Data Engineer - Contract - 9+ Months

Sheffield
3 weeks ago
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Data Engineer (Contract)
9+ Month Contract based in Sheffield
£395 - £442 per day InsideIR35
BPSS clearance required - candidates must be eligible

My client is seeking a Data Engineer to design and operate large-scale telemetry and observability data pipelines within a modern OpenShift and Kafka ecosystem. This role is central to enabling proactive, Level 4 observability, delivering high-quality metrics, logs, and traces to support platform reliability, operational insight, and automation.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, implement and maintain scalable data pipelines to ingest and process
    OpenShift telemetry (metrics, logs, traces)
  • Stream telemetry through Kafka (producers, topics, schemas) and build resilient
    consumer services for enrichment and transformation
  • Engineer multi-tenant observability data models, ensuring data lineage, quality
    controls and SLAs across streaming layers
  • Integrate processed telemetry into Splunk for dashboards, analytics, alerting and
    operational insights
  • Implement schema management and governance using Avro/Protobuf, including versioning
    and compatibility strategies
  • Build automated validation, replay and backfill mechanisms to ensure data
    reliability and recovery
  • Instrument services using OpenTelemetry, standardising tracing, metrics and
    structured logging
  • Apply LLMs to enhance observability, such as query assistance, anomaly summarisation
    and runbook generation
  • Collaborate with Platform, SRE and Application teams to align telemetry, alerts and
    SLOs
  • Ensure pipelines meet security, compliance and best-practice standards
  • Produce clear documentation covering data flows, schemas, dashboards and operational
    runbooks

    Skills & Experience:
  • Strong hands-on experience building streaming data pipelines with Kafka
    (producers/consumers, schema registry, Kafka Connect, KSQL/KStreams)
  • Experience with OpenShift / Kubernetes telemetry, including OpenTelemetry and
    Prometheus
  • Proven capability integrating telemetry into Splunk
    (HEC, Universal Forwarders, sourcetypes, CIM, dashboards, alerting)
  • Solid data engineering skills in Python (or similar) for ETL/ELT, enrichment and
    validation

    Please apply for immediate interview!

    CBSbutler is operating and advertising as an Employment Agency for permanent positions and as an Employment Business for interim / contract / temporary positions. CBSbutler is an Equal Opportunities employer and we encourage applicants from all backgrounds

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