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Data Platform Engineer

Summary

Builds and maintains cloud-based data platforms using Microsoft Fabric and Azure services, ensuring SLA-driven reliability and incident response.

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 32 week of 2026

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