Mid-Level Data Engineer Leeds Contract£400 - £450/day Inside IR35 Are you ready to take your Data Engineering skills to the next level? Elevation Recruitment Group are working with a forward-thinking tech company in Leeds, who is looking for a Data Engineer to help develop and scale large telemetry pipelines across OpenShift and Kafka. This is your chance to work with modern tools, solve meaningful engineering problems, and make a real impact on platform reliability and insight. What you''ll be doing: Building and supporting telemetry pipelines for metrics, logs, and tracesDeveloping Kafka producers and consumers, managing schemas and topicsContributing to resilient streaming and enrichment servicesIntegrating telemetry into Splunk for dashboards and alertingImplementing OpenTelemetry for tracing, metrics, and structured loggingHelping shape schema governance with Avro/ProtobufCollaborating with Platform and SRE teams to improve observability and SLOs Key Skills and Experience: Hands-on Kafka experience (producers/consumers, schema registry)Knowledge of OpenShift/Kubernetes telemetry (Otel, Prometheus)Experience sending data into SplunkStrong Python skills for data processing and validationCurious, collaborative, and eager to tackle complex observability challenges If you''re a Data Engineer ready to make an impact, apply today and let''s get you on the path to challenging, rewarding work.