Analytics Solution Engineer - Inside IR35 - Remote
Analytics Solution Engineer - Inside IR35 - Remote
Role Overview
This role sits at the intersection of Data Engineering, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering within the App Reporting team. You will be responsible for maintaining, improving, and operating critical data platforms - primarily Azure Databricks and Palantir Foundry - ensuring they are reliable, scalable, secure, and fully automated.
The role focuses heavily on platform reliability, infrastructure as code, and operational excellence, while also supporting Data Engineers in delivering high-quality analytics pipelines. You will play a key role in incident management, automation of manual processes, and continuous improvement of platform tooling and workflows.
Key ResponsibilitiesPlatform Engineering & Reliability
Maintain and improve the Azure Databricks and Palantir Foundry platforms to ensure reliability, performance, and scalability
Act as a Site Reliability Engineer for the data platforms, ensuring systems run as intended and meet availability expectations
Handle incidents, outages, alerts, and operational issues, including root cause analysis and preventative improvements
Implement and maintain health checks, monitoring, and alerting
DevOps & Automation
Design, implement, and maintain Terraform to automate infrastructure provisioning and management
Own and improve release processes, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation
Manage platform artefacts including clusters, secrets, releases, and configurations
Perform GitHub peer reviews and uphold software ownership and quality standards
Data Engineering Enablement
Provide platform and DevOps support to Data Engineers building pipelines
Enable and support data pipelines within Palantir Foundry and Azure Databricks
Assist with performance optimisation, pipeline reliability, and operational readiness
Analytics Infrastructure & Operations
Build and maintain analytics infrastructure to support reporting and redline initiatives
Improve operational processes across the data platform estate
Support audit requirements through data analysis, operating data restores, and immutable backups
Cloud & Infrastructure Operations
Manage networking, access control, and secrets management
Support and maintain:
Power BI Gateways
Event Hub throughput units
Serverless compute clusters
Reserved VM capacity
Ensure infrastructure meets security, governance, and compliance standards
Skills & Experience
Essential
Strong experience with Azure Databricks
Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
Git and peer review workflows
Python, PySpark, and SQL
Cloud operations within Azure
To apply for this role please submit your CV or contact Dillon Blackburn (see below)
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