Platform Engineer (Databricks)

Join a major energy organisation's data platform team, via a leading consultancy. You'll champion and evolve their Databricks and Microsoft Fabric estate — owning platform reliability, infrastructure upgrades, and operational excellence across cloud-native data services.

What You'll Own: → Lead the build, maintenance, and upgrade of enterprise Databricks platforms to industry-leading standards → Design and implement Microsoft Fabric infrastructure — ensuring high performance, cost-efficiency, and security compliance → Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible across Azure/AWS environments → Implement CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and Git for continuous platform delivery → Collaborate with Platform Engineers to craft resilient, scalable, and secure data platform solutions → Engage with diverse business stakeholders to deliver operationally sound, customer-centric outcomes → Support the Platform Engineering Manager in delivering systems within operational expenditure budgets

You Must Have:

✅ 2+ years in SysAdmin, Operations, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering managing complex systems

✅ 2+ years hands-on Cloud platform infrastructure experience in Databricks environments (Azure / AWS)

✅ Strong PySpark, Python, and Linux scripting skills in production settings

✅ Proficiency with Terraform and Ansible for provisioning and configuration management

✅ Solid experience with *nix systems (Ubuntu / open-source Linux distributions) and Windows Server / PowerShell

✅ Working knowledge of cloud networking principles and secure platform integration

✅ Clear communication skills — able to translate platform complexity for business stakeholders