=537c9e30cedf448f

## About the Role

* Strong Snowflake platform experience, not just querying it.
 * Solid AWS and container experience, ideally OpenShift or Kubernetes.
 * Real CI/CD experience applied to data workloads.
 * An infrastructure-as-code mindset and a habit of automating the boring parts.
 * Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools like GitHub Copilot as part of your everyday workflow.

Bonus points for experience in a regulated or financial services setting.

## Description

* Build and operate the Snowflake platform on AWS, running on OpenShift.
 * Own CI/CD for data: deployment pipelines, environments, and the tooling that lets data engineers ship safely.
 * Treat infrastructure as code and keep the platform reliable, observable, and secure.
 * Partner with the architect and data engineers to turn design into working platform.


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