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# Data Platform Engineer I

- **Company:** Kraken
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Starter
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Continuous Delivery, Data as a Services, Data Infrastructure, Relational Databases, Job Scheduling, Python (Programming Language), Network Security, PostgreSQL, Octopus Deploy, Prometheus, Parquet, Datadog, Circleci, Data Processing, Grafana, Apache Spark, Jupyter, Data Lakes, Kubernetes, Streamlit Framework, Terraform, Docker, Programming Languages
- **Published:** September 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=55e4d3cd83c519dd

## About the Role

* First and foremost, we want our Platform Engineers to have a passion for writing high quality code and building lean processes. It would be helpful to have experience/expertise/knowledge in the following (in rough priority order):
 * AWS
 * Terraform/OpenTofu IAC
 * Postgres
 * CDC systems

Kubernetes (EKS)

 * Python
 * Docker
 * An interest or experience in data/network security would be a nice-to-have
 * Datadog / Grafana / Prometheus
 * Data related products (Airflow, Jupyter, Spark, dbt etc)
 * The projects will be varied and we're looking for someone who can work autonomously and proactively to scope problems and solve and deliver pragmatic solutions

## Description

* Python as our main programming language
 * Terraform for our infrastructure definition
 * Kubernetes for data services and task orchestration
 * Argo CD for application deployments
 * Airflow purely for job scheduling and tracking
 * CircleCI for continuous deployment
 * Parquet and Delta file formats on S3 for data lake storage
 * Postgres / Aurora for our relational databases
 * Spark for data processing
 * dbt for data modelling
 * SparkSQL for analytics
 * Streamlit for data applications

Are you ready for a career with us? We want to ensure you have the right tools and environment to unleash your potential. If you have any accommodation requests, please contact us at inclusion@kraken.tech. We'll do our best to tailor the experience to your needs so you can feel comfortable, confident and be at your best!


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