Data Platform Engineer

Sanderson Plc are currently working alongside our client to recruit a Data Platform Engineer for their analytics team, they will be responsible for the development and assisting on the deployment of a self-service internal developer platform, with a primary focus on following a lean development cycle, this is a hybrid position working 1/2 times a month in their site in Cheshire.

Key Responsibilities;

• Integrating new tools, where suitable, with our existing stack to assist orchestration (GCP Composer/Airflow) and logging, monitoring, and alerting (GCP/DataDog)
• Ensuring that change is managed and delivered to environments in a secure, efficient, and reliable manner
• Developing, maintaining and iteratively improving the internal developer platform
• Maintaining relevant technical documentation
• Delivering platform/software products that are scalable, fault tolerant, highly available and tested
• Conducting code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing sessions
• Driving automation within CICD, infrastructure, management, and configuration
• Ensuring that data is of the highest quality and legality coming into and going out of the cloud data platform

Experience Required;

• Background of maintaining platform onboarding

• Infrastructure as code (terraform/terragrunt)
• Knowledge and experience of either Python or Go programming languages
• Demonstrable experience of containerisation
• Demonstrable experience working with cloud based analytical platform
• Strong understanding of the end-to-end deployment process of data products
• Comfortable working under version control (Git, bitbucket/github/gitlab or similar)