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Data Platform Engineer

City of London
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Data Platform Engineer
London - Hybrid
£80,000-£90,0000 + 38 Days Holiday + Private Healthcare + Life Assurance + Flexible Working + Pension + Package

Excellent opportunity for a Data-focused Site Reliability Engineer or a Data Platform Engineer with some DevOps principals to join a forward-thinking and high-growth Fintech company offering a hybrid work environment, a great benefits package, and opportunities for further progression!

This company are a bleeding-edge technology business driving innovation across the global financial services sector. Their platform processes vast amounts of real-time and batch data, supporting business critical reporting and analytics. With a strong culture rooted in integrity, creativity, and technical excellence, they've become a trusted partner across a wide range of businesses.

In this role you'll take ownership of the reliability and performance of large-scale date pipelines built on AWS, Apache Flink, Kafka, and Python. You'll play a key role in diagnosing incidents, optimising system behaviour, and ensuring reporting data is delivered on time and without failure.

The ideal candidate will have a strong experience working with streaming and batch data systems, a solid understanding of monitoring a observability, and hands-on experience working with AWS, Apache Flink, Kafka, and Python.

This is a fantastic opportunity to step into a SRE role focused on data reliability in a modern cloud native environment, with full ownership of incident management, architecture, and performance.

The Role:
*Maintaining and monitoring real-time and batch data pipelines using Flink, Kafka, Python, and AWS
*Act as an escalation point for critical data incidents and lead root cause analysis
*Optimising system performance, define SLIs/SLOs, and drive reliability
*Woking closely with various other departments and teams to architect scalable, fault-tolerant data solutions

The Person:
*Experience in a data-focused SRE, Data Platform, or DevOps role
*Strong knowledge of Apache Flink, Kafka, and Python in production environments
*Hands-on AWS experience with AWS (Lambda, EMR, Step Functions, Redshift, etc.)
*Comfortable with monitoring tools, distributed systems debugging, and incident response

Reference Number: BBBH(phone number removed)

To apply for this role or for to be considered for further roles, please click "Apply Now" or contact Tommy Williams at Rise Technical Recruitment.

Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd acts an employment agency for permanent roles and an employment business for temporary roles.

The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications and skill set. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitable candidates

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