Data Platform Engineer

£70,000 – £75,000 + 10% bonus + excellent benefits

 

We're looking for a hands-on Data Platform Engineer who enjoys getting stuck into infrastructure, automation and platform engineering.

This isn't a traditional Data Engineering role where you'll spend your time building data pipelines or applications.

Instead, you'll be working on the platform underneath the data, helping manage and evolve a complex Snowflake and Azure ecosystem, building self-service capabilities and automating the way teams provision and use the platform.

The team is increasingly moving towards a DevOps / platform engineering model, so we're looking for someone who enjoys solving technical problems, improving things and getting hands-on.

What you'll be doing

• Managing and developing the Snowflake platform and wider data platform ecosystem.
• Building self-service capabilities that make life easier for engineering and data teams.
• Designing and maintaining Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Automating platform provisioning and operational processes.
• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Working with Azure data services, including Data Factory, Storage/Data Lake and emerging AI services.
• Improving platform reliability, monitoring and observability.
• Troubleshooting infrastructure and platform issues.
• Working closely with engineers, architects and data teams to improve the platform.
• Helping drive engineering standards and best practice from within the team.

What we're looking for

We're looking for someone who is genuinely hands-on and enjoys being close to the technology.

You'll ideally have:

• Around 3+ years' experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure or Data Platform Engineering.
• Strong Terraform / Infrastructure-as-Code experience — we're looking for someone who really knows their Terraform.
• Strong hands-on Azure experience.
• Around 1–2+ years of Snowflake experience, ideally working with the platform itself rather than simply developing applications on Snowflake.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD tooling.
• Experience with Azure data services such as Data Factory and Azure Storage/Data Lake.
• Scripting experience with Python, PowerShell or Bash.
• A genuine interest in automation, self-service and DevOps.
• A relevant HashiCorp Terraform certification would be great, but strong demonstrable Terraform expertise is equally important.

The kind of person we're looking for

You don't need to be a manager or have a big leadership background.

We're much more interested in someone who is a solid hands-on engineer who likes getting into the detail, figuring things out and improving how things work.

If you're a Snowflake administrator who has strong development/IaC skills, a DevOps engineer moving into data platforms, or a Data Engineer who has developed a strong platform engineering skillset, we'd be interested in speaking with you.

There's plenty of opportunity to learn and develop.