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Data Platform Engineer
£60,000 - 100,000
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Walnut House, Blackhill Drive, Wolverton Mill, Milton Keynes
£60,000 - 100,000
Requirements
Must:
- Proven experience in a Data Platform, Cloud Data Engineering, or Data Infrastructure role
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric (including platform configuration and workload management)
- Strong experience managing and optimising SQL Server environments
- Experience implementing and supporting cloud-based data platforms in Microsoft Azure
- Experience working within SLA-driven environments with structured incident, change, and problem management
- Understanding of capacity planning, performance tuning, and operational monitoring
- Ability to work across both legacy and modern cloud-based data environments
- Experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Platform/Infrastructure as Code (desirable)
- Exposure to cloud security best practices including RBAC, identity management, and Zero Trust principles (desirable)
- Experience with alerting, monitoring, and observability tooling (desirable)
- Cloud cost monitoring and optimisation experience (desirable)
- STEM degree or equivalent practical experience (desirable)
Responsibilities
- Support the design and continuous improvement of an enterprise Microsoft Fabric data platform
- Manage and optimise Fabric workloads including lakehouse, warehouse, and associated services
- Administer and maintain SQL Server environments supporting the wider data ecosystem
- Monitor platform performance, capacity utilisation, and cost efficiency
- Conduct root cause analysis across platform incidents and implement preventative improvements
- Contribute to Agile-based delivery of platform enhancements
- Implement and support Platform as Code / Infrastructure as Code approaches
- Enhance technical and financial observability across cloud data services
- Collaborate with internal engineering teams and third-party partners to ensure platform resilience
- Participate in operational support, including occasional out-of-hours coverage
Description
We are a large UK enterprise organization investing heavily in our cloud data capabilities, located in Milton Keynes with a hybrid work model of 1-2 days onsite. We are seeking a Data Platform Engineer to support and evolve our Microsoft Fabric-based data platform. This is a hands-on role that combines platform improvement with operational stability and incident ownership. We offer a competitive salary of up to £50,000 and provide a collaborative environment where you can deepen your expertise in Microsoft Fabric within an enterprise setting.
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