Senior Data Platform Engineer
Senior Platform Engineer (Azure)
Manchester or London (Hybrid)
£90,% Bonus Excellent Benefits
Build the Platform That Powers Data
We're hiring a Senior Data Platform Engineer to help design and operate a secure, scalable enterprise data platform supporting advanced analytics and business intelligence.
Important: This is fundamentally a Platform Engineering role.
You'll focus on infrastructure, automation, and platform reliability, rather than building data pipelines.
We do welcome candidates from data engineering backgrounds-provided you bring strong platform engineering experience, particularly with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform), CI/CD, and cloud platform design.
What You'll Be Doing
Manchester or London (Hybrid)
£90,% Bonus Excellent Benefits
Build the Platform That Powers Data
We're hiring a Senior Data Platform Engineer to help design and operate a secure, scalable enterprise data platform supporting advanced analytics and business intelligence.
Important: This is fundamentally a Platform Engineering role.
You'll focus on infrastructure, automation, and platform reliability, rather than building data pipelines.
We do welcome candidates from data engineering backgrounds-provided you bring strong platform engineering experience, particularly with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform), CI/CD, and cloud platform design.
What You'll Be Doing
- Designing and delivering robust, automated Azure & Snowflake platform components
- Building and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) across environments
- Creating and optimising CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions)
- Implementing observability practices (logging, monitoring, alerting)
- Ensuring platform security, scalability, and performance
- Collaborating with architects and senior engineers on platform standards
- Mentoring engineers and promoting engineering best practices
- Strong experience in Platform Engineering (not just data pipeline development)
- Expertise in Azure-based environments and/or Snowflake
- Hands-on experience with Terraform or similar IaC tooling
- Proven ability to build and manage CI/CD pipelines
- Solid understanding of cloud security and observability
- Scripting skills (PowerShell, Bash, Python)
- Strong communicator with experience working across teams
- Platform Engineers working in data environments
- DevOps/Platform Engineers with exposure to data platforms
- Data Engineers who have moved into platform, IaC, or DevOps-focused roles
- £90,% bonus
- Hybrid working (Manchester or London)
- High-impact role in a mission-driven setting
- Opportunity to shape and influence a modern data platform
- Strong engineering culture with a focus on automation and best practice