Platform Engineer

Job Description

Platform Engineer (Data Platforms)

Location: London

We're looking for a Platform Engineer to build and maintain scalable, secure and high-performance data platforms. You'll play a key role in ensuring reliable data services while working closely with data scientists, analysts and engineering teams.

What you'll be doing

• Building and maintaining scalable data platform infrastructure
• Ensuring high availability, performance and security of data services
• Developing and maintaining data pipelines
• Collaborating with data teams to integrate tools and services
• Troubleshooting complex platform and data infrastructure issues
• Supporting cross-team integration with wider systems and applications
• Driving improvements across platform architecture and design

What we're looking for

Essential:

• Strong experience in platform engineering / operations (Linux-based)
• Experience with data platforms or big data environments
• Understanding of data lake architectures and data governance
• Strong knowledge of security (encryption, access control, vulnerability management)
• Experience with scripting and automation (Python, Bash, Ansible, Puppet)
• Familiarity with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)

Nice to have:

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Jenkins)
• Exposure to data tooling (Airflow, NiFi, Elasticsearch)
• Experience with Cloudera / Hadoop ecosystems (Spark, Hive, HDFS)

Why join?

• Work on modern data platforms at scale
• Collaborate with data scientists and engineering teams
• Opportunity to shape platform architecture and best practice

If you're passionate about data platforms, automation and scalable infrastructure - apply now.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.