Platform Engineer

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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Microsoft Azure Bash Shell Big Data Cloud Computing Configuration Management Continuous Integration Data as a Services Information Engineering DevOps Github Monitoring of Systems Python (Programming Language)
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PostgreSQL Linux System Administration SQL Azure Nagios Performance Tuning Role-Based Access Control Azure Data Lake SQL Databases Data Streaming Azure Service Bus Datadog Data Logging Scripting System Availability Delivery Pipeline Gitlab Git Event Driven Architecture Containerization Data Lakes Kubernetes Infrastructure Automation Frameworks Data Management Terraform Splunk Software Version Control Data Pipelines Azure Resource Manager Docker Key Vault Databricks

Job description

Responsibilities

  • We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performing cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure
  • This role is heavily focused on enabling data platforms-including Databricks, Event Hubs, and Azure Storage-through infrastructure-as-code, automation, and modern DevOps practices
  • You will work closely with engineering, data, and platform teams to streamline deployment pipelines, ensure reliability of data services, and support both real-time and batch data workloads
  • Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure solutions using Terraform (Infrastructure-as-Code)
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for applications and data platforms
  • Deploy and support Azure-native data services including Azure Databricks, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Storage (ADLS Gen2, Blob)
  • Manage and optimize SQL-based systems (Azure SQL / PostgreSQL / related platforms)
  • Automate operational tasks using Bash scripting and other scripting tools
  • Administer and maintain Linux-based environments
  • Monitor system performance, reliability, and costs; implement improvements and optimizations
  • Ensure security, compliance, and governance across all Azure resources
  • Work with development and data engineering teams to enable DevOps best practices
  • Troubleshoot production issues and ensure high availability of critical systems
  • Support real-time data pipelines and streaming architectures

Qualifications

  • CI/CD tools (GitLab, GitHub, Azure DevOps, or similar)
  • Strong hands-on experience with: Terraform (mandatory)
  • Knowledge of security best practices in Azure (RBAC, managed identities, Key Vault)
  • Solid experience with Linux system administration
  • Strong Python and Bash scripting skills
  • Proficiency in SQL (querying, performance tuning, data workflows)
  • Infrastructure automation and configuration management
  • Experience with data-centric platforms: Azure Databricks, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Storage (ADLS Gen2 / Blob)
  • Exposure to containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Monitoring, logging, and alerting tools like Datadog, Splunk, etc.
  • Version control systems (Git)
  • Microsoft Azure (core services + networking + security)
  • Development experience with streaming data architectures and event-driven systems
  • Familiarity with data lake / Lakehouse based big data systems and architectures
  • Experience in high-throughput, low-latency environments

Requirements

  • This role is heavily focused on enabling data platforms-including Databricks, Event Hubs, and Azure Storage-through infrastructure-as-code, automation, and modern DevOps practices, * CI/CD tools (GitLab, GitHub, Azure DevOps, or similar)
  • Strong hands-on experience with: Terraform (mandatory)
  • Knowledge of security best practices in Azure (RBAC, managed identities, Key Vault)
  • Solid experience with Linux system administration
  • Strong Python and Bash scripting skills
  • Proficiency in SQL (querying, performance tuning, data workflows)
  • Infrastructure automation and configuration management
  • Experience with data-centric platforms: Azure Databricks, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Storage (ADLS Gen2 / Blob)
  • Exposure to containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Monitoring, logging, and alerting tools like Datadog, Splunk, etc.
  • Version control systems (Git)
  • Microsoft Azure (core services + networking + security)
  • Development experience with streaming data architectures and event-driven systems
  • Familiarity with data lake / Lakehouse based big data systems and architectures
  • Experience in high-throughput, low-latency environments

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