Data Platform Engineer

Salary: £91,000 - 91,000 per year

Requirements:

• Previous experience in a Data Platform Engineer, Cloud Engineer or similar role
• Strong experience supporting and operating cloud-based data platforms
• Commercial experience with Microsoft Fabric and/or Azure data services
• SQL Server administration and management experience
• Experience handling incidents, problem management and change requests within SLA-driven environments
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
• Ability to work effectively in complex and fast-paced environments
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Desirable: GitHub and GitHub Actions
• Desirable: Terraform and Infrastructure/Platform as Code
• Desirable: Cloud monitoring and observability tooling
• Desirable: Alerting and operational monitoring platforms
• Desirable: Cloud cost management and optimisation
• Desirable: Zero Trust architecture experience

Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain and optimise cloud data platform capabilities
• Manage platform performance, capacity and availability
• Investigate, troubleshoot and resolve platform incidents and service issues
• Conduct root cause analysis and implement preventative measures
• Support the delivery of scalable data solutions across Azure and Microsoft Fabric
• Implement Platform as Code and DataOps best practices
• Monitor platform health and respond proactively to operational issues
• Support analytical workloads and business adoption through Power BI
• Collaborate closely with engineering, architecture and platform teams
• Contribute to continuous improvement of processes, standards and procedures

Technologies:

• Azure
• Cloud
• Fabric
• GitHub
• Support
• Power BI
• SQL
• Terraform

More:

We are looking for an experienced Data Platform Engineer to join a major transformation programme within a large enterprise technology environment. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the development, operation and optimisation of a modern cloud-based data platform, supporting critical business initiatives and delivering scalable data capabilities. We work alongside Data Architects, Data Engineers and other technical specialists to support the ongoing evolution of a cloud data platform built on Microsoft technologies.

last updated 31 week of 2026