Data Platform Engineer

We have one open position of Senior Data Platform Engineer with one of our client based in Milton Keynes, UK. This is a permanent/fulltime position. Below is the full job description for your reference. Please share your application once you are interested

Role: Data Platform Engineer with Banking Domain

Location: Milton Keynes, UK – Hybrid

Work Mode: 12 Months Fix Term Employment & Permanent

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Data Platform Engineer with strong expertise in infrastructure, cloud platforms, containerization and real-time data streaming. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience building, deploying and supporting scalable data platforms using Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform, Amazon MSK and Amazon Kinesis.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable data platform infrastructure across cloud environments.
• Manage and support Apache Kafka / Amazon MSK clusters, including configuration, monitoring, scaling and performance optimization.
• Work extensively with Amazon Kinesis and real-time data streaming platforms.
• Deploy and manage data platform components using Kubernetes.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure using Terraform / Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Manage platform reliability, availability, scalability and performance.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, logging and troubleshooting for streaming and infrastructure components.
• Work with DevOps, Data Engineering and Cloud teams to build reliable data-platform solutions.
• Troubleshoot issues related to Kafka brokers, topics, partitions, replication, consumer groups and streaming pipelines.
• Implement security, access control and best practices across cloud and data-platform infrastructure.
• Automate platform provisioning, deployment and operational processes.

Mandatory Skills

• Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka.
• Strong experience with Amazon MSK (Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka).
• Good experience with Amazon Kinesis / Kinesis Data Streams.
• Strong Terraform / Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Good understanding of AWS infrastructure and cloud services.
• Experience with real-time data streaming and distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of monitoring, troubleshooting and performance optimisation.
• Experience working in production-scale environments.

Good to Have

• AWS certifications.
• Experience with Docker and CI/CD.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch or similar monitoring tools.
• Experience with Helm and Kubernetes operators.
• Experience with Python, Java or Shell scripting.
• Knowledge of networking, security, IAM and Linux administration.
• Experience with data lake/data platform architecture.

Key Focus

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