Platform Engineer

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.

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

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

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• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Jenkins)
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• Exposure to data tooling (Airflow, NiFi, Elasticsearch)
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• Experience with Cloudera / Hadoop ecosystems (Spark, Hive, HDFS)
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• Work on modern data platforms at scale
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• Collaborate with data scientists and engineering teams
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• Opportunity to shape platform architecture and best practice
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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.