Data Platform Engineer

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.