Data Engineer

Square One Resources Limited
Sheffield, UK
15 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Compensation
£78,000.0 - £110,500.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Data Analysis Apache HTTP Server Computing Platforms Microsoft Azure Bash Shell Cloud Computing Cloud Database Databases Continuous Integration Information Engineering Data Integration Extract Transform Load (ETL)
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Data Warehousing Elasticsearch Github Identity and Access Management Python (Programming Language) Linux System Administration Log Analysis Nginx Windows PowerShell Ansible Prometheus Kusto Query Language Standard Sql Azure Data Lake Data Streaming Scripting Cloud Platform System Azure Data Factory Delivery Pipeline Grafana Azure Powershell Kubernetes Deployment Automation Real Time Data Apache Kafka Cosmos DB Spark Streaming Terraform Stream Analytics Software Version Control Data Pipelines Serverless Computing Databricks

Job description

  • Design, build and maintain large-scale data pipelines and ETL workflows across enterprise datasets
  • Ingest, provision, and manage raw, enriched, and curated data assets for analytics platforms
  • Improve reliability, scalability and Real Time data ingestion capabilities
  • Support and enhance cloud-based data ingestion infrastructure and platform services
  • Acquire, transport, clean, transform and integrate data from internal and external sources
  • Perform exploratory data analysis and onboard new data sources
  • Develop automated data engineering workflows and optimise data processing pipelines
  • Manage data modelling, data warehousing, data integration and data cataloguing activities
  • Support Real Time analytics and streaming data platforms
  • Contribute to cloud infrastructure engineering, platform operations and production support
  • Implement cloud cost optimisation and platform efficiency improvements
  • Collaborate with engineering, analytics, infrastructure and cybersecurity teams
  • Support DevOps automation, monitoring and operational excellence initiatives
  • Maintain documentation, governance standards and operational procedures

Requirements

  • Strong experience with Azure and Azure DevOps
  • Strong Python and SQL skills, including KQL
  • Experience with Bash, PowerShell and Azure CLI
  • Strong Linux administration and Scripting
  • Experience with GitHub, source control and CI/CD pipelines
  • Understanding of networking, operating systems, storage and infrastructure

Data Engineering

  • Experience designing and maintaining large-scale data pipelines and ETL workflows
  • Strong experience in data acquisition, transport, cleaning and integration
  • Experience with data modelling, data warehousing and data cataloguing
  • Experience with pipeline automation, productionisation and optimisation
  • Experience supporting Real Time analytics and streaming data platforms

Azure Data Platform

  • Azure Data Factory
  • Azure Databricks and Unity Catalog
  • Azure Data Lake and Synapse Analytics
  • Azure Functions and Azure Logic Apps
  • Azure Monitor and Azure Log Analytics
  • Power BI

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • Strong knowledge of Azure IAM, networking, compute, storage, databases, and containers
  • Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform, ARM, Chef or Ansible
  • Experience with cloud cost optimisation
  • Understanding of SRE principles

Streaming & Platform Technologies

  • Experience with Azure Event Hubs, Kafka and Spark Streaming
  • Knowledge of Nginx, Apache, Cosmos DB, Prometheus, Grafana and Elasticsearch

About the company

Square One is acting as both an employment agency and an employment business, and is an equal opportunities recruitment business. Square One embraces diversity and will treat everyone equally. Please see our website for our full diversity statement.

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